Dear everything else in the world,
The
reason we haven’t reacted more angrily to the things Mr. Snowden has told us is
precisely the reason why the world he has so helpfully revealed emerged in the
first place.
We don’t care.
We have our lives and our admittedly small,
problems: we have stuff to do and stuff to get.
Granted,
we should pay more attention; maybe read more, who knows, even contribute more.
But we simply don’t want to, we never really have and by this late stage it is
very doubtful that we ever will.
We trust that governments and corporations
are benign not because we are fools, but simply because we can’t be arsed to
find out if they are not. We are idle, we are greedy, we are self obsessed, and
we can be bought off very cheaply. (And we mean, really, really cheaply, we’ll
even let you lend us the money to buy the shiny shit.)
In
return for allowing us to remain in this state of semi-comatose indifference we
ask only two things.
Firstly, you must allow us to endlessly call every last one of you a
good for nothing bastard, who is only out for themselves and their sinister
co-conspirators, regardless of how much of your lives you spend actually making
our lives better.
Secondly, what were we saying?
No…it’s gone.
Tea?
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