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The invocation of souls is interesting, a reminder that this is not the first generation to shape itself for an omniscient eye. What is an all-seeing God, capable of knowing our thoughts and intentions, if not the most effective surveillance tool ever invented? The genius of this form of religion is the way it seduces believers into performing purity in life in order to reap rewards after death. And unlike today’s surveillance state—which knows only what we type, say, and do—monotheistic gods claim to know our intentions as well.
The protocolic and programmatic truth which now expresses itself everywhere in culture, the economy, and politics is that *only in a society that is so densely and exhaustively networked can lives be so multiply and intensely disconnected from one another and alone*.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
No person should ever trust that their personal information is going to be protected by a company. The place was managed by a mixture of twentysomethings with little work experience and a handful of computer-illiterate adults brought in to babysit them.
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