![]() The idea that US intelligence agencies would wiretap their entire population, not to mention the rest of the world’s populations, was a totalitarian horror that made both Orwell and the mid-20th century dictators he was writing about seem like amateurs. Of course, centrist Democrats and the mass media closed wagons around Obama and came up with 1,001 ways to excuse him however, for the majority of the world, the spell was broken. Moreover, Snowden’s revelations broke the illusions of the Obama era and the narrative that our new Nobel Peace Prize-winning president had America’s best interests in mind. Suddenly, the most paranoid rantings of hippies and conspiracy theorists, going back to the 1960s, seemed positively understated compared to reality. ![]() ![]() It’s hard to overstate how epochal of an event this was, particularly for Millennials, and particularly for Internet-focused people. When Edward Snowden pulled back the curtain on the world we thought we knew, and revealed the jaw-dropping extent of NSA surveillance on American citizens and people around the globeīetween 20, Ultraculture closely followed Edward Snowden’s revelations of the massive NSA surveillance programs of American citizens.
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