All citizens should live in glass houses.
So says Ibsen in Pillars of the Community. It is, he says, all about freedom and truth. Well he’s right, of course, that’s just it. Like it or not more and more of what we do and say is recorded. And we’re getting better at storing this data, organising it, making it available. Even where I am at any one time is ascertainable, GPS, mobile cells. Your ability to watch my every public move, at will, is not far away. It’s a good thing. It would militate against trivialism. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Of course, who’s going to watch me?
Were gonna get in smoke up
And were starting to unturn your label
And everybody who got a record deal
And everybody wants to be naked and famous
Everybodys got a record deal
And everybody wants to be naked and famous
“Tricky Kid” - Tricky
Verily, the happy-slapping youtube generation is in the ascendency.
