Big Brother

Hope and Change, Change we can Believe in. Just lies.  The machinery of government goes on regardless of what the people expect. The lever pullers just paint with different colors, use different rhetoric, but the end result is the same. They aren't even in charge. The levers are already well established and new ones are not permitted.  In order to stay on top of it all the system needs access to all the information it can gather. No information is useless and the more you have the better it is.  My God, millions of dollars are made in nanoseconds because access to information on market trends gives traders an edge. Knowing, who we are talking to and what we are talking about and how often is just like market analysis. Our overlords can use that information to make predictions on who is most likely to be problematic and take preemptive action.  I'm sure algorithms are already being used to predict public trends and who are likely targets should it become necessary.  Privacy is antithetical to control. Big Brother is here in ways Orwell couldn't possibly have imagined.