{"id":251,"date":"2013-06-07T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fgraver.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/07\/impotent-fury\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:39:31","slug":"impotent-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmschoolteacher.info\/fredsnotes\/2013\/06\/07\/impotent-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Impotent fury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of you have probably caught all or some of this http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/06\/us-tech-giants-nsa-data<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything we write on Facebook, search on Google, say on Skype, etc. can potentially be spied on by the US government. This is not a surprise, really. We’ve slowly been moving towards the panopticon society for a while now, but it’s a rude awakening having it thrown in your face like this.<\/p>\n

I have to admit this conjures up conflicting feelings of fury and apathy in me. Fury since this is just an unacceptable way of constructing a society. We are all being criminalized and our freedoms are being stolen. Apathy since my life, like so many others, is wrapped up in digital connections and I don’t know how to disconnect without losing much that I value and am not willing to give up.<\/p>\n

Gramsci was absolutely right. There is a ruling hegemony that finds cohesion in the need to keep the great mass of us docile and compliant and preoccupied with other things than tearing down the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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