Reflections on a world with too much spying

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late. —Frank Herbert’s DUNE —OR— “If we all call the tune…” —Led Zeppelin ? — This question may be more relevant than most think and that sooner than perhaps I think and I’m posing it. Context has a lot to do with things including analysis. Of course full information also does and we, those without the resources of corporations and government agencies seldom if ever have that. Not really. We face challenges for which there are in many ways no helpful precedents. Cooperation is likely a requirement of survival, at least on the civilization scale. A country or continent or hemisphere that tears itself apart at the first sign of problems, of a call to sacrifice some comfort for the greater good