No Place To Hide

The ever growing surveillance state of today’s most powerful nations poses an even greater threat. The use of state media throughout history has already been discussed, and there are even some examples today. Countries such as North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan possess some of the most censored media. Glenn Greenwald is a journalist that works for a newspaper called The Guardian, and is renowned for his role in publishing the top secret government files given to him by Edward Snowden. In his book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, he goes into depth of what the United States has done to survey the world and who they have cooperated with. Examples such as the “Five Eyes”, FISA court’s, Keystone, …show more content…
A countermovement to modernism, postmodernism reacted against modernists’ efforts to have truth that applied to everyone and started thinking that truth was subjective and relative. Advancements in science such as quantum mechanics and the atom bomb spurred on the idea that the world was much more complicated and could not be understood sufficiently. Jean Francois Lyotard was a well known postmodern philosopher once stated “A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” He stated this to expand the concept of postmodernism in a manner of how it relates to modernism. Postmodernism helped mold today’s culture into what it is. Now society consists of television, social media, and pop culture which can all be utilized as a means to hold onto power. TV networks and radio stations consistently project icons and celebrities to give people something to strive for so businesses can meet their bottom line. These networks and governments of today pat each other on the back to perpetuate the cycle. Eisenhower warned of the United States’ military industrial complex and the war on terrorism is also an example of what today’s culture and governments do to make a profit. Author, David Foster …show more content…
However, these differences only show the surface of how these organizations operate. With all smoke and mirrors casted aside, there leaves a core of what every government attempts to achieve. This goal is to hold onto power for as long as one can and expand as far as one can. There are multiple ways of going through with this goal, but there are more specific ways that apply to this paper. All nations of the world desire to control more by the restricting of rights, the use of mass surveillance, and the cooperation of these governments to keep their status quo and stature. If anyone was given the chance to be in such of a position, everyone would probably do the same thing as the powerful