In the Sci-Fi cult movie “The
Matrix”[1] life
is an illusion created and controlled by machines. This control is represented
by the Service Secret Agents of the Government as guardians inside that illusion
whose mission is spying and keeping control over whatever sign of liberty and rebellious
behavior against the system by humanity. It is not odd at all The U.S. Secret Service
practices surveillance over humans had been the best inspiration for the
creators of this movie since this entity has characterized several years ago by
the reputation of keeping the world under control troughout spying practices. For these days (as in the past... and it will be in the future), the polemic about the Government
tactics to invade the privacy of people has released the discussion
about United Sates as "The Country of the Liberty” once again. The question is will it
have a possible solution? On the one hand, there is a background of terrorism
attacks and threats which could justify to some extent these intromissions
avoiding future possible attacks against The U.S. system and people. On the
other hand, is stated the polemic about how “the
paranoid”, which has become in a kind of illness truly contagious have
infected other instances from The U.S. (especially companies). In my opinion, regardless
the cause, the answer is the “Big brother”[2] practices will continue infecting society,
not only in The U.S. but over the whole world.[3]
After the fatidic attacks upon the world trade center at 9/11/01, all The United States was vulnerable. The Government
Intelligence Services (The Pentagon) failed in its task to protect the
integrity of its nation. Thus, the main learning lesson (undoubtedly) was
increased intelligence tactics and procedures of surveillance. In that way
the “Big Brother” practices -spying procedures- were considered as an effective
tool approved for The Government to weed out whatever sign of terrorism and
destroy it, regardless what they needed to do for getting it to protect the
country and their people, even going against constitutional rights of
privacy and liberty, to preserve “the liberty”. This is may be a great
paradox whose complexity is not easy to understand, but for governments or
mechanisms of power[4]
is really useful to keep propagating this illness.
Therefore, the background of
terrorism attacks and threats which has had The United States, might be a good
reason to be paranoid about the possibility of dangerous attacks everywhere (mostly
for The Government) and this somatic marker seems to have infected a
considerable range of entities which are investing and using technology to spying on
people. One example could be the discographic firms. If you download a song
-without pay- using one of these open source softwares you can find
surfing online, it is possible you receive a legal threat from one of those companies.
In addition, could be a considerable amount of companies –including
universities- which are surveilling on their people digging into their emails, callings,
etc[5]. That
is such an additional considerable hint propelled by this contagious effect.
The reality is we all are
being watched by the whole system through “agents”, that are not only from governments but from different instances, and our privacy and liberty seem
to be an illusion as in “The Matrix”. This surveillance situation won´t has a
closely solution since we started to be infected at the time we enter to be part of
“the system”, or to be part of this kind of Matrix
which is not fictitious. That is the reason why intrusions in the existence
of others, distrust and need for control, have been convened upon the setting up
of our human nature… If you had a ring with the power of making yourself invisible, what would you like to do?
[1] One of the most iconic Sci
–Fi films from the end of the last century (1999).
[2] The George Orwell’s Novel -
1984
[3] It is important clarify this
problem is not only related to U.S., many governments could have the same
illness
[4] This type of excuse doesn’t apply
only for U.S. Government.
[5] There are several cases which
support this affirmation…do the exercise to find some surfing the web
(ask to Google).
