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Comment by rickmb | Hacker News Reader

If people accept it without complaining, it works exactly as intended.

Let's not assume the people implementing these measures are complete morons. There's power to be gained and money to be made from a submissive, unquestioning people.

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You forgot to add, "Wake up sheeple!"

We've been yelling at the sheeple long enough to know it's ineffective. What I want to know is what would it take to wake them?

Suffering will eventually wake them up, but by then the opportunities to do something about it will be considerably less.

"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

One wonders the level of suffering people actually endure by having to purchase new deodorant at the duty free.

I'm speaking more of economic suffering than the excesses of the evolving security aparatus.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-shows-1-2-people-103940...

See that's where i worry about myself.

My immediate thought is, how do i get myself on that gravy train :-)

Buy stocks in weapons, private military, makers of silly hats and A&E hospitals.

Proper civics and all-rounded technical and humanities education, preferably life long[1]. Without the humanities you will be left without an understanding of social repercussions, technical education helps you (in my experience) stay logical and methodological.

[1] Journalism, wikipedia articles, books, adult education classes, when good and proper are all education.

liberal arts were once considered the arts of the free - something that has usually been forgotten.

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/1013/

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