we are being watched, being tracked, and allowing it to happen because it's offered with a convenience: trackable user cards offer lesser fees, ease of transport, discounts. so we oblige, and we think, who cares if my habits and whereabouts are tracked, i've nothing to hide.
but that's not the point. the point is, we're giving up a freedom. we're allowing *some* control, some small and perhaps seemingly innocent and trivial control, because it's easier. we're lazy. we'll take the discounts and use the fast lane and buy that handy little card because it's cheaper.
i sound paranoid. i am; i'm scared we're allowing things to happen before our very eyes and not watching.
a few months ago, i read 1984 (embarrassingly for the first time), and the parallels to present-day right-here blew me away.
of course, the book is wild, and of course, we're not quite there yet. but it's not so wild as it was when it was published in 1949. maybe that's why it's been banned so much.
(i took that there picture this summer. i like to document improper apostrophe usage. it's everywhere. it's laziness. it's another post.)
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national ID, here we come. i've got nothing to hide, and they wouldn't have any reason to abuse that little tool, would they?
as we learned with phone taps, these little tools *are* abused. and we watch. i'm guilty, too.
be careful amy this is dangerously close to a thoughtcrime.
sometimes i forget the thought police are watching, everywhere, all the time.
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