Human Interactions

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, JEANNIE BERNIER wrote:

> 
> Call me a tool of the system (and I am, since I enable all those
> privacy-flouting creepy marketing programs as a chosen career) but
> corporations are just stupid, not evil.  I know I'm going to get flamed to
> H-E-double-toothpicks for this, but if companies really had access to half
> the crap about us that the media is telling us they do, I still wouldn't be
> scared, because god knows they wouldn't have the first clue how to really
> exploit it.

I fear that in spite of myself I'm in love with the whole commodification
thing. Find it enormously  exhilarating. So many beautiful and magically
endowed objects. I love the magic. Don't really care that it's generated
by corporate scheming and "privacy violation" rather than by someone else
and by some other means. It's a dirty job and I'm just glad I don't have
to do it--can go sailing instead. About the privacy thing. I'm not very
concerned  about this type of so-called privacy violation. The reason
I don't cooperate always with market surveys and such things is that they
are so time consuming and you feel so dumb answering the questions. I only
wish there was a way they could record my preferences by a direct wire
into my brain. Then I could gimmick the machinery up so my views counted
double or triple or a hundred times more than they rightfully
should. Even though this would mean my privacy was being violated one
hundred fold more maybe? 

I know I'm a louse but feel I should be honest with the p-list. If you're
not honest with the p-list who CAN you be honest with.

			P.