makes me laugh how during the eighties and the cold war era they would criticize the stazi using the fact that they were ruthless in using spying techniques on their own people and would hoard information on every aspect of their citizens lives. our government would tell us this like it was supposed to be a really bad thing for a government to do. i'd love to know at what point did it change from being a really bad thing for a government to do, to being apparently a good thing and supposedly being in the best interests of its citizens. or is it that its ok when a western government does it, but not for an eastern communist government.
because the way i see it, you just cannot have it both ways.
Governments have become little more that administrators for big business and they do not serve the interests of the vast majority of people they are there to supposedly serve. All the time the general populace are in a media-induced comatose anesthetic state they are docile and compliant. Most people do not want to know the reality of what is going on for fear of shaking their fragile little paradigm of an illusion of freedom to much, you can see their eyes start to glaze over when you tell inform them how it really is, you can hear their internal monologue where they are saying to themselves "this guy is some conspiracy theory nut, wish he would go away so I can go back to watching TV and not thinking about all this hard stuff".
The reality is too scary for most people which once again brings me to the point of how important this place is, we are free here to speak without fear of censorship, coercion, control, punishment.
Silk Road offers a genuine alternative to the corrupt systems imposed upon us that keep us enslaved and dependent upon those who are really running the show and making all the money. We have freedom of currency and the fact that they cannot control it (yet) must be scaring the crap out of them. So they will obviously try to demonize it to try to legitimize their actions against it, nothing scares a government more than the thought of not being in control.