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> we are frogs who think the water is just fine. And just like actual frogs that are slowly heated, we will almost certainly jump out of the water if the pot a
by vectorpush 11y ago
> we are frogs who think the water is just fine.
And just like actual frogs that are slowly heated, we will almost certainly jump out of the water if the pot approaches a boil. The apathy stems from the fact that the water is just fine for most citizens; the frogs who are subject to this abuse reside in a completely different pot than the one that most citizens enjoy. I'm not saying I condone surveillance abuse or drug war policies, but the reality is that while your average citizen may be alarmed by the presence of a hot stove, they just can't be bothered to revolt for the sake of an adjacent pot full of drug dealers.
- Estragon 11y agoDo you think a typical person from 1995 would be happy to hear what the state of civil liberties would be in 2015? I would have been shocked.
- vectorpush 11y agoI feel like it's tough to transpose the mindset of 1995 into the zeitgeist of 2015. The average citizen of 1995 was a lot less sensitive to the every day minutia of disparate civil rights flashpoints that culminate to create the picture we have of civil rights today. There is also a lot more deliberately controversial political content produced by today's media which sets up an environment where there's something of an implicit expectation that everyone will or should have a "stance" on every political issue. The world of 2015 is one where every average citizen has their own set of pet grievances that are wont to implicate the government in a violation of civil rights. Can you imagine how the citizens of 1995 would have reacted to a Snowden of the time? It'd be a complete non-event.