John Young
use of trusted cryptoids to front dubious surefire protection
this gets to the more actual situation with ideological short-circuiting of mass surveillance: the search for terrorists comparable to the hunt for Bigfoot, Yetis, Nessie in the collective, Chupacabra and others how much is the data dragnet comparable to evaluating populations in these fuzzy terms, as if any aberration or anomaly will snap-to-fit in some framework of illegality to be used for biased prosecutions how much of the technology infrastructure functions as a toy versus tool, allowing wild theories to be explored and mapped onto citizenry, everyone a suspect, an unidentified type that hovers around categories due to demographics, statistics or other affiliations, awaiting exploits in other words- the hunt for terrorists is like a hunt for cryptid beings, yet in the total surveillance, instead of the pinpointing and tracking of such, it appears the entire society is held within this mindframe, everyone a threat to someone who is surveilling behind the curtain, credit ratings, coupon users, shoppers who return faulty goods, people requesting warranty service - as if cheaters and stealers in that- instead of many distributed spotters saying they located an anomaly in the northwest sector, this spotting and informing instead is ubiquitous, a flurry of such calculations of potential and known infractions, from someones warped self-interest view not accounting for the larger balanced evaluation, hidden tallying for awhile now have considered how a Bigfoot would exist in the surveillance society, especially urban areas, such as those who try to drop-out of change identities - how far could you get with biometrics or facial recognition and forged documents until the alarms start activating and you are tracked and then cornered yet what if this is every single person, potentially, given the one- way politics involved, the oppressive aim of domination of those hidden and beyond public accountability as they hold the public to account in terms they do not recognize or themselves obey in this way, a population of bigfoots, a hidden network of those spotting, tracking, and surveilling, the short-circuiting of this as if in the public interest and involving democratic aims of citizens, instead a massive setup, ungrounded interpretations giving way to orchestration of near-term centralization of dictatorial power, feedback loop somewhere outside of representation anymore what if the cryptid ID is the Dictator running the works behind all this, and requires other spotters and tracking to corner the illegal activities that continue, despite all the tools available, seemingly used instead for playpen antics first and foremost, in that babbel allows this situation to remain undocumented in its conceptual terms and actual dimensions of existence