I don’t want to lose my freedom. I don’t want to be monitored and controlled, becoming an autonatom, a number with no individual identity. That is death. There is a reason our founding fathers risked their lives for freedom. Many died for freedom. Why is it so important? Without freedom you can’t be you, expressing yourself. Your words and thoughts become NOTHING. YOU BECOME NOTHING. You become just a cog in a machine with people at the top who dictate what you’re allowed to say, what you can do, where you can go. I just had a chilling thought. My husband and I were talking about illegal immigration, saying things that were just facts but would “sound bad” not being acceptable in the leftist climate today, and taken wrong. Anyway, I thought of all the future dystopian craziness where you are “heard” through a TV of sort. Where everything you say is monitored by the government. Too many people to keep track of? No, they can find you, know what you believe, how you feel etc., such as is used by social media companies, a sophisticated “smart detection flagging” technology. A form of an algorithm. I had a cold feeling as I thought I couldn’t talk freely, with some kind of consequence. Think about it.
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Losing our freedom 