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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

John Twelve Hawks
These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer's life undermines the power of that writer's ideas.

John Twelve Hawks
In Orwell's 1984, all Party members must assemble for a Two Minutes Hate session where they watch a propaganda film showing the Party's enemies. The establishment of the Virtual Panopticon insures that these group meetings aren't necessary. Those in power now have the resources to deliver a political message tailored to the specific fears of the individual citizen. Yes, we'll still have political rallies and conventions, but these will be empty gestures retained from the past.

John Twelve Hawks
Any monitoring system that is invisible, pervasive, automatic, and permanent gives those in power the means to create a modern surveillance state. And these new states will have an authority that has detached itself from ethics and ideology. Politicians and dictators will continue to make speeches, but their words will become meaningless. This new system will see and know us. It will even predict our future behavior.

John Twelve Hawks
The warrior uses the power of the brain to be deliberate and the power of the heart to be instinctive.

John Twelve Hawks