(07-04-2024, 09:57 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Most are either in denial, or deliberately ignorant of just how deep we have sunk in the quicksand.
As @"Ninurta"#2 said. Resistance is futile. Even if you go cold turkey and cut the cord, they will still be watching you. They are still in control.
Actually, "going dark" paradoxically puts a spotlight on you, and draws "their" attention TO you. They want to know suddenly WHY you are going dark - what you may be hiding, or who you may be hiding FROM. It actually cause them to suddenly concentrate on you, in order to find out more about you and what you may be up to.
They will then find alternative means to dig into you, your life, your history, and your activities, and they will concentrate more fully on you.
It's just the way a Surveillance State works. They get you to spy on yourself, and report back in.
"We have met the Stasi,and they are us".
It's better to leave a false breadcrumb trail than it is to go completely dark. That allows you to blend into the crowd, and keeps them from developing too much inordinate interest in you.
As an example, I became an object of curiosity because I did not have a "smart phone" when everyone else did. They wondered why it was that I didn't particularly care to be tracked via an omnipresent smart phone link to the Borg Collective. The solution was not to go even darker, it was to GET a "smart phone", and then meticulously control where it went and what it did to reassure them that I was not really very interesting. My smart phone does not go everywhere I do. It only goes to the grocery store, the doctor's office, and home. I have a very boring life... because my phone does not go anywhere else that I might go. I don't turn it off or pull out the battery, because that would excite more interest. Instead, I leave it laying at home, turned on but not moving, whenever I go where there may be dragons.
Turning the phone off or pulling the battery excites interest - It's just a form of temporarily "going dark", which piques their curiosity. So I leave it on, but laying at home, so that they "know" that I'm sitting there watching TV or something, just being my usual boring self. After all, who goes out and about these days without taking their phone with them? Therefore I MUST be sitting at home, doing nothing. Right?
It goes to the grocery store and the doctor's office with me just like everyone else, so clearly it MUST be joined to my hip like a Siamese Twin just like everyone else, right?
If my phone is at home, and my TV is on serving targeted ads to me, then clearly I MUST be sitting at home watching TV, right?
Nor do I surf the web on it, or anything of the sort. I use it ONLY to talk to people, or to take the occasional photo. Then I make sure they know I am just a boring Luddite, and the reason it's not being used for other purposes is because "I don't know how". Us Old Farts can get away with that, because it fits the stereotype, it fits their "profile" and makes it make sense to them.
Problem solved, curiosity laid to rest. Just another boring day in Retirementville. Don't watch that one too closely, because his life is so boring it could put you to sleep! We have all the evidence of how boring he is right here - one trip a week to the grocery store, one trip every couple of months to the doctor's office, and the rest of the time he's at home watching TV...
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