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philosophy: 10-12-2021 post
For today, I have two posts.

This first one consists of two original philosophical statements said, interpreted, and then followed by comment about mass-surveillance – its drawback/consequence/effect.

“Stupidity depicts desperation, while intelligence draws good favor.” – CJF
With so many of us doing and saying stupid things, one has to wonder what is causing all this madness. There are all sorts of factors that result in it. So often, one rushes to blame the person who exhibits suffering; but, in truth, there are so many varieties of cause for an individual’s pain. Most of the time, if not always, stupidity is worthy of compassion. Some of us are less insulated from harm, and more exposed to hardship. This can elicit strange behavior. And, with mass surveillance there is compounding complexity for some persons of focus who are being exploited by other’s observations. I’ll touch on that further in a moment.

“On the verge of insanity, can reside lucidity. But, if you don’t have an anchor for your emotions, an ability to harness your thinking, you might not be able to excel. Worse, you might go insane and cause others to do so as well.”
– CJF
With so many unbridled passions out there, (not hidden ones) rather outspoken and unapologetic demonstrations of them, the tendency for widespread insanity causes more widespread pains. When being in focal point, it becomes unavoidable to escape scrutiny. Thus, one’s private pains become everyone’s observing (assuming witnesses are compassionate). Insanity has degrees.

One of the ill-effects of mass surveillance, is that messages intended for (and tailored to) the needs of the singular message recipient, are all of a sudden no longer seen by the recipient alone – rather, also by those who are surveilling and exposing information to many others. In what appears to be a millisecond, the snoop begins more entitled to feel ownership of the information that is not his or hers. The information gets stolen and misused. It becomes “capitalized”-without-reward to the original sender in most cases. The impact of this, over time, is Communism. In the short term, the impact is theft… whereby hard-achieved facts and material, suddenly become available to misuse and serve undeserved privileged.

Also, in the short-term, society becomes more confused and crazed. This is like some freakish chemical reaction in which everyone feels married to the same person, place, thing. People become unable to differentiate from a good leader and an oppressor. The former, knows what to do with his or her information. The latter, seeks only to exploit it and to dominate others with that information as if they were the author. That is not freedom; rather, that is being shut-up and shut-out. Also, unmerited or needless interventions and over-reactions, precipitated by oversimplification, hubris, and/or ignorance with fear, quickly become more prevalent on a massive scale. This creates mass paranoia and authoritarian thinking. More, this compounds by further misuse and abuse. Incorrect narrations and competing redefinition of what actually is, become muddled by selfish motives. Strings that never actually existed, become connections. People who do not deserve the merit, get praise and reward. While the originator more frequently might not. The ill-effects of mass-surveillance have many more manifestations that I can analyze. Publishing is different. Publishing is the delivery of messages intended for many. But communications with friends, loved-ones, counterparts, are not qualified as public material and content. These are my general feelings about mass-surveillance’s ill effects. And, this suffices for today.