"The deadliest enemies of nations... "

                                                         surveillance state politics

i am of the opinion that half of this country
is spying
on the
other half of this country

but from what i can tell
it is not the first time that
citizens have become neurotically
obsessed
with other peoples business

now I think it is a citizens responsibility to
take notice of what appears to be
unlawful acts

but most people are either so
narrow in their experiences
that they do not know what
may be a criminal act
or so jaded
by being around criminal activity
that they think
everyone is engaged in crime

somewhere between these two extremes
is the truth
but as Mark Twain said
"Truth is rare, let us economize it"
or something to that effect

my own experience is that society
is neurotic and a person would
do well to take that into account
when dealing with the population
at large

"The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes;
they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal
enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation
blessed above all nations is that nation in whom the civic genius of
the people does the saving day by day, acts without external
picturesqueness' by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting
corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people
knowing the true men and women when they see them, and preferring
them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks."  William James (1897)


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Philo Vance