You get that feeling Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984 is watching you?
CCTV watches our moves 24/24 in the trains, city areas and commercial centres; sometimes the cross line you get whilst on the phone could be more than a stranger on the other end apologising for listening in; the person sitting next to you on the train, could be someone who knows more about you than you think; your bank card reveals so much info about you, it’s better to pay by cash. I know in Miami, each time you go into a store, other than supermarkets like Win Dixie or Publix, they automatically ask for your address details on purchase of an item; now the normal procedure and practice in some major Hire/Service shops in the UK.
The only way to avoid paranoic ideas seeping in through our veins is to:-
Remain at home;
Contact nobody and especially anyone who turns up unexpectedly in our lives when we need support most;
Speak to no-one unless it’s the Gas or Electricity meter engineers who can show genuine work id cards;
Befriend no-one who happens to wear a ‘Columbo’ mac and says,
‘Good day to you, Miss’ and ‘By the way, you don’t happen to know where to get quality hot chocolate do you?’ Mention Starbucks and he’ll be there offering to pick up your brolly or purse, at the crucial moment;
Seek professional advice
We ‘appear’ to live in a democratic society where free speech is the acceptable norm, but if we say something ‘out of the norm’ about the Government, our every move would be under careful scrutiny from then on, so really wherever we turn, we are faced with so many rules and regulations, we haven’t really got much space to manoeuvre - ie. Smoking will be banned from the streets in the UK from July 07; Litter bins don’t exist in the underground anymore and smoking is banned on trains and in the underground anyway.
The poem, Politic by Dean Baker, makes me think of the restrictions we face even in a ‘democratic’ environment:
My comment:
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Yes, how true - democracy is ‘bliss’ if there is such a thing as true democracy and how many can say that ‘democracy’ actually exists, I’ve yet to see, in the pained expressions of many hardened hearts and minds and discussions…Thanks for bringing to the fore such much needed attention to what’s lacking in our lives even now.
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We somehow inadvertently live by the rules so much we daren’t breathe or utter anything drastically considered ‘out of the norm’ in case we are considered insane by the men in white.
Maybe we ought to change sides and live on the other side of the fence where ‘freedom’ doesn’t exist - at least then the men in white wear black.
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