BIG Picture: Cameras Are the Beginning of Tyranny

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During the last one-hundred years humanity has made some of the largest technological advancements in human history with the creation of things such as the automobile, phones, the internet, and video surveillance cameras. While we believe these advancements are bringing a change in human behavior and nature in truth we have only simply made things faster for example before cars we had chariots, before the phone messengers, before the internet libraries, and before video surveillance cameras troops and spies who took time to report what they saw instead of instantly reporting to a data base. In other words behind every camera there is a living breathing human and like all humans there are traits that exist such as greed, fear, and lust for power. What we as a society must consider is that we are still governed by fellow humans and they too share our imperfections and lust for power. In all honesty cameras are the beginning for tyranny
While many could point out that cameras are needed to keep order and peace in the streets, and could be used to do the community some good even in small ways such as controlling traffic, but it seems that this is a fallacy, take for example a study that found Red light cameras caused more accidents “Barbara Langland-Orban, PhD, John T. Large, PhD, Etienne E. Pracht, PhD from the University of South Florida (USF) conducted a study on red light cameras in2008. They updated their study in2011.Langland-Orban, et. al. found that red light cameras (RLC) increase the number of accidents at intersections by 28%” (Mike Franssinelli). What first started as an attempt to keep the roads safer ended up backfiring all because of the cameras, now if this is true then why would a city keep cameras monetering int...

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...able to walk the streets and to be able to trust their police. What seems to be the problem of England is it is engulfed in its own Gordian Knot were they keep trying to solve a complicated problem with a complecated solution, but all they really need is a simple solution mabey put more into policing and less into cameras. If people simply stand there and as a society do nothing things can only get worse for the future and could very well result in no effect to crime but, could create a society where people start to live in constat fear of their government were they are constantly spied on, where the government is no longer a protecter, but asserts its self a god just as many countries such as China, Russia, and Germany had once done. There is a famous quote by George Orwell when asked what the morale of 1984 was he resonded “Don't let it happen it depends on you.”

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