Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/69205144

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The men above you convinced you that it is necessary to put up a mass surveillance state for your protection – surveillance not even you can escape from. Why do you think that is?

Step inside your car and every mile you take will be tracked with precision and tied to your identity. Step outside and escape to the woods? Tens of thousands of disguised motion-triggered cameras will follow your every step. Wanna hit the gym to get into shape? Government spies will buy your data and location from your fitness tracker. What do you think they need all that data for?

Go ahead, turn off location services on your phone. See what it does. Unless you are in airplane mode, your phone’s location will be tracked by whoever made your phone and also whoever is providing telecommunications services in your area. This data is not considered yours nor private and so is retained indefinitely and shared with impunity.

Cameras are no longer just passively recording the streets. They are actively monitored by AI to identify and track in real time just about anyone it chooses for a target. No particular target in sight? Never mind. Behavioral AI analysis will find and identify an angry commuter who just missed their train and will alert nearby enforcement units because of ‘suspicious behavior’.

An enforcement officer has access to so much surveillance power they can just point a camera at your face and immediately get your name, where you live or where you work. A camera that’s on an enforcer’s phone or increasingly more so – their AI glasses. You laughed when this was coming in China. Now you are meant to cheer for it.

And that was the whole point. To gradually get you to a point of inescapable mass surveillance that can target anyone and everyone and you wouldn’t even put up a protest. Not only will you not protest this. You are told to gleefully cheer for the men in power who did this to you. Men in power you are told to worship are the same men who’ll send you or your son to another war while they make fortunes from the chaos your family will get to bear.

Why do you think the mass surveillance system of absolute power never went away? First, they told you it was to fight against terrorism. They didn’t define what terrorism was. They never acknowledged they were participating it. The mass surveillance didn’t expire. No, it was expanded still. They just moved from terror to drug enforcement. Then to enforce immigration policies. Then to protect the children. Now anything that is scandalous or can fall under the vague umbrella of ‘national security’ is used to justify what was supposed to be a temporary limit on your freedoms.

Now they are getting you used to military-looking men roaming the streets with the power to legally destroy you and surveillance states to make sure they can. The powerful men above you convinced you to believe they are doing this to protect you from other men they told you to hate. But they forgot to mention that the same power to enforce something you may like can be used to enforce something you don’t like. So that you don’t get the wrong idea, that maybe no one man should have all that power.

Because they fed you this illusion that maybe you could be the führer’s favorite. So that you wouldn’t end up at other side of his barrel. But to him, you are just a resource. A resource to be converted for something of greater value to him than your life.

And this is why they are doing this to you. The Chinese government has been doing it. The Russian government has been doing it. Therefore, your government must also be doing it if they want to stand a chance on the world scene. It’s a system of geopolitical adaptation. The bridge between your personal life and geopolitics has been crossed. To all of them, their citizens are resources to play the game of politics with. Those that know their numbers better have a higher chance of succeeding.