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It was a pleasure reading your entry, because it is exactly how I feel about privacy. Actually, the whole process, or movement, that different governments prom

by iagooar 13y ago

It was a pleasure reading your entry, because it is exactly how I feel about privacy. Actually, the whole process, or movement, that different governments promote is making us believe that if we want privacy, we want to do "bad stuff". This may not seem obvious to people, but I see clearly that just about 100 years ago, privacy was "sacred" and untouchable, while nowadays it is becoming something to be ashamed of. We are slowly becoming an Orwellian society, and I think the scariest thing is that our children, or maybe their children, will grow up in that kind of world and see it completely normal.

morphar 13y ago
Good to know that I am not the only one concerned about privacy, without actually having anything to hide! :) I agree with you totally! I am trying to raise my kid (soon kids), with a healthy scepticism towards authorities and authoritative sources of anything (science, history, anything knowledge)... I hope that will help them think for themselves and hopefully become sensitive towards governments and how much authority they should be allowed to have. I think we are at a dangerous point in time, where governments like US and Denmark where I live, are coming a bit to close to no longer being governing but actually controlling. The idea of representatives of the people is dead - it is now the least worst choice of a few people sponsored by a tiny group of people, which is very often heads of large corporations... That makes "the peoples" interests waaaay less interesting, than the corporations. With a tiny group of people shifting "the power" around amongst themselves, they're bound to get a distorted view of what "real" people are concerned about and what rights they should have. I think there is a tendency to generalize so much, that it becomes default to look at a population as a big non-feeling group with no real individuality and no real individual rights.

by iagooar 13y ago

morphar 13y ago

Good to know that I am not the only one concerned about privacy, without actually having anything to hide! :) I agree with you totally! I am trying to raise my kid (soon kids), with a healthy scepticism towards authorities and authoritative sources of anything (science, history, anything knowledge)... I hope that will help them think for themselves and hopefully become sensitive towards governments and how much authority they should be allowed to have. I think we are at a dangerous point in time, where governments like US and Denmark where I live, are coming a bit to close to no longer being governing but actually controlling. The idea of representatives of the people is dead - it is now the least worst choice of a few people sponsored by a tiny group of people, which is very often heads of large corporations... That makes "the peoples" interests waaaay less interesting, than the corporations. With a tiny group of people shifting "the power" around amongst themselves, they're bound to get a distorted view of what "real" people are concerned about and what rights they should have. I think there is a tendency to generalize so much, that it becomes default to look at a population as a big non-feeling group with no real individuality and no real individual rights.