leviathan

no doubt about it
they were ambushed on the data trail
en route to another domain

they should have moved around more
they knew they were probably being followed
but not expertly targeted and tracked

they had no idea - why would they?

that they were being secretly watched, read,  filmed,

GPS'd from their handheld devices

RFID'd through their purchases and credit card data

and voice recognitioned  by cell phone
the Coverment, that invariably bad mix of corporate and state
followed every withdrawal
of these digital junkies
with face recognition enabled street cameras

unblinking eyes

infrared at night

and slowly without anyone much noticing

the gleaners captured their souls

and  breathed life into their digital golems
which sleepwalked off out into the world as them 

to make dumb transactions 

and do the bidding of Coverment and mammon

they were suckered

they didnt realise that thay were being cloned

if only they'd kept moving 

Comments

Vinny   |2008-04-19 05:08:22 you have captured what's really happening, seems a lot of people are immune to it cause they want their 15 minutes of myspace fame, but I think it's much better to not exist.

Vinny  - PS   |2008-04-19 05:09:42 excellent graphic depiction of the awful truth

Rob B   |2008-04-19 09:05:00 There's a lot of talk by Coverment about gathering more and more data for predictive purposes, to better refine and target social policy and business services but essentially the population is being modelled and top downly shaped online and off, and although I'd hang back from saying we're going to see social network pages transformed into death lists there is going to be a heavy price to pay for betraying our own confidentiality , privacy and rights one day because our Governments have become less not more open and accountable about what they are doing while increasingly using new tech and info we've volunteered or they've wrought from us to aquire more and more power and social control.

Mr Hobbes   |2008-04-19 16:26:50 The human condition is somewhat over romanticised , the natural state of man is one of fearfulness and paranoia, of people fearing every one else and the demons that lurk in the shadows of our minds and prey upon us in the dark of night. We seem to have been hard wired to be fearful .

rene   |2008-04-20 12:44:14 yep, its pretty scary out there, the internal stuff just makes it worse

raphael   |2008-04-21 01:32:28 This subject pains me as the gleaning is becoming more and more fucking invasive . The more joined up the world becomes , the more those who dont quite fit in will find themselves marginalised .Its like tagging feral animals, its just making life even more unpleasant. It feels like the counting before the cull.

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