We have Orwell, Bradbury, Huxley and Vonnegut explainig how a society may lose its freedom and they seem to expound even more on its surrealistic consequences.

The authors give us cases on how we lose our freedoms by not actively checking the government that leads us and they imagine how our collective lives may turn out.

Yestrday there was a bipartisn commitment within the House which was backed by the president to coninue excessive surveillance on us. We all should be able to understand that tis data minining will be used as leverage against us – not just the terrorists.

It is unfortunate that not many care to tie the Orwells, Huxley’s and the rest of the authors who describe govrnmental usurpation of our freedom with what Obama, the NSA and congresss are collectively doing to hurt our freedom and our right to privacy.

Privacy lost is a freedom that is lost and the books we read in high school and college are attempted – yet fictional textbook -cases of how freedoms are lost. Unfortunately, we do not tie in the practical case of our own period with fictional textbook cases of how individual freedoms are lost and how they are exploited against the society that has lost it.

A society that expects to rely on a textbook to show us how we will lose our freedoms is a society that will lose it. Life and loss is very rarely a textbook case. However, the textbook case is revealed after it has manifested. What is happening now is tomorrow’s textbook case of how a society loses its freedom.

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