{"id":3479,"date":"2011-09-08T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2011-09-08T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:20:26","slug":"trust-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/09\/08\/trust-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of changes since 9\/11 &#8211; but what&#8217;s surprising is that all of these changes were made by us, and not by terrorists. As a society, we&#8217;ve devolved to an absurdly unhealthy level of paranoia, where anyone and everyone is out to get us. Everyone is a suspect, a &#8220;potential terrorist,&#8221; and no one (well, very, very, very few people) are ever fully &#8220;proven&#8221; innocent and trusted completely.<\/p>\n<p>This video gives a good overview of what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28556335\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/28556335\">Suspect America<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/cir\">CIR<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me, grab a DSLR camera and go take some photos of trains (if you like trains), or maybe a big, beautiful bridge near you, or something else like that, and see how far you get.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad to think that we&#8217;ve done this entirely to ourselves &#8211; all because of our irrational fear.<\/p>\n<p>As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the events of 9\/11, I really do think it&#8217;s time to put the brakes on this sort of thing, to scale it way back, and remember that we don&#8217;t need to always be afraid, and that even if people <em>are<\/em> out to &#8220;get us,&#8221; they&#8217;re not the bogey men, and they aren&#8217;t going to pop out of our closets at night and blow up every bridge, airport, [insert movie-plot infrastructure target here] in the country all at once&#8230; and that it follows from this that we don&#8217;t need to have security guards checking the IDs of every hipster photographer or tourist who takes a picture from off the beaten path, or anyone who aims a camera lens at an airport, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>It takes willpower though to do all this &#8211; and I&#8217;m afraid all our national willpower has been sucked up by other things (wars, failing economies, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Many years from now, this time period may be looked back upon as the self-inflicted Great Failure of American society&#8230; but maybe, just maybe, we can change things.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post 9\/11 America, you are presumed guilty until&#8230; well, you&#8217;re pretty much always presumed guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[270,122,385,392,141],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-9-11","tag-police-state","tag-politics","tag-society","tag-terrorism","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-U7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4903,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2016\/11\/09\/on-endings-beginnings\/","url_meta":{"origin":3479,"position":0},"title":"On Endings &#038; Beginnings","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My God, what have we done?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":918,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/12\/never-fear\/","url_meta":{"origin":3479,"position":1},"title":"Never Fear","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1032,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/25\/our-paranoid-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":3479,"position":2},"title":"Our Paranoid Society","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is what happens when everyone is afraid of everyone else: His mission was to photograph each of the nation\u2019s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection. 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