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easyVegan.info » Blog Archive » easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 2008-07-16 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:05:02 +0000

[...] Green is the New Read: Dispelling Some Big Brother Myths It seems like whenever government surveillance and harassment makes the news, coverage in both the mainstream and alternative press turns into the repetition of a series of Big Brother myths. I think this is a good time to try to dispel a few of them. [...]

By: Will Potter

Will Potter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:20:34 +0000

Eric:
It baffles me how people can see any of the stuff going on now and NOT automatically think of movies and books like these. I remember seeing Gattaca and thinking “hmm, this could actually happen,” and now, just a few years later, there are massive DNA databases being created of “terrorists.”

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:14:15 +0000

1984
V for Vendetta
The Lives of Others
Children of Men

Okay, a bunch of books got there first, but people are more likely to watch movies, right? Then again, we’re already living in the dystopic future, it would seem. These cautionary tales must’ve been dismissed as mere entertainment by far too many people.

By: dani

dani — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:53:06 +0000

If you are participating in this years election I hope that you are young and hopeful. If you are at least 22 you should have realized that the last few were shams and that they are all.
If you’re young then don’t take my word for it, partipate and see what a fool they make of you, if you are old enough then how can you not see the same old bullshit recycled to us every 4 years?
We need better alternative than the ones they give us (and no, I don’t mean endorsing a 3rd or 4th candidate)

By: Will Potter

Will Potter — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:11:41 +0000

I completely understand. And you’re right, there really is no other option. I didn’t mean to sound like I’m dismissing the grassroots work people are doing to support Obama, it’s just that I think we all need to keep our eyes wide open, and not put too much faith in one person/election, you know?

Politically, I don’t know what makes sense right now. I think it’s totally unconscionable that Obama would support such an insane surveillance bill, but at the same time, like you said, what do you do?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:57:03 +0000

You bring up a good point about people flocking to Obama. I’m one of those people counting on him to change things. I think it’s because things in this country have gotten so bad in the eight years that Bush has been in office — and because I still can’t believe that he was elected president once, let alone twice. I’m looking for Obama to change things — to wake people up and go WTF?! And I don’t want to even contemplate another four years of the same corporate-driven, environment-be-damned government. So it’s Obama or no one, isn’t it? (Sorry for the rambling.)