dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
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“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel.” George Orwell ‘1984’
Unnoticed
Naturally
the watchers watch,
even of themselves they dutifully report,
but no one watches the watchers
while they are watching you
not watching,
benignly trusting
so unaware of the surrender
made without flag or treaty
folding so easily it went unnoticed,
and nothing seems different at all,
unless, of course,
you dare to have an opinion.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Well, I was raised to understand that I did NOT have an opinion (or that it was of no interest to the powers which existed, thus would not be heard)…which makes it hard to grow a backbone and speak up, once grown to adulthood. Excellent post, as always.
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More than one way to make a point though, some of it silent 🙂
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Yes.
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Very pertinent given the fact that the Metropolitan Police has admitted using face recognition technology.
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Sneaky, we get no say, but they’d probably just go ahead and do it anyway. I sometime think that “law enforcement” is paranoid.
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With phone cameras everywhere, seems you are “on” 24 hours a day anywhere. I even have my iPad camera blocked off.
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Optic fibre cable can actually hear and record on its own!!
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When I had a home and pet care business, I used to assume there were cameras recording my actions. Maybe I was paranoid!🤪
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I would assume that too.
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Ah! Then it is a totally different scenario, isn’t it? So timely, Paul.
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Sadly so Punam, and thank you for responding.
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I look forward to your posts, Paul. 🙂
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That is very encouraging 🙂
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🙂
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All a bit frightening really.
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Yes, all in the wrong hands.
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Nice write Paul, this sting is in the tail of your piece… Bravo – enjoyed the read – thank you…
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Yes, no time for being an ostrich right now, thank you very much Scott.
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Oh Paul, this packs a powerful punch, and resonates with sad truth.
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Thanks very much Rob, yes, represents my underlying anxiety about govt being captive to its own shadow.
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This is disconcerting. Well done!
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Yes, I can honestly say I’m disconcerted, no time to hide. Thank you so much.
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Freedom
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Now 🙂
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Yes.
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good for you Paul, you are really slamming the
constant spying and hypocrisy
of our so called democracy!
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Lol, democracy, what a crock.
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a myth that faded ages ago …
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Yes, like the notion of justice and truth.
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yes they use these words prolifically but have no concept of their real meaning … maybe they should read a dictionary!
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They’re not that bright 🙂
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or they take us to be stupid …
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Oh they do that too 🙂
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Paul, you probably won’t believe this, but today a hummingbird came to one of my windows and hovered there for a good 5 seconds, and my first thought was that the watchers had designed a surveillance drone that looks like a hummingbird. This “watched world” is enough to make one suspicious of everything 😦
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Wow, a beautiful bird, lovely. But yes the way we think now has been changed so much, and more anxiously so.
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What an incredibly sad commentary on the world we live in!
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I know 😦
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This has really got me riled, and the govt remain unmoved, despite the fact that the ATO are in breach.
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Indeed, it marks the pressure we’re under.
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I like the challenge that an opinion can make.
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Ah, yes indeed Frank, we underestimate ourselves really. Thank you.
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Watchers is as old as time.
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Chilling poem. It’s the unnoticing that is so insidious.
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Yes, that’s it really, we are guilty of our own demise. We have trusted too much.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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🙏
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I believe you, the watchers are everyone. We even invite them (unwittingly) to our home.
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Yes absolutely, we do. Sad world.
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Oh this has an eerie feeling… I can imagine how that trust will erode, when we realize who they are the watchers.
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Yes, when we awaken we will feel betrayed. Many thanks Bjorn.
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So well written – but absolutely true
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Sadly so, thank you Lyn.
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