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1 .SH josuah
2 I Do Not Know, Do Not Ask Me
3 .2C 78v
4 .
5 .PP
6 The post-Snowden era is marked by a new fact that cannot be ignored anymore:
7 NSA (among others) is watching you (among others).
8 .
9 .PP
10 Does that change anything to my everyday life?
11 Probably not, they already were before you knew about it.
12 Should I do anything about it?
13 No answer.
14 The eternal doubt that modern society is famous for:
15 .
16 .QP
17 I do not know, do not ask me.
18 That question is weird anyway.
19 Let me go back to my life.
20 .
21 .PP
22 That same doubt that occurs when you look up on a supermarket and see the mess of wires,
23 tubes, cables and neon lighting, barely even hidden, at best painted in white...
24 The worst scene of industrial warehouse, as if taken straight out of the Brazil
25 .FS
26 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
27 .FE
28 movie.
29 .
30 .PP
31 A landscape that is in such opposition with the images printed onto every food product being sold,
32 picturing what more or less fits the collective imagery of "house of my grandparents in back-country",
33 promising a natural environment and suggest quality, authenticity, tradition to the buyer...
34 Pictures of a caring lady baking something appetizing,
35 a honest farmer offering a handful of home-grown vegetables or meat...
36 Where did they even find all these landscapes of backcountry without phone line everywhere,
37 tracktors, alsphalt, cattle warehouses, wind turbines to put on these product background images?
38 .
39 .QP
40 I do not know, do not ask me.
41 That question is weird anyway.
42 Let me go back to my life.
43 .
44 .PP
45 How did such a landscape,
46 neon distopia pictures that seems straight out of a /r/cyberpunk
47 .FS
48 https://teddit.net/r/cyberpunk
49 .FE
50 post or the latest Blade Runner,
51 got invited into the cozzy bubble of the average citizen doing shopping?
52 .FS
53 https://theuws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermarkt.jpg
54 .FE
55 Who made these places so ugly?
56 Why do I feel like human is being considered like cattle in these kind of places?
57 .
58 .QP
59 I do not know, do not ask me.
60 That question is weird anyway.
61 Let me go back to my life.
62 .
63 .PP
64 What weird things am I even saying!
65 It is not like an NSA agent is sitting on every metal beams of these supermarket looking at passersby with an empty gaze.
66 There are cameras though.
67 What do they film?
68 Thieves?
69 Who is checking?
70 Software?
71 Peoples?
72 Are marketting managers looking at these pictures?
73 Of me too?
74 Right now?
75 What do they think of me?
76 Did they look at my hand hesitating between these two products?
77 .
78 .QP
79 I do not know, do not ask me.
80 That question is weird anyway.
81 Let me go back to my life.
82 .
83 .PP
84 Going out, one might encounter someone sitting on its empty backpack,
85 with a small cup filled with coins,
86 looking a bit panicked,
87 looking a bit dirty,
88 looking a bit lost,
89 sometimes even a bit drunk,
90 or is it dizziness from living outside?
91 Occasionally they will ask you for another coin to add to their small collection.
92 Passerbys offer them a lie such as "I do not have cash", or a kind word like "no, sorry",
93 keep walking faster without looking,
94 and eventually stops paying the tax and quickly keep going before they got asked for more.
95 What did happen to them?
96 Did they choose to live here?
97 How can I know it will never happen to me?
98 Why do I feel bad if I do not give them what they ask?
99 Why do I feel bad if I give them what they ask?
100 .
101 .QP
102 I do not know, do not ask me.
103 That question is weird anyway.
104 Let me go back to my life.
105 .
106 .PP
107 Let's not get fooled or reverse the roles here:
108 Writing this, I am not asking these questions to you, neither you are asking these questions to yourself.
109 The \fIplaces\fR we live in are suggesting these questions.
110 .
111 .PP
112 By building a supermarket out of a warehouse but displaying eye-catchy pictures of a scenery that does not even exist,
113 it is obvious that people will notice the disbalance between the two.
114 .
115 .PP
116 By placing cameras filming every square meter of such a place, or even a whole city,
117 it is obvious that people will wonder at some point, who is behind the screen reviewing these images.
118 .
119 .PP
120 The questions are left open.
121 Nothing is made to even give hint about the answer.
122 We are left in the doubt,
123 letting some comfort themself with "it is just in case of a burglary, only a police officer is going to watch"
124 or other claim "they are using these images to study how we think to better control us!";
125 claims based upon convictions, not facts.
126 .
127 .PP
128 The technician installing these cameras up there has no hint either,
129 its manager just followed the recommandations of the mothership company,
130 itself getting directions from the investor group who purchased the brand,
131 who themself are only trying to keep-up with the trends in that domain.
132 .
133 .PP
134 Why would I care?
135 I stopped to care about these silly questions since long.
136 I came back to the real world for the better.
137 I live my life ignoring what happens around me and it works plenty well.
138 .
139 .QP
140 So why is that, at deep down, in the middle of my gut, there is a voice whispering to me that something's wrong.
141 .FS
142 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QcSlAihVM0Q
143 .FE
144 .
145 .PP
146 The thing with living like an ant in the anthill is:
147 you do not get too many answers about how the whole anthill works.