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Not in a private home, but in an assessment centre ...
Social services 'set up CCTV camera in couple's bedroom'
Social services 'set up CCTV camera in couple's bedroom'
Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
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What for some is the unthinkable today, becomes the norm tomorrow.
If you took two snapshots of time, one of them here now today, and the other one say towards the dog-end of last century, you will find quite a different nation in terms of its security apparatus, security concerns, and the degree to which security is in the average person's mind.
But in looking at and comparing those two snapshots in time, i'd just like to ask what is actually going on in britain that has caused such a shift in how we approach security, and if it is justified or not.
With cameras all over the country, just about the last place for them to be fitted is in actual homes. I fail to see why such an event is not likely in the near to mid-term future when we look how far we've gone down the security road since about a decade ago.
Security is the new freedom, welcome to the modern world.
And let's not forget the new culture of living one's life out in public - big brother contestants actually want to be on camera, as do so many others in this celebrity-obsessed era.
Have a read of ben elton's blind faith. Those cameras are in everyone's house... and much of the rest of his future vision is already in the present.
If you took two snapshots of time, one of them here now today, and the other one say towards the dog-end of last century, you will find quite a different nation in terms of its security apparatus, security concerns, and the degree to which security is in the average person's mind.
But in looking at and comparing those two snapshots in time, i'd just like to ask what is actually going on in britain that has caused such a shift in how we approach security, and if it is justified or not.
With cameras all over the country, just about the last place for them to be fitted is in actual homes. I fail to see why such an event is not likely in the near to mid-term future when we look how far we've gone down the security road since about a decade ago.
Security is the new freedom, welcome to the modern world.
And let's not forget the new culture of living one's life out in public - big brother contestants actually want to be on camera, as do so many others in this celebrity-obsessed era.
Have a read of ben elton's blind faith. Those cameras are in everyone's house... and much of the rest of his future vision is already in the present.
I pause all the time and consider this. I cannopt believe how many people are (a) absolutely incapable of applying any sort of critical thought to any information ; (b) how absolutely fucking gullible they are and (c) how easy it would be to panic this fucking country at the moment. I blame Diana ...
a) blame the food
b) same
c) i'm interested in why britain has got itself in this mess. Before we dealt with things like the NI terror threat in the great british stoical manner. Not any more, we need our colour-coded terror levels so that we know how to think for this week or month.
As for blaming diana, she sure was a litmus test for the nation. But she was only the symptom that uncovered what was already there. Fixing the symptom at the expense of going after the cause seems to be rife. These political decisions are always after the horse has bolted. Stop the horse from leaving in the first place!
Antother example of non-law enforcement agencies pissing about with things they know nothing about ...
Whilst the intention may be good they need to understand the legal implications of what they do ... and clearly they haven't the faintest idea.
If you ask me ... media fuckwittery: beginning, middle and end of.
The power that they have, and how they use it, is simply not the subject of debate that it should be because THEY control all the media of debate and so unless we can persuade (or direct) them to engage, there is pretty much fuck all that we can do.
(Interesting how stop number one for a coup d'etat is the radio/TV station and stop number two is the print media ...)
If you ask me ... media fuckwittery: beginning, middle and end of.
The power that they have, and how they use it, is simply not the subject of debate that it should be because THEY control all the media of debate and so unless we can persuade (or direct) them to engage, there is pretty much fuck all that we can do.
(Interesting how stop number one for a coup d'etat is the radio/TV station and stop number two is the print media ...)
Well, i agree in the main, but people still buy them!
And i would say that if the people really want to debate something, it is debated, at the least in talkback radio. I often hear so much complaining about the media in britain, but people continue to buy the papers.
Although i do understand their sales are declining, so maybe there's a shaft of hope to hang onto...
It's an interesting mix and how they impact on each other: the public, the media, and the political leaders. I do think though that you judge the national psyche based on that mix and how they interrelate, not on just one of them in isolation.
I would characterise that medium as "ranting", not "debating"!
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