Politically Private

 TPSPS

Tech and the Private Side of Poli Sci

Technology, Privacy, and Political Science

     subject from Kate, again 

Hardware, Software, hard and soft, bones and fat

Computers, The Internet, Smart Phones, cip, sip

and The Matrix (of your mother)(the movie)(the “reality”)

Bits and bytes, morsels and things to chew on

Data, (star trek character) (god and going on dates)(going on data, lol)

0 and 1, binary, stream and flow (suck and fuck)

   (bi, hole and phallus) (penetrating systems) (digital, fingers, fin grr)

   Speed of light, fiber optic cables vs. instantaneous (entanglement)

      Tangled in each other’s arms, avoiding imperial entanglements

God, The Matrix character (guide, guard, goad, gay, gi, guy, go, goo)

    Televisions (TV: thrill of victory, thirst for vengeance)

         Native American vision quest

         Morpheus, the god of dreams (tell a vision)

         Vampires, matrix characters (to add to the already replete genre)

     Bible, dream interpretation, dream books, REM (band)

God, Star Trek (Q)

Neo and God, who chooses the actuality from the range of possibility?

Choice 

Cho ice

Psy cho logy

Breaking the ice, ice breakers (mints, boat), margaret cho, cho-cho, psy ops, neuromancer

ice, justice, malice, police, office, icing on the cake, immigration customs enforcement

Freedom, possibility, options, choices (malcolm gladwell’s bit on pasta sauce)

   Is freedom an illusion, is reality determined, are there inflection points

Alternate realities, alternate universes, multiverse of psyches on (our little dot, planet earth)

    Dot calm

“neutralize them” - rage against the machine

monitoring, surveillance

Prayer, getting in people’s heads

Persuasion, moral suasion, make them an offer they can’t refuse

Art of conviction, public relations, advertising, mass media

Intel, intelligence agencies

Military readiness, battlefield efficacy

authoritarianism, 1984, big brother (am, haven’t read)

Techies, spies, agents, flys on the wall, lol

Going rogue, like Snowden.  Snowed in. White, like pope. GR, god/religion.

Collective unconscious (made conscious?), secrets made public

Privacy and shame, don’t tell, don’t ask, sin

    “Universal theistic morality”, mind control, schizophrenia

The world as a whole, integrated, interlocking mechanism, system, machine

    Choices “instantiate” karma

    The Secret, -Rhonda

Matrix

Trix are for kids

Mate tricks (magical)

Ma, matrix (womb), ma/3/10

dominatrix, matrician!  (patrician, patrix?)

Buzzing in your head, blinking, tapping the steering wheel, the twitch

Heard thought, like prayer, holy spirit (great minds think alike)

    (greater minds think different! ). -apple (ubiquitous)

“Alright”, all good, all right? vs. law, justice, morality inculcation

Superman above the law (salt of the earth) (SM, s and m)

   Superman like neo, other flyers.  Jesus (south park).  

     Bird is the word.   Caw, catch a wave.  

   above, superior, highness - mountain climbers, sitting on top of the world

venge, revenge

tribution, retribution

karma, karpa

Karmapa, carpathian, madagascar, central african republic

justice, just ice (v. Global warming)

Some say the world will end in fire, ice will suffice… -poem

World without end - catholic mass

How public is thought?  Hypnosis. Reading minds. Or blogs.

The Source / God? - who, what, where, when, why, how?   Tech!

How powerful is “all-powerful”?  (range, ken)

Absolute power corrupts absolutely?, applies to God?

God as devil, then (like Master and Margarita, or Devil’s Advocate, etc)