Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible?
Movies have got us used to the sight of people as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology.
Last week's
NSA
leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim
but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the
360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently
now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's
telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and
Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted
tormentor
even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. And
"precrime",
a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing,
apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional
American citizen of our broken times is the zombie.
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