| Once the invasion of privacy proved monetarily and politically profitable and legally a gray area its fate was sealed. In a sense the age of moving fast and breaking things helped us see what the system is made of: What sort of moral reflexes exist, how quickly they get mobilized, where this happens institutionally, geographically and socially etc. Needless to say that it has been the bleakest of revelations. What is deeply ironic though, is that the system is in self-destruct mode. The privacy destruction happens in parallel with the annihilation of ownership / copyright that is discussed in other threads. A new "world order" is instituted, uglier and poorer. The prosperity and social stability of the West has been based on instituting, respecting property rights, privacy, individual agency as the bedrock of liberal market democracy. It turned out the pillars on which the edifice was standing have rotted over time and nobody knew. |