Comment on Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agosocial politeness has gone too far \s
tbh I have daily interactions with real humans in the flesh that make me think more people should be concerned about their actions and words than they are, lol
though the habituation of state and corporate surveillance is disturbing and should be combated fr
Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Forget state and corporate surveillance. You are being watched by a hivebeast with a thousand eyes. It’s the people around you. So conforming that they are barely individuals. The hivebeast is not kind, or even very smart, but it is powerful and it demands your compliance.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I live in America, people here operate in the opposite fashion of a hive - in a hive the organism is the collective, and the individual is just a part of the whole. In the U.S. many people refuse to take minimal actions to benefit others and even themselves out of the perception that it might be viewed as collectivist.