Observations About the World, Part Thirty-Three
Photograph of the Atlas globe Mass Surveillance | Thursday – May 14, 2026 I n our days m ass surveillance is becoming more and more common ; to the point where it is almost something quite acceptable and even expected . The idea of privacy and integrity while closely associated with individualism is now being hollowed out, and it is being hollowed out primarily because of stupid and lazy people : most people are simply too lazy to notice these changes, read " The End of History " and " Democracy ", and besides the argument that most people keeps returning to is always the same: as long as you do not break the law , whatever that means, you have nothing to worry about. Is this the relationship most people want to have with the state ? Of course it is; most people have replaced God with something else, in most cases some kind of temporal power , and again this has gone so far that most people indeed have no problem with this; the fact that the government is spying on...
