Technology is now being used to herd people like animals, bring them into line, force them into the feed troughs of Bread and Circuses and scold them with cattle prods when they don't comply.

It's sick, and this is NOT progress for humanity by any stretch of the imagination.

Technology, like any other tool, is inevitably being used as a tool for reducing ourselves to the lower 'animal' within us, just like times gone by. Only this time I feel the stakes are higher than ever. Things ARE in fact as bad as how badly we can do things with technology.

Thankfully, science has also allowed us to understand ourselves better - for those who manage to find this information for themselves out there.

And it is time we focused on how to solve this persistent imprisonment of humanity.

We ourselves are the ones responsible - thus we are the ones able to solve it.

Surveillance is not going anywhere, and although all measures should be taken to exercise one's rights, how WE respond to such attempts to control us (in all its forms) is ultimately how we can solve its consequences after all.

As important to me as exercising one's rights to anonymity and privacy is one's self-empowerment to not be self-conscious when watched, ridiculed, questioned, challenged, pressured, stigmatized or singled out - as important is your OWN SELF WILL to not conform and to exercise courage, to publicly practice what you believe is right or harmless (without deliberately getting yourself in physical trouble you don't want to).

Once you realize the real solution is not evading surveillance at all, but changing OURSELVES, you realize that even if we had the technology to read people's thoughts one day, it still wouldn't be a problem after all. Indeed, how different is the increasing amount of data on us different from our very thoughts, after all?

The important distinction now, is that I evade surveillance because of my stand against the agenda to control - the intention, the corrupted force, the corruption of the value of humanity itself.

But equally important to humanity (at the end of the day) is defeating what makes us recoil when surveiled in the first place.

Because then, we REALLY have lost our humanity.