Not really sure we're living the "technology dream yet".

oh and "UN laws" hahaha

Eventually it was discovered
That God
Did not want us to be
All the same
This was
BAD NEWS
For the Governments of The World
As it seemed contrary
To the doctrine of
Portion Controlled Servings
Mankind must be made more uniformly
If THE FUTURE
Was going to work
Various ways were sought
To bind us all together
But, alas SAMENESS was unenforceable
It was about this time
That someone
Came up with the idea of TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION
Based on the principle that
If we were ALL crooks
We could at last be uniform
To some degree
In the eyes of THE LAW
Shrewdly our legislators calculated
That most people were
Too lazy to perform a
REAL CRIME
So new laws were manufactured
Making it possible for anyone
To violate them any time of the day or night,
And
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We'd all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President,
The most exalted industrialists,
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions
TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION
Was the greatest idea of its time
And was vastly popular
Except with those people
Who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws,
So, of course, they had to be TRICKED INTO IT...
Which is one of the reasons why
Music
Was eventually made
Illegal

So a few weeks ago, my friend asked me why I wasn't using Google anymore, why was I searching on DuckDuckGo like some kind of weirdo. I start yammering on about Google's privacy policy, their track record in authoritarian countries, their attitude towards consumer rights. And he just looks at me like, the fuck? "Why would you care about privacy? Only criminals worry about that stuff, right?" That's what he said. That's actually what he said.

Anyway, this documentary is really depressing. My only complaint is that it doesn't adequately examine WHY we should be worried about the emerging panopticon (how many people have actually bothered to read Huxley or Foucault? Not me, I sprung for the fucking Cliffsnotes, thankyouverymuch). The filmmaker simply throws out a fucking huge flak cloud of worrying tidbits, and invites us to... well, to get scared out of our fuckalls, frankly, which is somewhat ironic seeing as, about halfway through the thing, he makes a big point of illustrating how fearmongering is one of the media's favorite weasel tactics. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess... you either:
o buy the mainstream narrative, that we're all in danger from terrorists-Caminante-Gmork, and accept that we need to cede more power to those above us, so that our brave vanguard can save us from all those traffic light running, AK-toting pedophiles,
o or you don't buy the narrative, and you conclude that we're all in danger from the government-corporations-FOXNews, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because how the hell can we protect ourselves from that?
So in conclusion, fuck me, I'm going back to my pony show.


Also, those dorks from the Pirate Party are hella cool. I wish we had less Pot Party, and more Pirate Party dorks over here stateside.

Using Duck Duck Go is like this decade's equivalent of ironing your mail.