Look fabulous, this way for the gas
Ok here’s a thing.
There are rainbow coloured signs all over the gay village in Manchester, put up by city authorities, which say ‘look fabulous, you’re on CCTV’.
This could be the title of a book on the 21st century state.
— Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_HelenDale) June 6, 2019
Oh the puckish sense of humor of the security state.
Yes she does have the photo.
Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/sKV81Sqm92
— Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_HelenDale) June 6, 2019
The Challenge would be to get anything done.
With all the prancing and mincing and voguing and posing and etc. how do you get to the laundry? or the corner store for milk? or get the kids to soccer?
I remember during training once we went into the whole thing with security cameras as an example of people failing to think critically.
In Johannesburg they started popping up because we’ve got a major crime problem, and people figured the cameras would help.
Which they would have, if it wasn’t that Johannesburg wasn’t fundamentally a gold rush town that also clocks in as the world’s largest man-made forest.
So what you’ve got is roads that constantly twist and turn – and if those don’t defeat the cameras the fact that there is very probably a tree in the way does.
Now I’m looking at this Manchester pic, and I’m seeing some foliage there. I look it up and they’ve got a project on to become the City of Trees.
Which is to say, Big Brother is Watching – ineffectually.
I think it’s kind of cute. I always maintain that the world would be immensely burdened with boredom if they have to endure my life being broadcast 24/7. Fear of surveillance is odd. Looking fabulous requires aesthetics, something the world could do with more of.
@3:
Yes, that’s what I’ve always thought. Make people sit and watch the boring lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things about 95-99% of the time (made up statistics alert). Watch me walk from place to place, go to the store and buy ordinary things, and go back home to do ordinary things. Serves you right for watching me.
The real problem comes later, when those ordinary things are read as subversive and dangerous by the paranoid minds who set up this nightmarish system.