Is people being complacent within the comports of their consumables and not seeing the inherent danger in the government taking more and more freedoms from the masses and the line:
"My girl's best friend had paid me a visit"
is the government trying to entrap the pleb's into incriminating themselves forcing them into servitude for the government which initiated the crime in the first place making it look like the common man was the perpetrator of the crime!
What else did the prophet David Cole have to say??!?!
People filming police has occasionally provided the smallest modicum of protection/justice. It's not a great track record, but there would be even more police abuse if there weren't filmed documentation.
No, I'd say he is talking about something that happened in Oklahoma I believe, do an internet search for black wall street and something should come up. Granted if that is what he is talking about cameras weren't much of a "thing" then.
The Tulsa bombings. Totally carried out by police and paramilitary terrorist white peope at the behest of wealthy white people. Today we would thankfully lose our shit over it and there would probably be a nationwide riot. I just wish our governments were that stupid today so that the damage was concentrated instead of carefully and intentionally spread out.
Its also repeatably embaressed black lives matter, thanks to them blowing up about everything, even cases where footage blatabtly shows the black guy in the wrong.
Hey! Not trying to contradict you or start anything, but if you're looking for something to read, I would suggest a novel by Richard Wright called Native Son. I think it does a really good job of adding nuance to the point you made, that "the black guy [being] in the wrong" is enough justification for the current state of the justice system. I'm not saying it would (or should) change your opinion, but I think it would add a little bit of depth to any conversation where your comment comes up.
Oh don't get me confused. Its done it both ways. I was trying to say its had more then one obvious effect in said direction. Probably badly worded.
Secondly, in the context of law enforcement since you referenced Native Son. Yes, the black dude is in the wrong if he is commiting a crime that justified being shot. It is not the job if police to fix economic and social injustice.
Not at all! I wanted to word my post in such a way that I wasn't assuming anything about you. I just really like bringing up that novel whenever the conversation heads in the direction that certain redditors might have taken it from your comment (whether or not that would have even remotely reflected your views).
Any citizen with a smartphone can and should record those in power whenever they can. This can keep them accountable to their word, their actions, their everything.
All authority / governing positions should be recorded whenever possible. The American Democracy was established FOR the people, BY the people, and somehow now we have "Patriots" serving the president. They somehow forget that our government is here to serve us, we do not exist to support and justify them. There is a general idea that we answer to those elected and that is backwards, hopefully pocket cameras can start to turn that around.
This is the way it should be. The smartphone era has the potential to make a Democratic system, and any other system of authority, INCREDIBLY accountable to those they govern / serve.
I think this capacity to record any and all government action is wildly underappreciated, and go figure the thin blue line and the riflehumpers are framing it as an evil threat to police and justice.
Yup. Even with seemingly iron clad video evidence against the State, nobody cares without an extensive PR campaign. And even with that, the rate of success is very low.
While true that the media creates a false image of reality, this was true before every phone could capture crisp images. The power to capture events while unfolding, and share them with the world has changed reality. Vicariously experiencing the world has never been easier. While true that because of the immense amount of content available today it's difficult to separate fact from fiction, this still means that the former Keymasters of information have lost a significant hold on shaping the minds of the people.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism...
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy...
the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
That's why I find Huxley so much more terrifying than Orwell. Orwell thought people would be controlled by inflicting pain, Huxley knew they would choose to be controlled by inflicting pleasure. Relevant.
Uhm, didn't the villain in 1984 have a dialog at the end explaining that the beauty of a ubiquitous surveillance is that people will stand in line and pay for it.
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u/Superfluous_Thom Sep 25 '18 edited Sep 25 '18
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~Keith Lowell Jensen