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reason-I Went to Work for the Government and I Found a Failing System

reason-I Went to Work for the Government and I Found a Failing System

Date: 11/05/2019Author: The Confirmation Files

Freedom could never be imposed at the point of a gun, but perhaps it could be sown by the spread of silicon and fiber. Or so I thought.

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(J�rg Carstensen/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom

At the age of 22, when I entered the American intelligence community, I didn’t have any politics. Like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren’t truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mashup of the values I was raised with and the ideals I encountered online. It took me until my late twenties to finally understand that so much of what I believed—or what I thought I believed—was just youthful imprinting. We learn to speak by imitating the speech of the adults around us, and in the process of that learning we wind up also imitating their opinions until we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking that the words we’re using are our own.(EdwardSnowden)

Posted by The non-Conformist

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