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>When you were a child, would any of you have believed.... Actually, yeah. I read 1984 at age 10, and somehow grokked enough about what that would mean. >Like

>When you were a child, would any of you have believed.... Actually, yeah. I read 1984 at age 10, and somehow grokked enough about what that would mean. >Like a cheap sci-fi novel has become reality? Like Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, with a little Kafka thrown in. I'm not sure "cheap" is the word I'd use here. >I for one am more scared, appaled by what has been bubbling to the surface every week, almost every day since Snowden. I'm glad that I'm not 'crazy' anymore. It's a good thing that it is out in the open now. It was more frightening when nearly everyone ignored it.

swombat 13y ago
More than a little Kafka. The secret laws interpreted by secret courts with secret opinions being used to secretly murder citizens "legally" without the slightest hint of a trial is solid Kafka. The innocent people held in high-security prison indefinitely on secret charges because it's too difficult to work out a legal framework to set them free are also solid Kafka.
einhverfr 13y ago
> I'm glad that I'm not 'crazy' anymore. Someone called me 'crazy' today for mentioning the Guardian hard drive story. I wonder.... how many people have blinders on :-( The thing is I am not convinced the technology is actually good enough to make sense of what they get. They have to decide to look at someone first. This means that it is a way to discredit and jail or worse people who become sufficiently inconvenient to the powers that be.