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We’re already at the point of hiding from the T.V. to write privately in your journal, and the state can put you on trial for erasing your phone memory, so that’s neat. I can’t imagine we’re too far away from getting a knock on your door if you don’t have any devices plugged in that they can monitor you through. Establishing personal privacy will eventually be considered reasonable suspicion. “What exactly are you trying to hide from us?”
25 years back it was considered a big privacy invasion that Windows XP would profile your system to ensure it get the right version of a security update. So determining if you needed 32bit or 64 bit. Home or Server. What version you were currently on.
Nowadays, most know who we are, what we are saying, who we are saying it to, scanning our photos, tracking your keyboard inputs, facial recognition, GPS tracking, wifi/bluetooth tracking, voice profiling, what you are reading, what sites you are visiting etc. And all this happened in 25 years.
I fear how things will move in the next 25 years. It all feels like they are locking people down so that they cannot push back against hash changes coming down the pipe. Dropping living standards accelerated by the dual problem of declining resources and climate blow back leading to power structures that try to secure itself using any tools possible.
Watch them in the effort of doing this use tribal justice by turning once mundane things into a vice, and then using said vice against people, all cataloged and analyzed with decades of data fed into the data set.
A few years back, that really felt like where things were going. Now, everything's coming apart; you can't really have a quiet sleepwalk into the great benevolent authority watching everything, when it's not clear which authority that would be.
Loud shifts into surveillance are possible, like sometimes happen after a new regime is established, but that's a different beast. People will kinda know it's fucked, even if they go along with it.
It’s going to be a one way or the other kind of deal, we’ll see how it shakes out.
The fact im storing up on dozens of antipsychotics (cause yay i was feeling better and i didnt need but my doc wanted me on them) now doesnt sound such a bad idea, maybe i can just absolutely dismantle all my brain functions into death or becoming a vegetal, you know, live life but keep your options opened, I'd hate to live like a bitch like that, always being watched like if i was on reality TV or some bullshit, i read a bit on the TV stuff (i think you are referencing 1984 or bnw maybe) but i dont have a tv, a pc is more than enough
I don't see many ways out really, its depressing
No, you should take your pills. Those aren't the kind of pills you stop taking when you're better.
From what you write, I feel you know nothing about the business of psychiatry, I'm prescribed antipsychotics while not having any psychosis or symptoms that could be helped by its use, I've been prescribed wrong things multiple times in the past aswell, and being told "just believe this doctor because the doctor is the authority and knows best" some of the meds i have taken in the doses i was prescribed back when i trusted the doctors made me actually suicidal (outside of the organ damage of course)
You will know if you ever get into taking psychiatric meds and how that works. I WISH it wasn't like this, I really do. But it just isn't. I was never warned of any side effects short or long term by any of my doctors, and when i had them, unless they were like super apparent like not sleeping for 4 days or something, they were hand waved away.
My intention is not to be mean or dismissive to you, but I do feel in this one case at least, you don't have the experience required to know how it works in reality (and not only what the media tells you "stay on your meds!")
I do take some pills selectively as I've read on them and their usefulness in my case, even suggesting pill changes in my schema, to pretty good success actually.