Being Turned Into Sheep, Willingly

THE WAY IT LOOKS NOW, we, the U.S.A., are going to be stuck with big brother. Only now, it will be a more corporate big brother, fittingly. Everything we do or say will continue to be monitored and recorded by the feds, as always, but will henceforth be stored and kept by some huge telecommunications corporation or other; one of the fortune five hundred type which already owns and controls America, everything, and everyone in it, lock, stock, and barrel. So, really, after all the fightin' and fussin', little or nothing will have changed, after all, for which we should most assuredly not be surprised. Big brother was bound to arrive someday - and, well, He has. When Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were writing their warnings back in the nineteen thirties, they were looking at places like NAZI Germany and Stalinist Russia, but they always said it could happen anywhere, and it has. Its a damned shame, too, because there was a time, long ago, when this country had the promise of becoming the world's first functioning democracy. Or was there? Most people don't really know what a democracy is, and don't really care if they live in one, or are owned and controlled by masters, as long as they are safe and secure. The Constitution clearly intends us to be governed by the wealthy elite, Madison's 'better sort", and, indeed we are. But to be absolutely helpless in a vast electronic network of control which is operated by our corporate masters in the form of government is almost beyond anything even Orwell or Huxley conceived. Just think how much information we all freely share on Facebook, utterly oblivious to the implications or possibilities. We are all of us both consumer and commodity, just as the corporate complex is both the economy and the government. Just keep us decently fed, clothed, and housed, and we're down with whatever.