Huxley vs. GoC: Quick Off Topic - Bad New World

This shocks me. Since 9/11, our "harmonisation" and "information sharing" have quietly, through Orders in Council & regulations, mostly without legislation, Manley & Cons, sent us down a bad & stupid Big Brother path of quiescence: few complain, seemingly. Biometrics are bad news. Orwell & English were so proud of their liberalism. Now first they & USA, then always-desperate-to-imitate Aussies, and now us, going down a very dark path. Perhaps there's a generational & technological divide, between pre- & post-facebook generations, but to me, this is another segment of an already noxious, fast-growing wedge (gone past thin end). Generations of our peasant ancestors fought for our freedoms during the liberal revolutions of the post-Enlightenment, fought to maintain them against fascism and communism, and now, with a bored flip past back pages of papers, we're going to let soft totalitarianism do what hard authoritarianism & totalitarianism of absolutism, fascism & communism could not? No coincidence a remake of The Prisoner came out. Remember, standard should always be nothing, and justification for document measured against one'e one existence and right to exist. Echoing Eco, we do exist without our representations, I believe. Which Brit historian pointed out that before WWI, that is within memory, a Brit citizen would typically have no, that is no, zero, identity document? Always ask yourself, do we really need this, is this what is right in a liberal democratic society, or is temporary hysteria leading us down the path of implicitly and necessarily anti-democratic mechanisms, culture, and government of surveillance and control? Easy to create, hard from which to liberate. Beware.