mr.gr3y

Yo, tmo! All is well in my world. I hope you're doing well, too. Gotta love that morning coffee, right? Mmmm. I'm ready for more and nearing a lethal amount of caffeine, no doubt.

I enjoyed your post on the edge-of-grid in terms of privacy, and I agree with you. I think I'm pretty well on the edge as well. As you've probably done so too, I think there comes a point where we have to have a certain level of acceptance of the world and how things are, even if we don't agree with any of it. And that level of acceptance is to understand that true privacy is a thing of the past now. In some way, no matter how hard we try, we are a monitored society. And sadly, the intensity of that monitoring is only increasing. The waves and momentum of it are being driven and supported by the mass population, who desperately cling on to their online obsessions, such as Facebook, even in light of how horrific they are for us and the truth being fully exposed now regarding their true intentions and privacy violations. Even the courts of our government have come out and said that Snowden was right, the government has been spying on all of us, and it was, and still is, entirely illegal to do so. But yet, no one cares. They continue scrolling away and mindlessly liking endless amounts of pointless 'content', all so they can get through the jobs they hate and the lives they don't want to truly live. Social programming is an interesting observation.

I guess the only thing we can do is take all the precautions we can, and live intentionally with full awareness of what we're doing (online and off), and just try to be good humans. Sometimes simplicity does more than we think, especially in this digital age of fakery. Saying hello to someone, or offering a genuine compliment, can change a person's day way more than getting 50 phony likes on their latest selfie. Hell, maybe even taking time to offer food and conversation to someone that is homeless or in need can change the world, or at least their world. Possibly our own, too.

Either way, we're a part of this ride in some way or another. Even if we're just watching from the sidelines, not engaging in the chaotic tools of others, and how the world prefers to 'engage' with each other.

I do think people are starting to wake up more, though, and are becoming more aware of what is really going on. It's a slow process, but I think it's happening.