Total Information Awareness…And the Illuminatus?
I’ve been struggling to find something new and interesting to say about something that’s rapidly becoming old news – the Information Awareness Office and its project to construct a massive database containing tremendous amounts of personal detail on the lives of everyday Americans. Unfortunately, I can’t really add anything to the great analysis and resistance efforts of George Paine at Warblogging.com …except perhaps to launch the Needlenose Database of People Behaving Badly and to note the amazing similarity between the IAO logo and the cover art of Robert Anton Wilson’s ultimate pulp conspiracy novel “The Illuminatus! Trilogy Part 1: The Eye of the Pyramid.
Tags: Civil Liberties, Illuminatus, Information Awareness Office, spying
