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by cagey
4839 days ago
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> they've been conditioned by film and television to believe that the government has those powers and uses them routinely. My unscientific observation (I don't watch these but my SO used to) is that major (USA) network "crime drama" TV shows (fictional) such as NCIS* depict, in every episode, a fully omniscient surveillance state in action [edit: and as a perfectly normal state of affairs]. My suspicion is that the underlying purpose of same is to condition the viewing citizenry of the fact that such exists and is a normal state of affairs, so there will be no problem with the preconditioned citizenry when such becomes real (if it hasn't already). |
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