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1 .SH josuah | |
2 I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me | |
3 .2C 78v | |
4 . | |
5 .PP | |
6 The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anym… | |
7 NSA (among others) is watching you (among others). | |
8 . | |
9 .PP | |
10 Does that change anything to my everyday life? | |
11 Probably not, they already were before you knew about it. | |
12 Should I do anything about it? | |
13 No answer. | |
14 The eternal doubt that modern society is famous for: | |
15 . | |
16 .QP | |
17 I do not know, do not ask me. | |
18 That question is weird anyway. | |
19 Let me go back to my life. | |
20 . | |
21 .PP | |
22 That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a supermarket and see th… | |
23 tubes, cables and neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in … | |
24 The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as if taken straight out of the… | |
25 .FS | |
26 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ | |
27 .FE | |
28 movie. | |
29 . | |
30 .PP | |
31 A landscape that is in such opposition with the images printed onto ever… | |
32 picturing what more or less fits the collective imagery of "house of my … | |
33 promising a natural environment and suggest quality, authenticity, tradi… | |
34 Pictures of a caring lady baking something appetizing, | |
35 a honest farmer offering a handful of home-grown vegetables or meat... | |
36 Where did they even find all these landscapes of backcountry without pho… | |
37 tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses, wind turbines to put on these pr… | |
38 . | |
39 .QP | |
40 I do not know, do not ask me. | |
41 That question is weird anyway. | |
42 Let me go back to my life. | |
43 . | |
44 .PP | |
45 How did such a landscape, | |
46 neon distopia pictures that seems straight out of a /r/cyberpunk | |
47 .FS | |
48 https://teddit.net/r/cyberpunk | |
49 .FE | |
50 post or the latest Blade Runner, | |
51 got invited into the cozzy bubble of the average citizen doing shopping? | |
52 .FS | |
53 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg | |
54 .FE | |
55 Who made these places so ugly? | |
56 Why do I feel like human is being considered like cattle in these kind o… | |
57 . | |
58 .QP | |
59 I do not know, do not ask me. | |
60 That question is weird anyway. | |
61 Let me go back to my life. | |
62 . | |
63 .PP | |
64 What weird things am I even saying! | |
65 It is not like an NSA agent is sitting on every metal beams of these sup… | |
66 There are cameras though. | |
67 What do they film? | |
68 Thieves? | |
69 Who is checking? | |
70 Software? | |
71 Peoples? | |
72 Are marketting managers looking at these pictures? | |
73 Of me too? | |
74 Right now? | |
75 What do they think of me? | |
76 Did they look at my hand hesitating between these two products? | |
77 . | |
78 .QP | |
79 I do not know, do not ask me. | |
80 That question is weird anyway. | |
81 Let me go back to my life. | |
82 . | |
83 .PP | |
84 Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on its empty backpack, | |
85 with a small cup filled with coins, | |
86 looking a bit panicked, | |
87 looking a bit dirty, | |
88 looking a bit lost, | |
89 sometimes even a bit drunk, | |
90 or is it dizziness from living outside? | |
91 Occasionally they will ask you for another coin to add to their small co… | |
92 Passerbys offer them a lie such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word … | |
93 keep walking faster without looking, | |
94 and eventually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going before they g… | |
95 What did happen to them? | |
96 Did they choose to live here? | |
97 How can I know it will never happen to me? | |
98 Why do I feel bad if I do not give them what they ask? | |
99 Why do I feel bad if I give them what they ask? | |
100 . | |
101 .QP | |
102 I do not know, do not ask me. | |
103 That question is weird anyway. | |
104 Let me go back to my life. | |
105 . | |
106 .PP | |
107 Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: | |
108 Writing this, I am not asking these questions to you, neither you are as… | |
109 The \fIplaces\fR we live in are suggesting these questions. | |
110 . | |
111 .PP | |
112 By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but displaying eye-catchy p… | |
113 it is obvious that people will notice the disbalance between the two. | |
114 . | |
115 .PP | |
116 By placing cameras filming every square meter of such a place, or even a… | |
117 it is obvious that people will wonder at some point, who is behind the s… | |
118 . | |
119 .PP | |
120 The questions are left open. | |
121 Nothing is made to even give hint about the answer. | |
122 We are left in the doubt, | |
123 letting some comfort themself with "it is just in case of a burglary, on… | |
124 or other claim "they are using these images to study how we think to bet… | |
125 claims based upon convictions, not facts. | |
126 . | |
127 .PP | |
128 The technician installing these cameras up there has no hint either, | |
129 its manager just followed the recommandations of the mothership company, | |
130 itself getting directions from the investor group who purchased the bran… | |
131 who themself are only trying to keep-up with the trends in that domain. | |
132 . | |
133 .PP | |
134 Why would I care? | |
135 I stopped to care about these silly questions since long. | |
136 I came back to the real world for the better. | |
137 I live my life ignoring what happens around me and it works plenty well. | |
138 . | |
139 .QP | |
140 So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my gut, there is a voice … | |
141 .FS | |
142 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q | |
143 .FE | |
144 . | |
145 .PP | |
146 The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is: | |
147 you do not get too many answers about how the whole anthill works. |