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Privacy

reviewed by FranksWildYears

FranksWildYear s
03/28/2007

Privacy 5

Bill Maher from Real Time:

Oh, please, Americans don't want privacy. They want attention! They'll put a camera in their shower and show it on the Internet! To get on television, they'll marry strangers and eat a cow's rectum, and ice dance with Todd Bridges. They're trying to get on a show called "Big Brother"! We are a nation of exhibitionists from "me" to shining "me." And what we really fear isn't that someone's listening; it's that no one's listening. This whole country is one big desperate cry for somebody to listen to "listen to me, photograph me, Google me, read my blog!" "Read my diary; read my memoir. It's not interesting enough? I'll make sh*t up!" You know that I could go on the Internet right now under my alternate screen name, "CherryXXX69," and get complete strangers to email me a picture of their scrotum. I tell you, this country gave the finger to privacy a long time ago.   

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EschewObfuscation commented 978 days ago.
Wow. Nobody could quite articulate it like Bill Maher. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

FranksWildYears commented 978 days ago.
Sometimes the truth hurts.

EschewObfuscation commented 978 days ago.
Somehow, I don't imagine that depicting "Americans" by describing himself "hurts" Bill Maher. I'm quite sure he has no idea the irony of HIM proferring this description of others. Most Americans are hard-working people who seldom pay attention to the news. Describing Americans by this sliver of the population isn't what I'd characterize as the truth hurting.

FranksWildYears commented 978 days ago.
Now I get it. We're discussing whether or not Bill Maher is an ass, as opposed to whether America has lost all respect for the notion of privacy in the age of reality TV and the web cam. No argument, he's an ass. But I think he's right, we ask the government to protect our privacy then give away personal and possibly intimate details information about our shopping habits just to get a few points toward free air travel. Like so many things we think it's somebody elses responsibility to look out for our interests.
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