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Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
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How convenient that this seems to happen so often when power faces accountability.
I guess its just silly butterfingers right? Can happen to anyone.
I'm sure you or I would get the same grace and awshucks understanding.
/s
Perfect explanation /s
Imagine there was some sort of drug that had the ability to recode culture in any of its users. You take this drug and suddenly you stop seeing all figures of authority as such. Any person might profess jurisdiction over a particular persons, geography, or ideological framework… but you just can’t see how any of that is significant anymore. You start to realize, after having consumed this drug, that you have no idea how to take care of yourself. Worse, you have no idea who within your community you can rely on for necessities. Given this concern, you begin to host gatherings where the goal is to produce a network of community support and knowledge sharing. Where can you find water? Where shouldn’t you find water? How can you clean water? Who has vital resources during a storm? Who knows how to make tools? … this goes on until the group develops an ability to be self sustaining.
Now imagine all your friends and neighbors took this drug, as well as their friends and neighbors. What would happen to the current power structures? I’m curious how much of there power is actually just given to them freely by our own culture, while sustained somewhat by the technology they employ.
In case you missed it, the drug is social media.