12-05-2014, 09:51 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:who needs drones when everyone has a phone with a camera? if you are involved in, or witnessing, a peaceful protest that is getting ugly, turn on your camera. A local problem that garnered national attention was here in Austin, TX, a female jogger (wearing earphones) was grabbed roughly from behind by police officers and charged with resisting arrest. Fortunately, a bystander had a smartphone with camera, so now all the facts are known. It is also a fact that the city has surveillance and traffic cams in the area.
The "surveillance state" can be put to work FOR us too.
Yes, but in far away Afghanistan or elsewhere, where you need to vector a missile loaded jet onto a target from above, domestic mobile phones don't do it for the boys in scrambled egg and medals.
Besides that the Pentagon must have their toys, that's what todays wars (and the new cold war) are all about ----- keeping the economy going with useless and detrimental expenditure that benefits the wealthy few over the many.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14