Are Human Beings Curiosities?

Here's an article from The Washington Post, that when you take with the Facebook Experiment revealed recently, is a bit troubling. I suspected voyeurism was a large part of Internet snooping and 'intercepted data" (a euphemism for juicy tidbits?), simply because of the human weakness for it. But to see it in print...I didn't think I would see that. It makes me wonder, as robots become a reality, is it just coincidental that human beings are becoming zombies? And for those teetering on the edge, or who have little memory of what it was like to be human, are these strange characters in the world who are still human the real spectacle? The real target of all this snooping? Is it a sad reaching of the fallen for a memory of what used to be in themselves? A strange curiosity? Are we now, if we are still human, still thinking, still feeling, still reaching up for God, the "other"?


In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are


"Many other files, described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained, have a startlingly intimate, even voyeuristic quality. They tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless." Read more...

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