It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras - Benn Jordan

I mean we’re mostly in agreement here about the root causes, but let’s be honest ring cameras and social media have gone hand in hand with just pushing the collective insanity for suburbanites. I don’t think these Ring Cameras caused this, but suburbia is already an alienating way to live and I genuinely this technology is just feeding into that mentality that your home is under siege from outsiders and must be protected at all times. I think it’s possible to acknowledge that technology can have the liberating benefits of everything from exposing reactionary violence from the state while also furthering the neuroses that we get from living in a hyper atomised society. All of this technology has so much potential for good, but the incentives are in place to utilise all this technology in a way that makes everyone miserable. As for your last part I’d have to strongly disagree, people are perfectly capable of showing empathy to a mass of people who are outside of their own lives. We’ve seen it through the 20th century in the form of international class based solidarity movements and it’s starting to reemerge today as even Westerners become more conscious of imperialism.