That's my point. And I wouldn't even claim that we deserve to go to hell or that we are fatally flawed.
We are in the spotlight in the world and I swear I wish people would remember that when they evaluate the USA vis à vis other nations.
We should set the highest of standards for ourselves. And like any good 'American exceptionalist' we should achieve those high standards we set for ourselves.
But when we fail to achieve that standard we need to remember to evaluate ourselves in the context of the world at large, and in our own nation's history.
If the worst thing that our government did to us today was to `tee` our Reddit memes to /dev/utah and then not look at them then maybe, just maybe we're not as screwed as HN thinks we are. Even my own grandma knows that the Internet Never Forgets.
As I've said before, we may look at these programs and decide to switch up the controls, gut them all, or something in between. But this place can be such an echo chamber sometimes... and the cynicism is absolutely toxic, especially as it mixes and interferes with the very-necessary skepticism that should be often employed.
That's my point. And I wouldn't even claim that we deserve to go to hell or that we are fatally flawed.
We are in the spotlight in the world and I swear I wish people would remember that when they evaluate the USA vis à vis other nations.
We should set the highest of standards for ourselves. And like any good 'American exceptionalist' we should achieve those high standards we set for ourselves.
But when we fail to achieve that standard we need to remember to evaluate ourselves in the context of the world at large, and in our own nation's history.
If the worst thing that our government did to us today was to `tee` our Reddit memes to /dev/utah and then not look at them then maybe, just maybe we're not as screwed as HN thinks we are. Even my own grandma knows that the Internet Never Forgets.
As I've said before, we may look at these programs and decide to switch up the controls, gut them all, or something in between. But this place can be such an echo chamber sometimes... and the cynicism is absolutely toxic, especially as it mixes and interferes with the very-necessary skepticism that should be often employed.