Message for the NSA and other surveillance organisations

There is a class of people who assume for themselves extraordinary power over other people. Much like Capitalists this power is created by technology. In the case of Capitalists it was initially the water or wind powered mill and then steam powered. In the case of the NSA and surveillance organisations it is the telecommunications and data revolutions. When such power is created it is only a matter of time before people appoint themselves in charge of it.

Typically these people form into 2 groups. There are the people who think of themselves as "official" and competing groups that the "official" class as criminal. But it is important to note that they are indistinguishable, both having assumed power for themselves. That would be a sociological view of crime in general.

But hold on: the NSA etc will say, we represent the State and we are democratically elected... oh yes they realise no we aren't. The only thing democratic about us is that we pay ourselves from money extracted from tax revenues paid by a voting public. In other words there is no difference between the NSA--and the people working for them--and say the Stasi or Nazi SS. While people in the Stasi had the motto 'shield and sword of the party' people in the NSA may as well have a motto 'Shield and Sword of State' or 'Shield and Sword of the Free World'. But it is all just words (or s-words), and there is no difference.

So we are in the situation where there is a class of people in any system who think that that system needs them to assume extraordinary power enabled by technology. This is not a judgement, it is just a fact. But they should realise that they have assumed this role, it is neither necessary nor required.

And now I can enter my favourite discussion of Dualism versus Dialectic and the Jews. There is a peculiar flavour of the old testament that With-God-On-Your-Side you are invincible. This is actually a sentiment of much of the ancient world not just Judaism. When God favour you then you will be victorious. So people do lots of offerings and sacrifices to keep God on their side. But the Jews made a deal with God which cemented this relationship so that even if they no longer made sacrifices or did any offerings to God, He would remain on their side. They became the "chosen people".

The relevance of this is that members of organisation like the NSA and Stasi or Nazi SS all have something in common: they believe they are the chosen people also. They don't need to be good, or democratic or have any evidence in fact that they are special and worthy of this power. They de facto have the "divine right" to act as they want without judgement. This is how the US can drop atomic weapons and still walk away thinking they are the Good Guys. And yet obviously it is pure evil and psychopathy in fact. In a movie the person who turns his back on a massacre with a smile on his face is either a cartoon bad guy like in Tarantino films or they are the psychopath with pure unfaltering self-belief and narcissism and no compassion for others.

So the secret undemocratic power exercised by the NSA and other surveillance organisations around the world are performed by people who very much fit the psychological type identify in ancient Jewish thinking. They believe they have a special unbreakable covenant with God that makes them special and justified in what they do regardless what it is they actually do.

Of course the Democratic West has long criticised this kind of behaviour in the East. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely as the First Baron Acton once said. So all Statist systems are doomed to failure as the huge power wielded by the State becomes a corrupting influence of those who wield it. But of course with the Narcissistic mentality of the NSA they can wield such huge power without it corrupting because they have God on their side and they are in their DNA the Good Guys. Sadly this is a myth that they can cry themselves to sleep with just as many a Stasi and Nazi SS officer must have: it is sadly not true.

No one is made a Good Guy it is something that everyone works on. The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that the saint never gives up trying. It doesn't matter whether you are born American or Jewish you are just as corruptible as anyone else. It doesn't matter whether you work for the NSA, Mossad or the Stasi you are capable of exactly the same evils.

So my message to people working in the NSA and the other surveillance organisations is to follow the advice once given to Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran: Stay Good. We have seen Google fail its motto of "Don't be Evil." They were doomed anyway with a motto like that: imagine someone with a motto like "Don't Smoke" it already tells us they have a weakness for Smoking. We should remember that temptation and corruption is around the corner for all of us and working for the NSA or being Jewish doesn't make us any more special than anyone else. If we find any Good within us keep it there, nurture it and try and make it grow. That is the best we can hope to do and it doesn't matter whether God is on our side or not.

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