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Off Topic discussions / Re: Microsoft Wants to Be Your Big Brother
« on: 2008.08.10, 05:16:59 »:C Everybody seems to be doing it. Look at facebook, the only social networking site I use, and beacon. I turned beacon off, but lo-and-behold, beacon is still tracking/targeting me. I think that the advertisers and those who get money from that will have their way, no matter what. If they did not exist, this monitoring technology would not be for bad use, but for the use which we would like to see it.
The level of invasiveness of personal privacy that people are willing to accept astounds me.
When your most intimate things are common there is no reason for self-respect, and if you do not have self-respect, then there is nothing for others to respect in you.
The psychological makeup of a person is such that the potential for individuality is there as a product of one's birth. But it is not guaranteed to mature.
In addition, society is setup to prevent this maturation from happening. Your Core needs something precious that helps make an individual special to himself, and to others. And you need to hold and keep it dear. Then you can give it to someone special in your life who will in turn, in love, give you something special of themselves, and together you can make a strong bond that can last a lifetime and give you a sense of completeness.
Look around you. The average lifetime today tosses away mates like a flu-stricken person going through a box of tissues.
No bonding with your mate, no strong ties. No strong ties, no strong family. No strong family, no one to miss you or stand up for you, should you be the object of oppression... as we all are today. Rights and freedoms today are just another box of Kleenex. You cannot do this without a detrimental backlash.
When all things precious are common, individuality is lost. When individuality is lost we are cloned common stock in a communal society. i.e.: communistic or, as you'll be hearing more of soon, Collectivistic. This is not good. Individuality will disappear and group-think will reign. In a group you are a number. As a number you can never be special. And your birthright is still-born.
Saijin Naib, I know I quoted a stale message from you, and, just to be clear, I'm not really responding to you, rather, I'm using your post as mechanism for information delivery to all in general. It is not personal.

Very few people these days understand that privacy is the keystone to security of mind... and of body. You pull it out, (or give it away), to the detriment of all involved. This was well known in the past, but is hidden from the public at large today, stolen from your back pocket with their left hand, while their right hand keeps you dazzled by the glitz of the Internet and the illusion of a real community. It can never be real.
When the peg of respect is pulled out, the very foundations of what we are will shake, and ultimately, fall. If there is nothing differentiating us from anything, and all we have is common, then we are common. Common is the opposite of Special and built in to, even the very word, Communist.
As a small taste of what I say, look up "The Hidden Agenda" on YouTube and listen to the now deceased Norman Dodd in a interview just before his death.
Norman Dodd was many things, but in relevance, he was the head of the Congressional Investigation Committee setup by the US Congress, (by Congressman Carroll Reese), to investigate the wrong doings of the big tax-exempt foundations with respect to what they were up to with the Nazis during the second world war. This committee is generally, and unofficially, referred to as the Reese Committee in the early 50s and did complete its task. But their finding were never allowed to be submitted before Congress, having been crushed by powerful forces. The findings are, however, available.
To wrap this up, the foundations knew they couldn't get people to give up their privacy and let the government into their bedrooms and mental inner sanctum, by force. As soon as the people got wind of it heads would roll. So they made it KEWL to give up privacy, for a new and unsuspecting generation who know nothing of war and national deceit, in an education system that has thrown away the banana and kept the peel.
This soon spread to all generations in a world of apparent safety and comfort..


