Privacy is now the fixation of modern society.
Why? It’s threatened.
I own the issue, we all should. My bank account was once hacked, my Apple ID has been hacked, and yet I still retain many of the intimate privacies of my own society.
What to do? It’s a balancing act. We want to be known: we don’t. So we allow information about ourselves to get out. I do: I pay for items at the store with my cards and my phone and so I trade a bit of my privacy for convenience.
I keep my personal feelings hidden at times, and so I trade being known for the privilege of personal privacy.
How do we best manage such a game? Carefully.
Here are some of my recent thoughts on this in axiomatic, proverbial and aphoristic form.
These mini-wisdoms balance the extremes, as we should. We all need society; we all need to be alone. Try these on for size.
Hone the edge of your alone; zone your own precious unknown.
Our passwords are fig leaves; they cover our modern modesties.
We fake our smiles and our profiles.
To be let alone takes the power of a throne.
The privilege of privacy savors its society.
Everyone is a privacy we judge by what we do not know.
Protect your soul; hack your mind.
A date is a hack; a marriage is an identity theft.
Convenience does business using the currency of privacy.
The difference between privacy and duplicity is intention.
What does society gain if it privatizes the whole world and loses its collective soul?
Notoriety sells its privacy to buy its own celebrity.
Our deepest privacies are filed under our deepest dishonesties.
Lately, I find myself particularly attracted to proverbial truth. Axioms, epigrams and proverbs get at things — profoundly yet simply. By such short wisdoms we can nicely juxtapose extremes. To find more of my proverbs on various topics you can visit http://www.modernproverbs.net
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