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by justanotheranon
2130 days ago
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there is no techinical solution to mass surveillance. Pandora's Box can never be closed and the average person will never throw away their cell phone and stop giving their Patterns of Life data to various Internet megacorps.
Likewise, there is no political solution. Given the Patriot Act was so well designed to deceive is about mass surveillance, which we never would have voted for if we the governed were asked for our consent, it is therefore cosmically improbably that any politicians will be strong enough to cast the Deep State's One Ring into Mt Doom. that leaves only one option. acceleration. i have slowly become convinced that the only solution to mass surveillance is to expand it as fast and as large as possible, in order to trigger a "Sum of All Fears" scale event, a spying scandal that eclipses all prior scandals, and which outrages hundreds of millions of people like never before. faith in govt and Democracy itself will be shaken and may not survive. that is merely the cost of restoring equillibrium and justice. |
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Yep. I've spent most of my life searching for solutions that don't require that level of excess, but the problem is, it is a feature of human cognition that we don't learn until we are forced to (more precisely, we do not fix social, economic and political problems until something so extreme comes along that we can't ignore them anymore, usually due to some version of a threat to survival). E.g. - consequences.
The alternative is the boiled frog, and yet another feature of human cognition is the ability to normalize our conditions. If something goes on long enough, it'll simply become "the way things are" and go unchallenged. You avoid this by flashing quickly to the worst outcome so people realize that it exists.
This is a long way of saying "Humans perceive consequences on short timescales, not long ones" and it really, really sucks.