I always find it amazing how much
liberty and personal freedom we willingly give away.Are we being conditioned to just voluntarily
give our information to the government and its agencies?The Social Security Number was not created to
be used as a national ID, but look what it has become.How often are you asked for your “social”
when applying for work, a gun, a checking account, credit card, or a perks card
for your favorite grocery store? In some states the SSN is your driver’s
license number.
As the
attached youtube video shows, we are surrendering out private lives to the all
seeing and knowing internet, which in turn shares your information with
everyone else.Aaron Russo in his film, America: Freedom to Fascism, has a scene
were a man orders pizza over the telephone.Once he gives his credit card information to the girl at the pizza shop
all of his information is available to be seen.She suggests tofu pizza because he is overweight and tells him his card
is declined due to a vacation he has just taken.While it is a funny piece, it is also very disturbing.
How far
away are we from Philip K. Dick’s Minority
Report world?The internet can send
us the pop-up we may be interested in based on our usage; how soon until stores
can identify us by a retina scan and personally inform us of the sales inside
that we are interested in?Are pre-crime units just around the
corner?As we concede our rights for
safety, it seems that it is closer than we think.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may
be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their
own conscience.”
