68 sats \ 0 replies \ @tolot 1 Sep \ on: EU on the Brink of Mandating Mass Surveillance: Privacy at Stake news
EU is losing its mind around these topics. Europe used to be the continent of ideas, liberalism and openness. Hundred years ago brilliant poets, writers, artists, journalists and scientists were freely sharing ideas and art with each other. Even if belonging to hostile countries. Even during WW1 and WW2.
And people used to have more privacy, citizens used to seek privacy. Now it seems people are only happy to be able to share their nudes freely with the world as if it was the sublime manifestation of freedom.
Ayr Rand wrote in For The New Intellectual that
civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
We're headed to the reinvention of Tribes
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