Everyone's a critic.
Security seems to be one of the largest issues that today's western society struggles with. For the last five years, publically, it has been an awakening for many everyday people, with news reports and headlines telling them alarming responses to bleak hypothetical questions.
The west has, invariably, begun to trade some of the freedom, that we took so much for granted, for security, with many obvious repercussions and many not so obvious, such as telephone surveillance treaties between the United States and Canada, and email snooping; they have modified terrorism laws that allow them to detain citizens, and have all but declared war on their possible enemies in some sort of preventative move against possible hostilities, and all in the name of national security.
The modus cogitatio is easy to understand, and from the perspecitve of a scared populace, it all makes sense. But where do we draw the line? I'm reminded eerily of a television show I used to watch as a kid: one of the strange remakes of the transformers franchise where, instead of having modern day vehicles turning into robots, it was in a future where the antagonistic arch nemesis, the evil Megatron, had won. The cityscapes were bleak and orderly, and the "good guys" of the series would attack key installations in order to help bring about revolution.
The similarities resonating within those memories are striking, and bring a deeper understanding of the situational differences between the phrases "freedom fighter" and "terrorist". What is the west but the uniform, offensive industrial machine?
As an aside, let me say that I have little interest in politics, even now when people are crying for blood and empeachment and making jokes and having rallies. I don't vote because I am too little informed, and I prefer things that way, but, as they say...
The west has, invariably, begun to trade some of the freedom, that we took so much for granted, for security, with many obvious repercussions and many not so obvious, such as telephone surveillance treaties between the United States and Canada, and email snooping; they have modified terrorism laws that allow them to detain citizens, and have all but declared war on their possible enemies in some sort of preventative move against possible hostilities, and all in the name of national security.
The modus cogitatio is easy to understand, and from the perspecitve of a scared populace, it all makes sense. But where do we draw the line? I'm reminded eerily of a television show I used to watch as a kid: one of the strange remakes of the transformers franchise where, instead of having modern day vehicles turning into robots, it was in a future where the antagonistic arch nemesis, the evil Megatron, had won. The cityscapes were bleak and orderly, and the "good guys" of the series would attack key installations in order to help bring about revolution.
The similarities resonating within those memories are striking, and bring a deeper understanding of the situational differences between the phrases "freedom fighter" and "terrorist". What is the west but the uniform, offensive industrial machine?
As an aside, let me say that I have little interest in politics, even now when people are crying for blood and empeachment and making jokes and having rallies. I don't vote because I am too little informed, and I prefer things that way, but, as they say...
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