Well people who salivate over military tech tend not to attend protests. There are many people who (probably correctly) believe the tech won’t be used on them because they would never do anything against the status quo and belong to an economic strata + dominant ethnic / religious group.
I’m not disagreeing but I am saying that unfortunately I think many voters are completely fine with the boomerang effect.
A lot of the people who were attending protests against COVID measures (or otherwise engaged in civil disobedience in public) when the President was a Democrat are very excited about measures that would have been very effective against them and will be again.
>believe the tech won’t be used on them because they would never do anything against the status quo and belong to an economic strata + dominant ethnic / religious group.
More or less identical thought pattern as when someone on HN is gushing about punitive fines for petty civil nuisance behavior or noncompliance with bureaucratic stuff, something everyone here should be familiar with.
The thing is if things turn so far south that the milquetoast WASP suburbanite is now in some real danger, the cellphone networks being tapped is the least of their worries. Kangaroo courts don't need real evidence. Neither do militias conducting their own frontier justice.
A lot of these people are actually fine with their family being affected.
They are operating under a parasocial delusion that the president knows about their problem, cares about their problem, and will fix their problem so any issues are transitory and don’t require them to update their beliefs
Everybody used to believe in gods, some people still do, the predisposition to beliefs in illusory protective father figures is still present in our genomes.
Uhh, there is no used to (past tense). Its important to have a faith-based belief system you can fall back on when you are subjected to torture.
I'm with the greeks on this, which is what they try to communicate in and through their stories.
TL;DR
The gods exist, they walk among us, they are powerful, they look just like humans, they are intelligent cruel deceptive and capricious. They are not there for your benefit.
You survive your encounters with them by being observant and measured, and follow a framework based in objective reality which could be intelligence and a fair bit of luck; or you don't.
Not all religions have all powerful protective father figures that will shield you from everything stunting and coddling you. Most in fact don't if you pay attention.
This gem is littered throughout greek mythology especially heavily in the Odyssey.
I’m not disagreeing but I am saying that unfortunately I think many voters are completely fine with the boomerang effect.