Sunday, January 11, 2015

''Collect It All'' - NSA surveillance, no privacy, and data storage facilities.




“Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.”

- James Bamford, The Shadow Factory -

''Wonder'' - Look to the skies and dream, Pale Blue Dot, and radio telescopes.


"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

                  
                                                                      -Carl Sagan-

''Conquest'' - Age of Exploration and the Fall of Empires


"The root of all evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest." -Ludwig von Mises-

''Greed'' - The 1%, Citizen Kane, and materialism.

"The world is big enough to satisfy everyone's needs; but will always be too small to satisfy everyone's greed."           -Mahatma Gandhi-



''Drone Guided Democracy'' - US never-ending war on ''terrorism'' and Death from above.

"The West won the war not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion. Rather by its superiority in the application of organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
 -Samuel Huntington-



''Blind'' - Social media, smart phones, and zombies.



"No Big Brother is required to deprive the people of their autonomy, maturity, and history. People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World-

''Ukraine Revolution and Civil War''

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
                                                 - John F. Kennedy -



''Buy Now'' - Marketing, Consumerism, and Social Decay.


"They walk the streets exposed to the constant poison of adverts, sowing the seeds of fantasy, illusion, and the desire for impossible consumption."                           -Fidel Castro-