A Minor Inconvenience: The Bright Side of Living in a Surveillance State

Considering pretty much everything the NSA has told us so far has proved to be, if not flat out lies, then at least new and unusual applications of the truth, only an idiot would believe there isn’t more they’re hiding. And let's be honest, it's probably worse than what we've heard so far.

We can rebel against it if we like, but where to even begin? Start sending dickpics with terroristic captions? Battle their invasion of our privacy with an invasion of their eyeballs? They might enjoy that. Overload their systems?

(His penis: a trailblazer for change)

Enough bloggers have knotted their panties over this that I doubt anyone needs to hear more of that. Instead, let me suggest that we're looking at this from the wrong direction. Everything has a bright side and in the same light, living in a surveillance state can't be all bad. It just takes a little bit of introspection and rationalization to find that silver lining.

At the rate the NSA’s data is disseminating it’ll be only a matter of months, if not weeks, before even you’re technologically illiterate grandmother has access to it. And while I don’t necessarily want her knowing what kind of porn I’ve been watching, I can take some solace digging into everyone else’s private lives.

(Somehow I didn't have the foresight to realize googling

"grandma looking at porn" would return troubling results)

Let's be honest though -- I'm too self involved to really care what most of my friends are doing with their freetime. Frankly, I know them well enough to know it's not that interesting. And I'm sure most everyone will agre with me. That said, there’s no telling how much else the NSA knows about. I think the only logical conclusion is everything. So here’s a few things I think everyone can look forward to learning from them.