Adjusting to the brave new world
The world is getting very complicated. How do we adjust to the technology age? There is so much voyeurism on the internet and throughout our society. The government spying on us is no different than the invasions of privacy by corporations data mining our Google searches, gathering statistics about the words in our emails, sharing information about where we live, who we work for, who we donated money to, who we are married to, what our jobs are, what our ages are, it's just such a strange new world.
I always count on the anonymity that is inherent in massive data mining. The odds of my name being pulled out of a hat are pretty slim. But, the risk is, and it's a big one, that with the technology the NSA has, what will happen if our nation, as it is apt to do, goes through another McCarthy era or era of religious extremism like we had in the 1980s. It will be very easy to identify the "enemy."
I must confess, this NSA action makes me more sympathetic to gun rights, but I'd much much rather see the government reign itself in a lot. At the same time, I really do wonder if I'm not understanding this brave new world, and I'm clinging to the old, pretech vision of how the world worked.
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