New World Privacy
They’ve tricked us into forgetting about our fear by giving us the baubles we so enjoy.
The tricks and substance of digital ephemera we so desire. Memes, shocking news, elicit imagery, digital drugs we cannot refuse.
We relinquish our privacy for free “social” entertainment. We trade our freedoms for non-tactile, online connections with strangers. Connections to make us feel worthy, important, and wanted by others. Digital eyes know our every move, all based on our meta footprints, fragmented internet breadcrumbs, and our utter naiveté.
Mind reading is no longer a goal for them, because it’s no longer necessary.
They’re inside our minds.
Our data and “content” are being used against us, to know us better than ourselves. And in ways we never thought possible.
Our lives are coaxed down multicursal paths into the mazes they built. Mazes to trap us, watch us, guide us, and consume us. The consumers are now the consumed.
We enter their mazes willingly and we’re fine with this arrangement. We navigate it with wanderlust. Each encounter becomes a new distraction.
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Binary treasures planted for us to find — by them. The lemmings we have become, relentlessly follow their lead. Onward we move forward and further from the exit.
Escape has taken on a whole new meaning. Or, no meaning at all.
Choice is no longer our own. It is theirs. We are theirs. Possessed pawns.
They know our every move — even the ones we haven’t yet made.
If these words baffle you — like the ones in their terms and conditions that you never read, but agreed to anyway — then it’s already too late for you.
Ignorance, truly can be bliss.
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