Are we living in a modern panopticon?
I have the itchy feeling we live in a modern, highly sophisticated and refined panopticon. Science and technology support its construction, maintenance, and future furthering and developments.
Is my feeling justified?
Is my feeling justified?
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Is this why he made Eve bite the apple?
Sure there is. Challenge mode, extra hard level on a video game. Just look at ski slopes. Color coded for convenience even. Where would the fun be in knowing you were placed there by choice. That leaves an easy exit as a non-option.. which is part of the difficulty, and hence, the fun.
Prison, requested obstacle course, when ignorance allows either of the two to be equally viable.. what you choose says more about you than the environment and/or circumstances that placed you in it now doesn't it?
If the purpose was to give you fun, the world would contain more of it. It'd be nothing but fun. He's omnipotent. Look it up.
After she bit the apple, her innocence was gone. She knew!
Reasoned reflection reveals we are in a prison.
You said nobody is innocent.
You said that knowing makes guilty.
(And answer my question - why are you talking about the bible when I never mentioned it?)
Read it carefully. It's an argument.
1: If God exists, God would not allow innocent persons to live in ignorance in a dangerous world.
2: God exists
3. therefore God has not allowed innocent persons to live in a dangerous world.
4. We are living in ignorance in a dangerous world
5. Therefore we are not innocent
So therefore we are guilty. But of what? Of knowing?
Let's say you find yourself in a bed, all bandaged up and hooked up to various monitors. There are also others around you in a similar situation. Well, it is reasonable to infer that you are in hospital and that you suffered a major health incident. You don't have to know specifically what.
Likewise: we can reasonably infer that we are in a prison. One does not have to know for what.