Prometheus Among the Cannibals: A Letter to Edward Snowden
Pity the country that requires a hero, Bertolt Brecht once remarked, but pity the heroes too.
Pity the country that requires a hero, Bertolt Brecht once remarked, but pity the heroes too.
The big brouhaha over former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing revelation that his bosses are tuning in to every last thing We The People are doing has resulted in exactly the effect that an authoritarian government would most want to achieve: leaving us all quaking in fear and paranoia.