This episode of Seriously Wrong is brought to you by either agitating yourself into a state of paralyzing paranoia or numbing yourself into a psychic callous.

We live in a terrifying, scary world, being watched constantly 24 hours a day seven days a week every minute of

every hour every action we take is recorded logged and stored in order to be

held against us and as a result of knowing that then extrapolating the worst

possible outcomes from it I have worked myself into a paralyzing paranoia. I've taken a little bit of a

different route. I think we have to ask the broad question, is it really so bad? Is there really so

much going on? But for the parts that we do know for sure, things like advertising, tracking,

the capabilities of the surveillance state, my phone tracks where I go and I can turn it off, but I don't really know if it's really turned off.

Stingray devices can pick up my telephone signals and my phone call could be recorded.

What I do is I just like the frog getting boiled.

I've heard these things slowly over time and I've tried to numb myself into a psychic callous. Get used to the idea, oh well, you know, this is part of technology, so it seems normal and inevitable.

For me, closing my eyes, even for a moment, even for my own mental well-being, just isn't an option.

You need to be constantly calculating, imagining someone just over your shoulder, just on

the other side of a camera, watching, logging, controlling, puppeting. It's important to look that

reality square in the eyes, even if it means that I can no longer function as a normal person

day-to-day. For me, that day-to-day functioning is really important.

And so I've built a strategy that relies on not remembering things that were disclosed

with the nature of online surveillance, even while acknowledging in many ways it is true,

pretending that it's not true.

That works for me.

So obviously the two of us, we've got a lot of big differences on this.

But one thing we do agree on is there's only two options.

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