earthmann

I agree with but one aspect of Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness program, its motto: scientia est potentia. Knowledge is power, and before we grant our government capacity for omniscience we’d need to believe it could weld the capacity for omnipotence. How can we do this when every decade provides an instance of elected officials conspiring to deceive the American people in order to fulfill some hidden, private agenda under the pretense of serving a greater good? I fail to understand how Poindexter, who confessed to multiple felonies for his role in Iran-Contra, doesn’t understand this.



On second thought, I also agree with Poindexter’s choice of logo for TIA: the all-seeing eye hovering atop the grand pyramid. While this emblem adorns our money, for many cynical Americans this mysterious symbol forebodes an Orwellian new world order. In Poindexter’s Utopia, Big Brother is indeed watching.