A Question with no Answer:

  As outrage over NSA spying continues, another outrage has re-surfaced.  How dare the government keep these types of activities secret from its citizens.  It's an interesting position, should the government be allowed to conceal information from its citizens?  On one hand, the government needs to declassify information from the public to uphold national security and avoid interference with our offensive tactics.  On the other hand, if the government is allowed to keep confidential information, than there is next to nothing stopping it from undermining the rights of its citizens.  There is no middle ground with this issue because there is no way of supervising which secrets the government keeps and which they make public.  At least, not without undermining the entire system as a whole.  Do we give up national security or personal security; it is a question with no answer.

Why are we surprised? Questioning the Outrage over Internet Privacy

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/01/obamas-nsa-strategy-over-to-you-congress.html

  Is it possible to have a private life?  Many people today claim that privacy is a innate right that should be protected by the federal government.  Has the government ever truly protected human rights?  We sometimes forget that to create a society that functions, there must be limits and punishments enacted that stomp on personal freedom.  Due to this, fear that the federal government would spy on its citizens has been around since the mid 1900's.  So why did we think that the creation of the internet would change that?  Is it logical for us to expect the government to relinquish power when it has never done so in the past?

The Internet: A 21st Century Religion

   It should be safe to say that religion has become a main target of mockery in our modern age.  Following the teachings of something that cannot be seen or heard is ludicrous in a time where everything must be scientifically proven to hold weight.  Instead of going to church for answers to modern day policies and solutions we have found a new avenue of revelations, the Internet.  Most believe the internet to be a reliable place to find answers, but is it really?  We know next to nothing about the people that regularly post on websites.  There is very little regulation on what type of information can be posted.  Most know this, yet rarely question what they find on the internet.  How often do people read an article/story on a new discovery and actually take the time to read the study to confirm that it is genuine.  Not very often, yet they feel no shame in sharing said article as if it were fact.  These people blindly believe the teachings of someone they never met, on a subject they know nothing about.  It begs the question, our we truly more enlightened today, or blinded by a new form of faith