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freshwest

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6. I don't see this so much as government surviellence as corporate data mining. The info is for sale,
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 03:30 PM
Mar 2012

To whoever has an interest, be it for selling products, or increasingly, getting even more products and services paid by government. That is part of the hollowing out of the commons, their coming up with calls on the public purse for all these alleged threats...

Often against the corporations, and cajoling the public at every level of society into going along with it under the various guises of stopping crime or terrorism. Through churches, institutions of learning, businesses.

We've largely done this to ourselves, but we had little choice. Human beings need each other, need relationships to survive. They are parasites on us, infecting our necessary desire to make contact with each other for their own purposes. Are they all evil MOFO's?

I doubt it. Many people have been educated to make the tools used to oppress. The only solution is something bigger than all we've done before, changing the priorities of mankind and I believe that Occupy is a major part.

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