Comments on: Self-Surveillance

By: alistair

alistair — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:03:42 +0000

the government is paranoid by definition, so any interaction with government is going to create paranoia in yourself.

the fun and games that the cia and the hippies got up to in the sixties and seventies proves my point.

and to call them hippies is like calling deer bambi.

staying sharp in an increasingly dull world is a tough path to walk.

and lonely.

i find that people really resist the sharpening process and few stay the course.

i struggle every day with the fact that, for whatever reason, i`m switched on…..and that most are not.

my study of gurdjieff and ouspensky and crowley and in the last few years bandler and r.a.wilson have shed some light on the problem, but not on the solution…….except to accept my solitude, for the most part.

i have spent the summer trying to re-connect to a community after a seperation in marriage and have realised i don`t speak the language of consumer/robots.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:06:59 +0000

Yeah it’s a pretty good way of checking in with yourself and making sure you stay sharp in an increasingly dull world.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:13:19 +0000

This is like computer security hacking, intrusion for the sake of identifying and correcting any weakness

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:45:04 +0000

That’s a really damned good idea. How can we re-package this idea to help them even more and how do we spread it?

By: Prenna

Prenna — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:07:00 +0000

I think the self-surveilance thing could be a good tool for the various activist groups that tend to get government attention. If they could monitor themselves and then have a more objective idea of how well they maintain their security culture.