Eye in the Sky

[tongodeon]

The western monotheistic view of religious morality is "God is everywhere and knows what you're doing, so be good or he'll see you". This always struck me as a justification for the golden rule; why you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You might think you've gotten away with it, except there's always a guy up there who sees

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[angel_boi]

your 2nd par seems to be truncated... last sentence is incomplete

[tongodeon]

Whoops. Fix'd.

[peglegpete]

No results found for "secret jesuit vigilantes".

This displeases me.

[annamaryse]

Yes.

remember the movie Congo

[drieuxster]

In it there is this gestalt moment about how the 'eye of ra' symbol was used in King Solomon's Mind to control the Killer Ape Miners...

That offers the 'be seeing you' moment that you are encountering, here in the village, where you should be taking that as a security reassurance that you will never be alone.

So why not embrace the happiness?

[mountmccabe]

I keep trying to turn this into cause and effect but I can't make it fit either way. [I don't think I am really reading any strong suggestion of such in the post, jftr.]

I don't buy that the loss of public privacy is due to non-religious folks being newly paranoid and thus developing/implementing/calling for/accepting new technologies anymore than I buy that, say, folks that only believe to have answers for their kids are no longer caring what their kids believe as long as they believe that some sort of Earthly justice will catch up with them if they screw up too much/too visibly.

[tongodeon]

In an earlier draft I included the explicit disclaimer that correlation is not causation, but I couldn't figure out how to shoehorn it in here.

Not that I'd be against suggesting such causation. For example I think that the expanding frontier of scientific knowledge has reduced the need for a God of the gaps. By the same token you might not need to soothe your indignation with "at least they'll go to hell for this" if you thing your wrongdoers stand a good chance of going to jail for it. (I do not have evidence to support this claim.)