You’re a threat, too.
by Chris on Oct.31, 2007, under General Thoughts
If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear
If you’ve something to hide, you shouldn’t even be here
You’ve had your chance, now we’ve got the mandate
If you’ve changed your mind, I’m afraid it’s too lateWe’re concerned
You’re a threat
You’re not integral to the project
Update
Interestingly, today Bruce Schneier wrote an article about culture’s war on the unexpected that fits really nicely with this. It illustrates the flat-out falsehood of the statement “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear.”
I have a hard time reading this; I realize that it’s unlikely that any of this will happen to me, but that’s not because it can’t, it’s because on some level I’m already suppressed in that way. This stuff makes me sick inside.
November 29th, 2007 on 6:29 pm
This interview of the Playwright for “Doubt” on Charlie Rose has some of the same thinking. I quite like what he has to say… “to live in a state of doubt is to live in a dynamic present tense way, rather than to sit back on the couch of convictions …people who express doubt are deemed unpatriotic…”
People feel they have such certainty about what doesn’t fit and for what reasons and how best to rid our lil’ tunnel of living of that which doesn’t fit.
I have seen muhhhuch more threat when people act so much the same as “choose your herd” than the ones who are off in their own thinking, acting, world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYIReuLh9E