The cultural acceptance of a bigbrotherlike society.
I work as an English teacher in Korea. Recently, our principal has decided to install cameras in the classroom. This disturbing action lead me question whether or not this lack of privacy is good for society. I immediately told the boss that I thought this to be an “invasion of privacy.” His limited English lacks knowledge of the phrase. He must have conjured up images of North Korean soldiers preparing to invade the South’s “privacy.” I explained that this was just a figure of speech. However, after much contemplation, I have come to the conclusion that the incremental development of public cameras, and their acceptance, could lead to a miserable kind of existence such as that portrayed in George Orwell’s dystopia “1984″. In other words, the use of the word “invasion”, may not be that far off. But there is no one person or group to man a defensive against. Of course, the year 1984 has long come and gone and nothing like what Orwell envisioned manifested in Europe or elsewhere.
The danger does not lie in the cameras or technology per se. Right now the scariest event occurring regarding this topic is the mass acceptance of a completely televised world. While no one will admit that this is a good thing, aside from government organizations such as the police and security agencies, it is rarely considered as an imminent threat to our way of life. Perhaps that is because it is not an imminent threat. It is an insidiously growing cultural shift.
Working as a tool for security, and now for marketing (as my principal states), the public camera is slowly creeping to critical mass. In London the problem is most apparent. But worldwide this trend is growing in terms of usage and public acceptance. Why is it that no one is screaming out for a stop to this madness? The answer is simple. Osama bin Laden.
The terrorist threat has galvanized the world to accept a growing number of measures that would have been considered unthinkable pre-911, London, and Madrid. The Patriot Act in the United States is a consistently a hotly contested debate. But the freedoms infringed upon due to the Patriot Act are left for other bloggers to consider. The purpose of this blog is limited to the privacy invasion that will lead to an inevitably uncomfortable planet for us and our progeny. I will leave this post for now, but please post your comments and links to resources to further the discussion.
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April 15th, 2007 at 10:41 am
It is a sad fact that most people today would give up so much of their freedom and privacy just to feel safer. And the real question, in my opinion, is: how much safer does this surveillance of the general population make us?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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