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Or is it not..
Who turned our homes into fortresses of secrets?
Anyone who would tell a bully you can't do that to a person.
Anyone who would seek to bully other people who are not abusing people like consensual gay couples or people wanting to be left alone when bully governments intrude into their homes in the name of religion or reactions..
Every bully knows if the culture at large won't go along with beating kids, or rounding up gays,he has to get the people to stay out of his'business.and they have to get people to look the other way,and stand by.He has to LIE about his own actions and motives and make excuses and invent scapegoats until people just don't get involved.
In this way privacy is abused.It cuts two ways.
But it's not just individual bullies hurting powerless people...
The corporate boardroom is used as another kind of fortress of bullies making deals that pollute or hurt citizens in secret..These CEO yell privacy! and appeal to corporate person hood, and litigation to protect this 'right ' to profit off of abusing people! So the people that see the wrong will not intervene in the stronghold, the man's castle and say,you can't do that to those people.
The government makes laws it too is another fortress misused..An institution with such secrecy and privacy it does not deserve to have that hurts people so grievously that is making deals behind closed doors,with other exploiters out of the public eye,..FBI secrets.. The bullies misusing privacy cry National security to cover their own incompetence,dirty deals as they hurt people,they destroy evidence of crime..and fraud and abuse..and they bully watchdogs who would say YOU can't do that to us.. and try to intervene and get a public that is convinced it is helpless against misuse of privacy..In dread fear they will lose their right to legitimate privacy if they intervene in the secrets of bullies..Decent people do not abuse or use privacy to cover a scam,inflict abuse,or torture.Good people don't want to abuse and get away with it...And they also do not want to be treated like criminals,and it is this rightful privacy that protects the wrongful privacy..and makes our homes our fortresses.
Because law also tolerates the wrong use of privacy by bullies which is to abuse, interfere, and harass people who are not harming anyone,but who's lifestyle offends the bullies..We all suffer because of certain bullies with certain beliefs and certain desires for vengeance or control over people that are not harming people ..These bullies want to use law and privacy to justify themselves and their crimes they wish to hide,they lie about their desires to hurt other people.Domestic abuse ,just like Cheney making a fraudulent deal with Ken Lay,happens most often in secret for a reason because it is WRONG..
It is so easy for a bully to exploit a whistle blower into a scapegoat to justify destroying privacy for the scapegoated..While the bully misuses privacy to DO abuse undetected or make sure it's ignored...To silence people who would say to the abusers, don't do that..People fear losing their own defenses because the bully would play victim claiming his castle walls were breached by zealots..and that stirs up the fears and reactions in the traumatized bullied and victimized people who do not know the character of the person being restrained..
But is this bullies privacy sacrosanct after he abuses it? Or can he lose his rights ?? If a bully beats a little girl in'private' on his'private property' is it hands off? She's screaming for help, people dare not invade the castle or invade the sadistic king's privacy..Why?..He has already destroyed a life with his misuse of privacy,our obedience to the law of the fortress for the bully ,and our fear of being scapegoats..It is very troublesome situation because we are so alienated in relating to each other, we let the state enforce what we should consider our human rights,and the state is not for human rights really it's for concentrating power maintaining order of the many to keep trouble down,for the sake of the privileged class keeping their privileged status..we assume the state is like a parent and because we leave it to institutions to fix problems we fail to have to care about human suffering done by bullies on a human level too often.
Our society is too big for our brains to relate to all these people around us.. We cannot manage to trust our mutual freedoms ..because we don't know a stranger is a good person, until we know them..we have no time to get to know our neighbors,and so our safety from people who abuse freedom,abuse privacy, abuse trust,and misuse power is never secured ,and scapegoats that are hated because we do not relate to them and we can turn away and we are taught to believe certain hurtful lies about people by bullying institutions pinging upon the fears of being hurt operating under this massive impersonal confusion because we can't relate to or trust each other anymore like we did in villages and small scale tribes. We can't escape the bullies on TV,The marketers invading our minds, bullies in church or at work,we pretend a bully is not a bully lest we be accused of bullying when we stand up and say enough...
So wringing our hands we turn away,we by stand because we are afraid to act lest we be held responsible and accused...And so traumatized people are told it's their fault because the bystanders and enablers of abusers will not admit some people have no conscience and no mechanism inside them that stops them from doing wrong,
And that people with a conscience are NOT like them.
The people who do know right from wrong and do care,identify themselves too closely with people lacking conscience.. Their tolerance and trust is being exploited by people who do not deserve trust or tolerance..the bullies and manipulators.
Our society is so impersonal because of it's scale, and relationships are abbreviated and superficial,institutional..Where relationships are fragile and shallow every home becomes a fortress .
Our freedoms to be happy and be who we are are taken away slowly by bullies in power and criminals that appear upstanding and on the side of justice..in the name of security..The governments made of predatory individuals are misusing power in the name of security or religion or tolerance even, are still abusers of power saying they are hurting us to protect us from from abusers of power?? WTF??
All for an illusion of social "stability" in a society that relies on appearance more than actual experinces....Yhis appearance stability seems most important to reactionary conservative rigid authoritarian people who only feel secure when everyone appears just like THEM and there is no diversity reminding them they are not in control of how other people live..and refuse to know who is and .. and who are not hurting other people...
So reactionaries and bullies alike will use fear to justify hurting diverse people they can't relate to because their otherness scares them? While criminals and bullies on the take just create the right appearance and do crimed in private are somehow socially immune from wrongdoing because they appear so stable and'appropriate'? All the serial killers were normal Joe's,good people all quiet and reserved, in other words..painfully normal ...that is until the bodies in the basement make such a stench there is an intervention.
Fame and popularity also protects bullies from intervention when they do wrong like the illusion of"normal" can .
We don't have to let abuse of power happen... because we are afraid of abusers of power abusing us because they are angry at being told No you can't do that do we?
Ironic ain't it?
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