Wonder what the 10% or so of fake conservatives see as justification for a dildo with a camera up their ass.
Either way, nearly a third of Generation Z loves Big Brother.
A Cato Institute survey finds 29% of Americans aged 18 to 29 respond affirmatively when asked, “Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?”
In 1791, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed building a “panopticon” in which people’s behavior could be monitored at all times.
But Bentham’s panopticon was meant to be a prison. A sizable segment of Generation Z would like to call it home.
Millennials are almost as submissive: 20% of the cohort between the ages of 30 and 44 also wants everyone watched.
Among Americans 45 and older, support for such totalitarian surveillance rises no higher than 6%.
Yet the youngest adults are not the only ones with a disproportionate desire to live under the state’s all-seeing eye.
There are political disparities, too, with 19% of liberals and 18% of centrists agreeing that our daily lives ought to be captured on camera for our own safety.
The poll found that 19% of liberals and 18% of centrists approve of the suggested surveillance.Robert Miller
Only about half as many respondents (9% to 11%) who identify as conservative, very conservative or very liberal say the same thing.
Privacy and civil liberties seem like a “horseshoe” issue that unites the ends of the political spectrum.
It’s the middle that has the ethic of old East German secret police — or the KGB.
