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article-josuah-I-Do-Not-Know-Do-Not-Ask-Me.mw (5120B) |
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1 .SH josuah |
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2 I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me |
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3 .2C 78v |
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4 . |
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5 .PP |
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6 The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anymore: |
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7 NSA (among others) is watching you (among others). |
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8 . |
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9 .PP |
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10 Does that change anything to my everyday life? |
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11 Probably not, they already were before you knew about it. |
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12 Should I do anything about it? |
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13 No answer. |
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14 The eternal doubt that modern society is famous for: |
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15 . |
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16 .QP |
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17 I do not know, do not ask me. |
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18 That question is weird anyway. |
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19 Let me go back to my life. |
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20 . |
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21 .PP |
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22 That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a supermarket and see the mess of wires, |
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23 tubes, cables and neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in white... |
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24 The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as if taken straight out of the Brazil |
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25 .FS |
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26 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ |
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27 .FE |
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28 movie. |
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29 . |
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30 .PP |
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31 A landscape that is in such opposition with the images printed onto every food product being sold, |
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32 picturing what more or less fits the collective imagery of "house of my grandparents in back-country", |
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33 promising a natural environment and suggest quality, authenticity, tradition to the buyer... |
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34 Pictures of a caring lady baking something appetizing, |
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35 a honest farmer offering a handful of home-grown vegetables or meat... |
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36 Where did they even find all these landscapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere, |
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37 tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses, wind turbines to put on these product background images? |
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38 . |
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39 .QP |
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40 I do not know, do not ask me. |
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41 That question is weird anyway. |
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42 Let me go back to my life. |
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43 . |
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44 .PP |
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45 How did such a landscape, |
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46 neon distopia pictures that seems straight out of a /r/cyberpunk |
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47 .FS |
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48 https://teddit.net/r/cyberpunk |
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49 .FE |
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50 post or the latest Blade Runner, |
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51 got invited into the cozzy bubble of the average citizen doing shopping? |
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52 .FS |
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53 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg |
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54 .FE |
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55 Who made these places so ugly? |
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56 Why do I feel like human is being considered like cattle in these kind of places? |
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57 . |
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58 .QP |
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59 I do not know, do not ask me. |
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60 That question is weird anyway. |
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61 Let me go back to my life. |
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62 . |
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63 .PP |
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64 What weird things am I even saying! |
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65 It is not like an NSA agent is sitting on every metal beams of these supermarket looking at passersby with an empty gaze. |
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66 There are cameras though. |
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67 What do they film? |
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68 Thieves? |
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69 Who is checking? |
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70 Software? |
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71 Peoples? |
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72 Are marketting managers looking at these pictures? |
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73 Of me too? |
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74 Right now? |
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75 What do they think of me? |
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76 Did they look at my hand hesitating between these two products? |
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77 . |
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78 .QP |
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79 I do not know, do not ask me. |
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80 That question is weird anyway. |
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81 Let me go back to my life. |
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82 . |
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83 .PP |
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84 Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on its empty backpack, |
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85 with a small cup filled with coins, |
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86 looking a bit panicked, |
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87 looking a bit dirty, |
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88 looking a bit lost, |
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89 sometimes even a bit drunk, |
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90 or is it dizziness from living outside? |
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91 Occasionally they will ask you for another coin to add to their small collection. |
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92 Passerbys offer them a lie such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no, sorry", |
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93 keep walking faster without looking, |
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94 and eventually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going before they got asked for more. |
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95 What did happen to them? |
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96 Did they choose to live here? |
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97 How can I know it will never happen to me? |
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98 Why do I feel bad if I do not give them what they ask? |
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99 Why do I feel bad if I give them what they ask? |
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100 . |
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101 .QP |
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102 I do not know, do not ask me. |
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103 That question is weird anyway. |
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104 Let me go back to my life. |
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105 . |
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106 .PP |
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107 Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here: |
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108 Writing this, I am not asking these questions to you, neither you are asking these questions to yourself. |
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109 The \fIplaces\fR we live in are suggesting these questions. |
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110 . |
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111 .PP |
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112 By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but displaying eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not even exist, |
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113 it is obvious that people will notice the disbalance between the two. |
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114 . |
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115 .PP |
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116 By placing cameras filming every square meter of such a place, or even a whole city, |
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117 it is obvious that people will wonder at some point, who is behind the screen reviewing these images. |
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118 . |
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119 .PP |
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120 The questions are left open. |
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121 Nothing is made to even give hint about the answer. |
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122 We are left in the doubt, |
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123 letting some comfort themself with "it is just in case of a burglary, only a police officer is going to watch" |
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124 or other claim "they are using these images to study how we think to better control us!"; |
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125 claims based upon convictions, not facts. |
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126 . |
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127 .PP |
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128 The technician installing these cameras up there has no hint either, |
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129 its manager just followed the recommandations of the mothership company, |
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130 itself getting directions from the investor group who purchased the brand, |
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131 who themself are only trying to keep-up with the trends in that domain. |
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132 . |
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133 .PP |
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134 Why would I care? |
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135 I stopped to care about these silly questions since long. |
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136 I came back to the real world for the better. |
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137 I live my life ignoring what happens around me and it works plenty well. |
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138 . |
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139 .QP |
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140 So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my gut, there is a voice whispering to me that something's wrong. |
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141 .FS |
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142 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q |
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143 .FE |
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144 . |
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145 .PP |
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146 The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is: |
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147 you do not get too many answers about how the whole anthill works. |
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