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In recent years, the hoarders - people who collect piles of objects up to being overwhelmed - have become the subject of strong news and "reality television". According to an opinion shared by many hoarders are mentally ill people, people nonetheless socially deviant and in need of "help", or people who must be stopped folsom library in their craze to amass huge amounts of things. I personally do not agree with the idea of using force to fight "hoarding", folsom library but I think the phenomenon contains a useful allegory.
Some time ago I knew a person who responded to the generic description of "hoarder". He collected ... well, everything. When I knew I had a house full of "antiquity" (read: any furniture folsom library that had more than a couple of years), "classical computers" (obsolete electronics) and stacks and stacks of old newspapers and magazines.
This friend of mine did not suffer from a lack of willingness to organize their lives. Also collected objects folsom library that were used to organize something: raccoglitutto boxes, file cabinets, books on how to "keep order" a messy house. Unfortunately, everything I drew was ... well, just accumulated. Added on top of old newspapers, which were on top of obsolete electronics, which was on top of the old furniture. Oh, and he also collected cats. Many, many cats. This meant that all those piles of stuff were covered in cat hair, clumps of cat hair, and other stuff left by the cats. He had a lot of stuff. Most probably it was useless, ruined by his mania for collecting if anything was worth something.
Never bothered to sort out, and when he died I am sure that his adult children (crescendo had moved elsewhere before he develop this disease, if it was a disease) have made a trek to rid the house and get something of value.
I was reminded of my old friend when I read a news story saying that the NSA does not know how to get something useful from all the information that it collects through its operations unconstitutional surveillance ("NSA Can not Make Sense of Masses of culled Data, "Antiwar.com, December folsom library 26, 2013).
I think many of us (yes, myself included) have observed this stuff espionage revealed in recent folsom library months by the informant Edward Snowden, from the wrong point of view. We saw it in Orwellian terms: folsom library A state-knowing that tightens its grip around the population recording everything he does, every purchase, every sentence entrusted to electronics.
If we push the hoarding to consider it a symptom of mental problems, my suspicion is that its origins are in the perception of loss of control of themselves. The acquisition of all that stuff is an attempt to restore that control: to act, to take the lead.
In my opinion, hoarding NSA reveals folsom library the same fears. It is not an omnipotent state that defends its power and its control. It is rather a state of bankruptcy, trembling and frightened desperately trying to recover the lost power.
As well as the hoarder does not understand that his collection is controlling him and not the other, the NSA can not comprehend the fact that the order be anarchic emerging world - a voluntary and decentralized network of equals all with the same power - to determine the future of the states centralized and hierarchical, and not the opposite.
This does not mean that the states with their spies are no longer dangerous. But they are becoming more and more dangerous for themselves and less for us. Their stacks of newspapers shed dust and cat urine on their electronic devices obsolete, folsom library rotting substructure formed by the furniture below. In the end everything will fall on their heads.
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