Lose your privacy and lose your self control.
Edward Snowden, at this hour in London, is speaking to the British people via film and about the NSA. He's making some good points, but what resonates most with many of us, probably, is what a world in which nothing is private will do to our children.
"A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be." ...TheGuardian
It's also a problem that our children, like many of us, have known nothing but war, something we don't like to admit about ourselves. Since we first went to war in Southest Asia, we have gone from one "adventure" to another.
Another question might be, is this loss of privacy more or less likely to bring us peace? Did our reaction to 9/11 result in more peace or just more war(s)?
How about what it's like to live in a place where national security is not the preeminent consideration?
Pretty damn good, in my experience. America should try it.
