Huh. Well the Angel on my left shoulder says "Those terrible Orwellian thugs have a lot of nerve reading people's private communications!" Then the Devil on my right shoulder said "Let the long-haired hippy types build their own internet then if they don't like the way we run it. Damn foreigners and terrorist sympathizers are lucky we even let them play in the first place." I just shrug them both away in the realization that there's no way in hell I'll ever change the practices of a well-funded secret squirrel agency like the NSA.
If anyone out there has any suggestions about how to effect *real* change-- you know, the type where you can make big, powerful, secretive, in-all-practical-ways-above-the-law agencies play nice-- let me know. Cause I've done the whole Moral Outrage thing, and I'm a regular at the ballot box, but I'm getting a little discouraged. I'm thinking that I might make a go of replacing Moral Outrage with Cynical Fatalism. The results are, after all, the same but I seem to get better sleep.
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...but it'll be way better when I can get laser beams to come out of my eyes.
Rindows would be great... especially if they can get Barbara Walters as their spokesperson :)
Huh. Well the Angel on my left shoulder says "Those terrible Orwellian thugs have a lot of nerve reading people's private communications!" Then the Devil on my right shoulder said "Let the long-haired hippy types build their own internet then if they don't like the way we run it. Damn foreigners and terrorist sympathizers are lucky we even let them play in the first place." I just shrug them both away in the realization that there's no way in hell I'll ever change the practices of a well-funded secret squirrel agency like the NSA. If anyone out there has any suggestions about how to effect *real* change-- you know, the type where you can make big, powerful, secretive, in-all-practical-ways-above-the-law agencies play nice-- let me know. Cause I've done the whole Moral Outrage thing, and I'm a regular at the ballot box, but I'm getting a little discouraged. I'm thinking that I might make a go of replacing Moral Outrage with Cynical Fatalism. The results are, after all, the same but I seem to get better sleep.