People often read this as a deliberate conspiracy, but part of the tragedy of it is its nature as a product of unanticipated consequences and silent costs of the “do something!” mentality among essentially absent and ignorant decision makers/voters.
Important point in this book: if kids are subjected on the daily to heavy guard/police presence in schools, surveillance equipment, sniffer dogs & searches, they’re in some sense being actively groomed to accept as normal the conditions of a police statehttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1040314249250189312 …
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Something Must Be Done, and it needn’t necessarily be effective — we don’t always even know what efficacy would look like, exactly — but it MUST be *visible*
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This is a point I've been trying, and failing, to conceptualize since the Parkland shooting. Thanks for sharing it.
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It follows that kids in this type of school will become adults that want that police stathe for the reassuring sense of safety it provides—and they'll vote for it. A weird twist given the people who want *more* guns in schools.
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Or perhaps they’ll hate it and become the greatest critics of such policies.
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Love it or hate it, what’s normal isn’t jarring, and it doesn’t draw as much attention as the novel or unusual. We don’t get to consciously shape our own “normal,” and we have a limited ability to assess it from the inside
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Not sure. Ask russians or chineses if they think it is acceptable they seem even good at bypassing it a situation where we play pretend is + dangerous We pretend there is no surveillance state, we have free press etc. W/ censorship is official u r + likely to protect urself
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however, it does increase criminality like suggested in the book which make sense surveillance turn individual into potential suspects so when you are a suspect already the border is more easily blurred toward actions what would have been otherwise unacceptable
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Fun fact: When I taught--the only one who didn't have internet: Me. "Miss, you can use my hot spot." Every kid has a VPN. Kid's are smarter than adults. RE: Police: Every officer you hire is a teacher or coach you didn't. SROs come out of school budget.
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