Surveilling populations vies with watching people undress. A saccharine message put forward is biometric cameras, “smart” streetlight cameras—which record audio—and drones are essential to ease criminal activity. Therefore, these hi-tech systems enhance overall safety, or asylum.
Nay, the record of history shows that race [South Africa], social class [USSR], inoculation status [Canada], just to name a sprinkling of hollow criterions, has signified criminal. As regards political leanings, in 2023, Coutts Bank denied a British representative use of banking facilities over his “beliefs and values.” In Ukraine, officers detained an American citizen who spoke in opposition to the regime, and this person died in a Ukrainian prison in 2024. (Alas, the fight for democracy in Ukraine continues). During the catholic—Catholic—corona crusade, “civil servants” suggested that those who demurred at medical infusions of genetic material were villainous.
Sure, the term criminal is adaptable since control is salient for leaders and followers alike. Indeed, mediocrities delight in their virtual assistants, mobile phones, drones, Ring doorbells, et cetera, proving to be mere microcosms of the state and so employ machinery to pinpoint, scrutinize perceived exigencies. Imagine if the erstwhile Nazi regime had possessed surveillance capabilities—to include biometrics apparatus—that are fast becoming the vogue in every nation, and you’ll appreciate the future.
Individuals slip in and out of reality by caprice. With acceleration, virtual reality has more appeal, for it offers a level of control, albeit illusory, which in real life dissipates proportionate to the degree souls glorify certain technological devices.
Society’s definition of democracy is peripatetic. Thus, when constrained, masses abruptly abjure notions of democracy for the dream of safety. The multitude will affirm that anything worth having involves risk, yet freedom is another matter in a different realm. Hence, scandalous confusion as freedom equals surveillance and vice versa.
Peace may be the desire of humanity, but certainly not the will.
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