The Soft Cage In A Digital Age- Who Watches The Watcher?
This is a topic that I have found interesting for many years and studied in various categories from racial profiling, criminal surveillance, to consumer marketing. The article “Who Watches the Watcher?” by Eric Stoddart takes a theological approach on the subject that I have never read before. I thought this was a excellent article since he wrote about the “suspicion and lack of trust” that humans have for each other that is normal when dealing with safety and preconditioned information about a culture or ethnic group. In the book The Soft Cage by Christian Parenti he explains how surveillance in America started from slavery to Chinese railroad workers to cowboys creating the first credit report system and now a major weapon in the war on terror. In Stoddart’s article he gives a few examples of how the Bible tells stories and fables to show the divine and higher power that God has over the world and people. Christians believe that any untruthful speech will be punished or judge by the Creator and not forgotten. Surveillance from a spiritual force is needed to become a believer in the Gospels of the Bible and fundamental beliefs in Christianity. Read the rest of this entry »
