Seth's blog today speaks of cameras and mirrors. And of the sudden presence of tech power to document everything we do. http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451b31569e20192aa6287ad970d
As usual, Seth presents remarks and then leaves us to ruminate.
I have been shy of cameras..yes I am the one with the pained facial presentation in myriad photos. And then I delete everything I can that puts me in less than a flattering light.
But it is not vanity that makes me afraid. In a way, I am under-shy about expressing myself, and have been even cavalier about running my mouth, as they say, about things. I have always pretty much felt as if I was entitled to my opinions and also perfectly free to share them, even when over-zealous, or even when tipsy!
IF the government is spying on me, or worse, if the government is the bad guy and is catagorizing me with a group that later gets to be castigated and harmed, then I am a babbling chicken just waiting to be grabbed for slaughter. There is a devastating video going the rounds that shows dispassionate chicken processors taking these live bodies up in a huge tank-like machine and making them supermarket products. The machine and the processor people are as one: without emotion or soul. The live animals are seen as product, nothing more. Not even the processors will receive chicken! (One wonders if they ever eat chicken after working there.)
Seth's blog brings me to thinking how this mindlessness happens, and how ineffably it turns the corner into tyranny. What do others think? Shall we be afraid yet? Or is it too late?
As usual, Seth presents remarks and then leaves us to ruminate.
I have been shy of cameras..yes I am the one with the pained facial presentation in myriad photos. And then I delete everything I can that puts me in less than a flattering light.
But it is not vanity that makes me afraid. In a way, I am under-shy about expressing myself, and have been even cavalier about running my mouth, as they say, about things. I have always pretty much felt as if I was entitled to my opinions and also perfectly free to share them, even when over-zealous, or even when tipsy!
IF the government is spying on me, or worse, if the government is the bad guy and is catagorizing me with a group that later gets to be castigated and harmed, then I am a babbling chicken just waiting to be grabbed for slaughter. There is a devastating video going the rounds that shows dispassionate chicken processors taking these live bodies up in a huge tank-like machine and making them supermarket products. The machine and the processor people are as one: without emotion or soul. The live animals are seen as product, nothing more. Not even the processors will receive chicken! (One wonders if they ever eat chicken after working there.)
Seth's blog brings me to thinking how this mindlessness happens, and how ineffably it turns the corner into tyranny. What do others think? Shall we be afraid yet? Or is it too late?
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