>>8769
> I'm having a harder and harder time understanding where this is coming from. I think it's an ideology and self-righteousness that's long been embedded in the west and keeps taking new forms.
No, there's absolutely nothing new about it. Human nature hasn't changed AT ALL in the past 6000+ years on record.
>People who feel that their sense of morality is objective and must be forced on everybody else get positions of power and the cycle repeats.
Doesn't help matters that there's been a continuous attack on media, academia, religion, and culture for the past century (And longer).
>Technology both makes their surveillance more wide sweeping and less effective at the same time. The lengths they'll go for something this stupid is so bizarre though from an outsider's perspective. Why?
Because of control.