icepick wrote:
And even that piece delves too far into self agenda, thereby failing to address the quandary our modern world is in, and needs desperately to address. Our problem is that we want it both ways ............... the protection and the privacy.

Whether there is a personal agenda or not, one thing they are completely right about, and its not just the movies in the write up, its a whole host of shows, from NCIS and many other police type shows..... and movies.   I have been saying this for ages..... and now its too late people just accept it.... they have been thoroughly brainwashed by these movies and TV series.   I read an article many years ago about the CIA's interest in movie making.... and its easy to see why now.  I can remember reading an article almost ridiculing people because they believed that what they see in the movies and TV shows done is impossible and they do not do it.... only to discover after Snowden let it out of the bag, that they have been doing these things for a very long time!!!  smiley: eyes 

What strikes me on a larger scale is the way that the “Mission: Impossible” franchise and many other fictional properties have served as gradual ideological conditioning, acclimating us to the rise of the national or global security apparatus. I don’t exactly mean that the whole universe of espionage fiction is a sinister concoction designed to brainwash the public – although, in the case of the fictional Agent 007 and his semi-fictional creator, former British intelligence agent Ian Fleming, that unquestionably played a role.


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~