The Real Reason for America’s Massive Surveillance Program

From the essay:

“The power/economic elite have always had one great fear, just as slave holders of the past, that the oppressed, who greatly outnumber the elite, and upon whose labor and control the elite’s impunity depends, will discover the ultimate power of the multitude. This is primarily the power to withhold their labor and sycophancy.”

The Contrary Perspective

Remain supine, commoners!

James Keye

The power/economic elite want to know the mood and movements of society just as meteorologists want to examine the measurements of weather systems. But rather than preparing for a tornado or hurricane, the elite wish to prepare for and prevent challenges to their impunity.  Massive surveillance is their primary method of prediction.  Together with privatized and militarized police forces and a propaganda-spouting media, the elite’s surveillance regimen constitutes a three-headed hydra that acts to keep the masses firmly in place and under control.

The power/economic elite have always had one great fear, just as slave holders of the past, that the oppressed, who greatly outnumber the elite, and upon whose labor and control the elite’s impunity depends, will discover the ultimate power of the multitude. This is primarily the power to withhold their labor and sycophancy.

Massive surveillance, which is growing ever more invasive by…

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