“We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure.” Deep State Book:Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State Source: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
“Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free yourself it will not collect the story of your life as an diosyncratic, veteran and frame you in court as a Taliban sympathiser, and you’re all of this information is potentially available to estate that does have the capacity to do all that if it can be collected, it can be presumably subpoenaed there will never be a state from which there is no good reason to hide the radical transparency. We have accepted step-by-step these past years is a bad we have made that we and the people with the guns in cages will stay on good terms.” Deep State Book:Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State Source: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
“Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top” Deep State Book:Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State Source: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State