Quote: (02-25-2014 03:07 PM)K Galt Wrote:
Well Lizard, maybe you are and maybe you're not...
Thanks for the giving the benefit of the doubt here...
Quote: (02-25-2014 03:07 PM)K Galt Wrote:
but if you're not, you'd be incredibly naive to believe the NSA is no big deal. But this topic certainly gets my goat. The Federal Government is literally transforming into the all-seeing, all-knowing "eye of Sauron" and they are watching and recording everyone and everything in this country.
If, LOL.
Like I said, they cast a wide net and try to collect as much info as they possibly can. What do they do with it then? Do you think anyone has the desire, time, or resources to go through all this unimaginable amount of data?
You talk about 1984 which is a great book, please re-read it and tell me if other than throwing the phrase "Big Brother" around, current life in the US bears a significant resemblance to what is described there. There have been and still exist societies that were actually like that -- please contemplate this truly evil fact. Societies in which a large percentage of all people were denouncers who spied on their friends and colleagues, reported them to the authorities and had them arrested, imprisoned, and often tortured and executed.
People in the West are so spoiled and so ignorant about the actual history of the last century that they are deluded that the societies in which they live bear any resemblance to these nightmare worlds. This does anger me sometimes, because I have a better understanding of what the nightmare worlds were like. But I also remind myself that most Americans luckily have no such understanding, and therefore are to be excused for making these absurd comparisons.
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...