I actually meant for it to be a greatly disturbing title. It’s hard to imagine people in the west accepting torture, but it would have been just as hard to imagine people in the west accepting this level of surveillance just 20 years ago.
speaking of the societal frog-boiling, have you ever read [or witnessed a live production of] No Exit[1] ? could warrant a [re]visit, now that "social" is more likely to modify "media" or "engineering" than "person" ...
I actually meant for it to be a greatly disturbing title. It’s hard to imagine people in the west accepting torture, but it would have been just as hard to imagine people in the west accepting this level of surveillance just 20 years ago.