Here’s the multicultural sales pitch: put people with different histories, religions, loyalties, taboos, grievances, and political interests into the same country, remove the common culture, declare every inherited standard oppressive, and then wait for everyone to become interchangeable citizens united by an enthusiastic commitment to municipal recycling. It’s a beautiful idea, provided you have never…
Tag: Surveillance
Surveillance State Support
I used to be dead set against this whole surveillance state thing. I mean, come on, it sounded like the worst kind of dystopian nightmare, right? Cameras everywhere, watching you buy your groceries, filming you while you’re just trying to scratch an itch in public without starting a riot. Big Brother with a better battery…