Re: On a Modern Mental Illness (Prince Trippy) 08/09/23
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The Prince[1] recently wrote about the "modern mental illness" of
being overly-concerned (neurotic) about online privacy. Maybe the same
extends to privacy in general, I don't know... but I think it mostly
exhibits in the digital world.
I enjoyed the realization he came to: that it is "an endless game,"
full of players in various strata, and that the pursuit of a cure is
more-than-usually vanity.
Others, I've witnessed, have addressed the game not by ceasing to care
about privacy, but by abandoning technology to one degree or another.
To this the Prince holds up "the omnipresent surveillance of society
nowadays," which is a surrender, but with truth in it.
Personally, I don't know what to think. I'm holding out hope that the
sun will send a harsh lesson of its own, one that will solve the
problem for me; but that is laziness, and the odds are more-or-less
astronomical. If I'm being honest, I have the mental illness described
in the link, and am coping with it just as horridly, or pretending I
don't have it at all.
I wonder if there are any ancient mental illnesses that could be held
as parallel to this one?
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