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Hattie's Hums's avatar

The generation gap is now a chasm, leading to a labyrinth winding its way down to hell. Ageing spelunkers can only look on in horror as their loved ones, flushed with the confidence of youth, descend, with only the torces on their mobile phones to light the way,

I actually think, under different circumstances, the "school bear" is a nice idea, but understand your concerns. Have you checked it for spycams - they're all the rage you know for catching lazy cleaners and horrible child-minders. Wouldn't want those cleaning our homes and minding our kids while we were at the endless office meetings, now, would we?

Peppy Scott's avatar

I agree that it's quite a nice idea if you pass the bear around and then write an imaginative story about what you got up to, say. It's the intrusion into home life that I object to. To me, it's overreach.

Red Pill Poet's avatar

“I am told that I over-react. But when they can’t see the creeping threat, who is to protect the children?”— Key point!

Of course, Gran is as dead right as the young think Gran is dead wrong. Fact is, to those with eyes and brains that work, it's every bit as creepy as it's been creeping. My latest updated poem is about brainwashing in general, but very much applies to the digital-panopticon drift that has convinced the new generations that privacy is not only NOT an essential human right, but that it's something only kooks and criminals value. After all, “what do you have to hide?” … https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/the-fruit-of-the-tree

And ya, data mining...

Peppy Scott's avatar

Privacy is "Far Right" of course!

Red Pill Poet's avatar

Of course! Perhaps even EXTREME far right! BTW, Sandi Adams has been doing God's work for a good while now. Good convo.