Security states tend to devour themselves in Orwellian layers of deeper and deeper secrecy and deceit.<\/p>\n
When I look at the surveillance society being constructed, I can\u2019t help but think of C.S. Lewis\u2019 vision of hell in the intro to the The Screwtape Letters:<\/p>\n
[Hell is] an official society held together entirely by fear and greed. On the surface, manners are normally suave. Rudeness to one\u2019s superiors would obviously be suicidal; rudeness to one\u2019s equals might put them on their guard before you were ready to spring your mine. For of course \u201cDog eat dog\u201d is the principle of the whole organisation.<\/p>\n
Everyone wishes everyone else\u2019s discrediting, demotion, and ruin; everyone is an expert in the confidential report, the pretended alliance, the stab in the back. Over all this their good manners, their expressions of grave respect, their \u201ctributes\u201d to one another\u2019s invaluable services form a thin crust. Every now and then it gets punctured, and the scalding lava of their hatred spurts out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A society built on spies and lies will die.\u00a0\u00a0Only in Christ is there truth and love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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