Re: On a Modern Mental Illness (Prince Trippy)                08/09/23
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The  Prince[1] recently  wrote about  the "modern  mental illness"  of
being overly-concerned (neurotic) about online privacy. Maybe the same
extends to privacy  in general, I don't know... but  I think it mostly
exhibits in the digital world.

I enjoyed  the realization he came  to: that it is  "an endless game,"
full of players in  various strata, and that the pursuit  of a cure is
more-than-usually vanity.

Others, I've witnessed, have addressed the game not by ceasing to care
about privacy, but by abandoning  technology to one degree or another.
To this the  Prince holds up "the omnipresent  surveillance of society
nowadays," which is a surrender, but with truth in it.

Personally, I don't know what to  think. I'm holding out hope that the
sun will  send a  harsh lesson  of its  own, one  that will  solve the
problem for  me; but that is  laziness, and the odds  are more-or-less
astronomical. If I'm being honest, I have the mental illness described
in the link, and  am coping with it just as  horridly, or pretending I
don't have it at all.

I wonder if there are any  ancient mental illnesses that could be held
as parallel to this one?

[1] gopher://verisimilitudes.net:70/02023-08-05