i recently was housesitting and they had cameras inside their house
little beady lenses pointing straight at me
naturally, i covered them when i arrived,
coz no one needs to know what I'm doing
fast forward:
cleaning up preparing for their return
i find the cameras swivelled,
angles uncovered, the revelation
that the watchful eye had purpose
to surveil
most intersections have cameras now
are they manned?
are there eyes on the other side of the lens,
peering into my car
watching when i skip a song while driving
i get a 400 $ fine and 3 points
cookies sound so nice and gentle
you are tracked
and profiled
into folders
and folders
and folders
a data broker (real job)
collects personal information
legally
and sells it to corporations
congratulations
your name and interests have been commodified
you now have a target on your head
chkchkboom
ads for yussef dayes concert
privacy is a modern myth
you are watched and heard
i want to unsubscribe
knowledge is power
i was corrected in my first philosophy class this semester
i said that we are in some sense, smarter
than those before us
she said no, but simply more knowledgabkle
because really,
you get given a bunch of rocks and sticks and calculate the distance between us and the sun
hm
but i am now taught how to feed the system
youtube documentaries teach me more than my lectures
i am severely disappointed
i am both bored and uninformed
i get shitty webinar deliverables as my formal education
and i will be "more qualified" than average joe.
is this a bias against my studies
am i ungrateful
a lot of science is just theories useful for explaining things
is it necessarily real?
take aristotle
that man thought things were the way they weren't
and people believed him for centuries,
what do we REALLY know?
signing out
fugin work tmrw morn
-d


