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People who grew up under relatively benign surveillance may not have the imagination or experience to see what happens when all that data is used maliciously. S

• SkyMarshal 13y ago
  Very much this (awesome reddit comment too). In OP's generation there seems to be an "I don't read" mentality among some. I don't know how pervasive it is, I only have anecdotal evidence, but if it's a thing, it's bad news. People who don't read extensively are much more susceptible to accepting their current reality, no matter how bad it may have become in even a single generation, because they have no frame of reference that extends beyond their own limited observations. A similar analogy is Paul Graham's "Blub Paradox" [1] - programmers who program with "Blub", at low end of the language power scale, can't recognize more powerful languages up the scale b/c they have no frame of reference for identifying and understanding the features that make them better. In both cases, it's all about realizing how limited and narrow your default frame of reference is, and expanding it by broad learning - spanning long time periods, or spanning the programming language scale, as the case may be. [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
  • endgame 13y ago
    Just to clarify: that wasn't me in the reddit comment.