Thanks for posting this recording of Cory, he addresses a serious issue within our American society as well as our Internet society. Too many people are willingly trading freedom and privacy for security, both in real life and online. Many of these people are the followers, not the original leaders, of either society, and a very large group are children or maturing young adults.

Along with introducing my teenagers and their friends to such wonders of technology as the slide rule, in both plastic and wooden forms, and typewriters, where the printer and keyboard are in one piece, I have regaled them with stories of my 60’s childhood. Stories of when I carried a pocketknife to school each day and nobody died or even felt threatened (and I could feel masterful using a blade to tighten the screws on the desk in my 3rd grade classroom); being allowed to walk through the woods to school, a walk of about 45 minutes in length–alone; and many other insignificant, but telling, anecdotes that reveal today’s loss of privacy and freedom, and reveal the rise of conformance.

1984 was a few years back and I remember how significant it felt to me that we did not live in a world as described in the novel “1984″. Maybe I was wrong and just didn’t see that world for what it now is, or maybe I privately celebrated too early (another case of science fiction being a step or two ahead of reality).

Someday we will look back and see the path we have taken, until then, “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.”