When we talk
about our privacy, many people tend to think –or like to think- that we live in
an occidental world where free expression is secured and legitimized, but the
thing is that’s not true. Few weeks ago, a young man called Edward Snowden,
ex-agent of CIA –the most powerful agency of intelligence of the world-, had to
find a place to hide and tell the world that the US have been collecting
confidential information for years from the European Union by spying. He alerts
all of us about the danger of the social networks when we provide information
about ourselves, our location, our interests, etc. Privacy doesn’t exist. We
are living in a paranoid world that is constantly looking for people who represent
a threat to what has been called “national security”. By now, he is a menace
for security of US, so he has to escape and hide, just like Julian Assange,
creator of the polemic Wikileaks website, because in their intention of promote
the importance of free thinking, they became figures that, until now, have been
subject of controversy, mainly because powerful institutions that pursue them
have transmitted through the media the need to catch them for endangering peace
and security of worldwide. Could it be in fact that they fear that people get
information? And that question brings a second one: What are they hiding so
jealousy?
I think
when a nation proclaims policies and laws, they must think about common
wellbeing. It seems to be that’s not happening. Proclaim an alleged national
security means that there are enemies out there and we have to be careful. But
the enemy, in fact, doesn’t exist and there are many examples about this (Al Qaeda’s
case is one of them). Snowden and Assange aren’t enemies of common people; they
are enemies of the status quo, the system that those who occupy the seats of
power have been concerned to legitimize from generation to generation.
Noam
Chomsky makes this clear and he shows us how the media have contributed to legitimize
the status quo from the beginning, using extremely basic mechanisms.
I put some
video links below.
I hope you can comment this J
Have a nice
weekend!
hey Orielle,
ReplyDeleteI found this post really interesting. I am interested in this topic and it is unusual to find people alike. thanks for the links.