Comment by losteric

It’s interesting that American neoliberalism perpetuates this thinking of staunch independence, an unrealistic notion that every man fully defends and stands for their own interests. It seems to espouse creating the terrifying Hobbesian “”natural state””… any notion of collective defense by default, as outlined here, is rejected as “idealistic socialism/paternal states”… even that phrase, “paternal”, being used as a pejorative says so much about the American psyche (I still blame Cold War-era anti-communist propaganda for lobotomizing America’s society thinking capabilities).

That’s really the key difference between US and European thinking on privacy. Europe was slow but always thought it was fucked up. Americans don’t seem to grasp why they should care or understand how perverse their blindsight is.