21-03-2009, 02:13 PM
Let's not let any of this go to our heads ... or our spines.
The watching game is more complex than simple surveillance. This is about feint, misdirection, counting guns, playfulness, contempt, training (theirs, so let's make it ours), talent spotting, and the nurturing of paranoia and ego.
For starters.
The Unspeakable outnumber us, out-gun us, and can wreak havoc on our material supply lines. They can buy-off many of us, and they can make others simply disappear.
But the arc of the universe bends away from them.
They can win battles, but the war for them already is lost.
I might add that being told by the Unspeakable that we're being observed is just another element of the game. The surveillance is sophisticated; if we weren't supposed to notice it, we wouldn't.
So remember the words of Graham Greene: "[Y]ou can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity"
Under the right circumstances, being violated -- and knowing it -- can end up saving your sanity.
Not to mention your life.
The watching game is more complex than simple surveillance. This is about feint, misdirection, counting guns, playfulness, contempt, training (theirs, so let's make it ours), talent spotting, and the nurturing of paranoia and ego.
For starters.
The Unspeakable outnumber us, out-gun us, and can wreak havoc on our material supply lines. They can buy-off many of us, and they can make others simply disappear.
But the arc of the universe bends away from them.
They can win battles, but the war for them already is lost.
I might add that being told by the Unspeakable that we're being observed is just another element of the game. The surveillance is sophisticated; if we weren't supposed to notice it, we wouldn't.
So remember the words of Graham Greene: "[Y]ou can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity"
Under the right circumstances, being violated -- and knowing it -- can end up saving your sanity.
Not to mention your life.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene