“When I speak to my children or an audience of young people, I try to alert them to the historically contingent nature of “the thing that has us” by calling attention to ordinary values and expectations before surveillance capitalism began its campaign of psychic numbing. It is not ok for every move, emotion, utterance, and desire to be catalogued. manipulated and then used to surreptitiously herd us through the future tense for the sake of someone else’s profit. These things are brand new, they are unprecedented. You should not take them for granted because they are not ok.”
