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My biggest pet peeve in this whole thing is really the lack of foresight of these governments that want to create this dystopian future. Think about it for a s
by rdm_blackhole 1y ago
My biggest pet peeve in this whole thing is really the lack of foresight of these governments that want to create this dystopian future.
Think about it for a second, they would be creating a massive machinery intended to spy on all their citizens for dubious reasons, not thinking that if one day a madman/madwoman gets in power, they would have provided them with a tool that would enable this person to track and hunt down all potential political opponents.
By building this, they are effectively facilitating future political purges.
Hitler and Stalin would never have dreamed to have such surveillance capabilities.
- kaoD 1y agoThey know. It's just their smugness telling them they will always be in power since they're the good guys and good guys prevail.
- aaronbaugher 1y agoThey think they're far too clever to let that ever happen, so the tyranny (not that they'd call it that) of technocratic managerialism that they're pushing will never let other tyrants rise again. They also tend to buy into an "end of history" thinking that says the Smart People have figured out how to solve all the problems, so the only challenge is getting the dumb citizens to go along with it, or keeping them sated and sedated until it's too late for them to get in the way.
- cbeach 1y agoBrilliantly worded comment. I'm going to steal those phrases
- fuzzfactor 1y agoSometimes what passes for "leadership" is "kind of" disappointing. And when too many blind followers arise it can really get out of hand. Exponential disappointment can be one ofthe most ominous things . . .
- gitaarik 1y agoWell, I think they're implementing it because they are the mad men!