Total informational awareness

Ponder this: all of the people, male and female, who might be destined for the success which led to Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, have very likely been surveilled covertly for at least the past five years or so.  It would not be hard to develop algorithms to determine who might be future movers and shakers.  Most high school parties will have as many cell phones as participants and through some combination of open mikes and computer software, very accurate recordings of every shot, every kiss, every lick, and every fuck can be made and stored.  The NSA may not know who will ultimately get ahead, but they can proactively record them all.

Fifteen years from now, if that person decides to try and buck the system, if they have EVER done anything wrong, evidence can be produced immediately.  It is most likely this process is in place now, and has been for some time.  Our system may very well operate on blackmail nearly entirely.  The net is simply getting wider and wider, to include substantially every waking moment spent within an arms length of your cell phone, which is to say substantially every waking (and sleeping) moment.

This thing would be quiet.  No one who is a victim of it would dare protest, for the very reason that they are plainly guilty.  Simple deals can be cut, in which relative compliance is bought for the price of silence; in which, in other words, our “leaders” prostitute themselves to unaccountable, invisible ghosts in the night, whose goals are unknown, whose activities are unknown, and who cannot be made answerable to anyone.

This is why the 4th Amendment exists.  There is nothing new under the sun, and no fundamental aspect of human nature has changed in the past 200 years.

I don’t know what the solution is, but as always, I hope to make a start by stating the problem clearly.