'What's in the box?'
-David Mills, Se7en
'And the eye-in the-sky is watching us all.'
-Ace Rothstein, Casino
'To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.'
-Joseph Goebbels
As a trader, there is time to reflect ‘tween the flickering
ticks, often in the wee hours. Here in the Great City there is tranquility when
the air is sepia; the darkness balanced by the illumination necessary to keep
the cameras in focus as they watch the over-served stumble home whilst the
bunnies litter the green space. Actually we have a bunny infestation here, but
no one seems to mind. After all they are cute, cuddly, and as such of course
harmless. The signs referencing infestation always refer to the rodents, many
the size of rabbits. Both critters carry disease no doubt, but there are of
course no proclamations with big red Xs superimposed over Thumper and his kin.
For the gnostic the wailing and gnashing of being spy gamed
is about seven years too late. The Federales
mirrored the San Fran Carrier Hotel back
in ’06 and have never snooped back. They hack us for our freedoms dontchaknow.
The digital binding of the left hand to the right foot, the requisite dissection
of ones’ avataristic soul, with mercy dispensed as necessary in the name of national
security.
The comics of course living up to their name in discourse,
oblivious to any other amendment other than the second. Snowden, Manning, and the like, you are no
Daniel Ellsberg, for as we live through a bad sci-fi movie from the 70s the concept
of whistleblower is being queued up as requiring a minimum sentencing standard.
Pay no mind that the self-immolation of a Tunisian monk that purportedly
initiated the Arab Spring was motivated by the Wikileaks disclosure of
corruption in their government and direct your inattention to the fact that Snowden’s
girlfriend is kinda hot eh?
No one asked us if we wanted a credit score. No one will ask
us if we want a citizen score. Alas such a metric is undeniably coming to a job
interview, college application, mortgage document and dating website near you. When
the spooks gave away the basic algorithms to business awhile ago assuring that there was no bottle
for that genie, the ubiquitous commercial application of that military tech
became inevitable.
At the end of the day the data intelligence complex is a job
creation program. Oh certainly the usual suspects over time will be rounded up
so our solons with flag pins suitably shined can trumpet the necessity of it
all for there is data gold in them there hills; a digital homestead with free
spoils .
Youth may be for the young but youthful indiscretion is now a thing of your past, available into perpetuity at the touch of the button by any opposable
thumb that finds you within six degrees of nefarious separation.
Frankly, I feel sorry for the rats.
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