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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Epic A+++ video!

(I know I've been throwing a lot of those high grades around lately, but these in these times folks just gotta wake up to this great info.)

While most of you may be upset with this "big brother panopticon" term rebranding, whitewashed now as "contact tracing", I sympathize with you all and feel your pain.

However, a part of me absolutely celebrates this new term!

In writing my Bittersweet Seeds epic subversive near future hard-sci-fi story (a work in progress), I won't have the burden of actually having to explain this whole thing and my audience will already be aware of it. This new well-known term is a HUGE relief for me.

Even before I started going deep into conspiracy theory and historical revisionism in 2014-2015, I was VERY well aware that there would be vastly superior surveillance systems in 25-30 years from now and that escape from surveillance would be nearly impossible. "They" will always get you, or so we're told. (Even that lone shooter in Nova Scotia got nabbed, if we are to believe that story. Of course, we don't know about all the lone shooters and serial killers that actually get away with it, with or without help from authority and the deep state.)

At the half-way mark in my story, starting with Act 2B "Fugue", after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt, my protagonist escapes on foot and must evade surveillance not knowing who to trust or who's out to kill him. This has been fundamental in my story since about 2007. I liked to consider the latter half of my story a mashup of The Fugitive, Children Of Men, The Bounty, and 2001: A Space Odyssey - vaguely. I don't know how to describe or compare the first half, which lays out the foundation with a LOT of ideas in "normal" circumstances before switching gears.

Maybe I should ignore this corona thing and SaidIt for a while and just finish the damn story.

Copypasted here: https://www.corbettreport.com/stop-calling-it-contact-tracing-propagandawatch/#comment-80814