Thanks. We have given away too much of our private lives to technology already. I fear even this platform, as others, is subject to the deep state actors' bad intentions. My only consolation is that at 74 I am closer to the end than the beginning. I do pray for my children and grandchildren though.
You should read the comment thread on X in which Rep Thomas Massie warns about RealID. Most of the commenters, all Trump loyalists, attack him and find "six ways from Sunday" why RealID is just fine, "the govt has all my data anyway," and "I trust my guys, they're just protecting us! You're a disloyal loon, Massie!"
The older I get the more I sympathize with Eliot when he said " This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper". We are indeed hollow men who trade privacy for convenience. Unfortunately most are too intoxicated with the spectacle to notice their hubris.
Yes. I live in a community with many so-called successful younger people and they use Venmo, etc. all the time - they love digital payment systems. They cannot comprehend any need for financial privacy or autonomous financial actions, because they're seduced by the ease. And the loss of our self-determination does seem to be proceeding with a whimper.
Thanks. We have given away too much of our private lives to technology already. I fear even this platform, as others, is subject to the deep state actors' bad intentions. My only consolation is that at 74 I am closer to the end than the beginning. I do pray for my children and grandchildren though.
You should read the comment thread on X in which Rep Thomas Massie warns about RealID. Most of the commenters, all Trump loyalists, attack him and find "six ways from Sunday" why RealID is just fine, "the govt has all my data anyway," and "I trust my guys, they're just protecting us! You're a disloyal loon, Massie!"
The older I get the more I sympathize with Eliot when he said " This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper". We are indeed hollow men who trade privacy for convenience. Unfortunately most are too intoxicated with the spectacle to notice their hubris.
Yes. I live in a community with many so-called successful younger people and they use Venmo, etc. all the time - they love digital payment systems. They cannot comprehend any need for financial privacy or autonomous financial actions, because they're seduced by the ease. And the loss of our self-determination does seem to be proceeding with a whimper.
I subscribe to this British group's emails, which started as anti-censorship, but now have cause to expand into other areas -
https://reclaimthenet.org/from-boarding-pass-to-bio-id-airports-become-frontlines-in-the-surveillance-state