Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
This is one of the most important cultural shifts of our times. We are walking towards totalitarianism. Our rights to privacy are indisputably eroding, and efforts to monitor us are ever-increasing.
IMHO we need to quash the divisions that are constructed for us and start discussing what is going on. Liberals and conservatives should start looking out for one another; we are all frogs in the same pot.
–
briandmyers · 4279 days ago · link ·
Agreed. Also, I feel that the the threats to ordinary justice are even more disturbing than threats to privacy. When recent US presidents started asserting their right to murder foreigners at will, there was hardly any outcry. Now that they are claiming the right to do that to American citizens too, there is a mild reaction, but really, who didn't see that coming? I am old enough to remember when it was a shock and a disgrace that Kennedy and the CIA attempted to assassinate Castro. Nowadays, it's "meh, you cross America, you better watch your ass". Imagine the outcry if (say) Germany started killing foreigners on foreign soil. But for some reason it's OK for America to do exactly the same thing?
–
TBH I put most of the blame on our media. Most people don't listen to journalists, but instead tune into highly paid talking heads that parrot a very narrow and edited slice of what media conglomerates think sells best. It's been going on for years now. I haven't watched cable news for years, but now when I encounter it, it's shocking.
I'd like to see a network with journalistic integrity launched. It is such a rarity, that I think it would do quite well. Quality news would sell.
thenewgreen · 4279 days ago · link ·
- Imagine the outcry if (say) Germany started killing foreigners on foreign soil. But for some reason it's OK for America to do exactly the same thing?