Indeed such are the "benefits" of globalisation where we are no longer people but dehumanised consumers, who would put any trust in a "mere" statistic? The individual no longer recognised or exists in this global hegemony.Sim G wrote: It's not about guns, it's not bully-boy tactics, it's just that no one effing well trusts anyone anymore! That is what we should lament....
We willingly give up our human traits for inhuman digital ones for 24 hour internet, shopping, banking, entertainment etc. etc. to make our selves subject to the tyranny of passwords and moneyless transactions.
Even prescient people like George Orwell never dreamed that we would do all this willingly whilst gleefully paying for it at the same time.