I try so hard not to get upset
Because I know all the trouble I'll get
--Til Tuesday
Jacob Hornberger observes that a primary objective of government surveillance is to keep people in line. The government collects information on people. If individuals rebel in some way, then government uses that information against them. For those who have not rebelled, the surveillance process serves as a signal to others about the benefits of compliance and the consequences of rebellion.
Surveillance is a process of institutional isomorphism. Its aim is compliance.
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To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
~Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, 1851
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