Monday, January 11, 2021

The Panopticon

Some good advice. I haven't always followed it as I should, but one needs to rethink these things, right, and repent of past foolishness.  

When woodworking with power tools, I routinely ask myself, "If I fell into this tool right now, what would happen?" If the risk is too great, I reorient myself and attempt to do the job safer. There's risk in all of it, or I could go back to hand saws and chisels. It's all about managing risk.

I think that every Christian and conservative (or whatever political strip which is not woke) needs to ask, "What if everything I ever said, did, or where I even went was instantly exposed to my spouse, church, employer, and eventually greater world?". 

You are standing over that dangerous tool every moment you use an iPhone, Android device, or PC. One must never stop asking that question so you understand the risks you are taking and what it means for your future.

The reality is that although we are dangerously close to living in an evil Panopticon that threatens us for our attempts to be righteous, and reality is that we have always lived in an eternal and eternally just Panotpicon, for God has always watched everything that we've ever done.

Luke 12:

2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

But with regard to the evil Panopticon of Big Tech and their allies; be cautious and be wary. 

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