"We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both."
Proposing that we may be able to theoretically balance the two extremities to create a centrally salubrious system. Theoretically writing if we are allowing each citizen individual autonomy of choosing to live our best life without judgement and using known information (proposing we would be healthier if we enter every situation without shame/fear/guilt as if the secrets are known) about a citizen to help heal/build better lives rather than weaponize info could we build an overall cleaner environment for a greater ease, contentment, joy of living? It’s all complicated with many moving parts yet as an optimist I propose…Yes, what may seem impossible is possible.
One of the biggest areas we could stand to shed the need of weaponizing within surveillance mentality is our sexual and romantic lives. Respecting Love whilst not judging various degrees of sexual choices/mores. Theoretically if we de-weaponize choice, sex and love could we begin generating a de-weaponization of surveillance/interdependantly autonomous lives?
The Internet has become a subliminal influence machinery. The days where the results of a Google search are ranked by the page algorithm are long gone. Google search results are now customized for each user individually by an opaque algorithm. The argument in favor of such customization is that it is aimed at maximizing user benefit, but it could also be aimed at maximizing advertising revenues. Analogously, the stream of posting on a Facebook user's wall is algorithmically customized, with the goal of "maximizing user engagement." Just like the grains of information we reveal about ourselves result in a heap of information about us, the grains of information that Internet companies give us result in a heap of influence we are not aware of.
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Proposing that we may be able to theoretically balance the two extremities to create a centrally salubrious system. Theoretically writing if we are allowing each citizen individual autonomy of choosing to live our best life without judgement and using known information (proposing we would be healthier if we enter every situation without shame/fear/guilt as if the secrets are known) about a citizen to help heal/build better lives rather than weaponize info could we build an overall cleaner environment for a greater ease, contentment, joy of living? It’s all complicated with many moving parts yet as an optimist I propose…Yes, what may seem impossible is possible.
One of the biggest areas we could stand to shed the need of weaponizing within surveillance mentality is our sexual and romantic lives. Respecting Love whilst not judging various degrees of sexual choices/mores. Theoretically if we de-weaponize choice, sex and love could we begin generating a de-weaponization of surveillance/interdependantly autonomous lives?