Comment on Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.”
The consensus seems to be that this is a propaganda piece, or at least heavily opinionated by the writer, but I just don’t understand how they could write this with a positive frame of mind. The article is a strange mixture of perspectives that don’t seem consistent. Bizarre.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In modern context, with Musk censoring and banning everyone and everything he doesn’t like, having a backdoor into a country’s financial system and probably also deportation, that statement is ominous as hell.
paradox2011@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Seriously. It seems like the subconscious anxieties and fears of the writer’s mind come through in statements like this and a few others. Whatever positives (real and imagined) there are about the situation, there is an underlying loss of personal autonomy that causes a sense unease. The thing that’s continuing to intrigue me now is: did the writer intend for that to come through, showing the losses a society of that nature would sustain as a commentary on those that promote it, or are they intentionally trying to downplay the loss of personal autonomy as if it’s not actually a large part of human happiness? Idk, weird article.