Surveillance state, digital restrictions management, treacherous computing appliances, "two factor authentication", airport searches, totalitarian schools, prohibitions on mobile phones or pocket knives, no outside food or drink, etc. These are all instances of making some central entity's position more secure, while running roughshod over the ability for individuals to make ourselves secure.
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
— https://flyingpurplepizzaeater.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/...