How free are we living in such a society? While we are giving the illusion of freedom, there seems to be an invisible structure around us, locking us and limiting us in somehow. We all believe that we are given free will, the ability to choose and think for ourselves, but then we become consumers and then we become puppets for the corporations. Corporations become invisible handlers of us, considering that we become so dependent on such corporations such as Google, Yahoo, AOL and many others. I’m sure the internet appears to be a great tool, yes it indeed proves useful; information at your fingertips. The internet is also a great tool for the corporation to have control over the information we think we have free access to. It’s slightly startling to know that corporations such as Google have access to our information. While we have access to free information through the internet, they use the same tool to learn private information about us. They’ve flipped the switch on us, and now, instead of us using technology, the corporations are using technology to use us. Not only to their free access to our information, but also through our dependency on the machine. The corporations have become transparent in their control. At least the actions of the educational system and the armed services are visible to us, while we remain ignorant and unaware of the actions taken by the other corporations. As Nick Castillo mentioned the matrix, I’d have to agree with the relation of the corporations to the matrix. When the control is invisible and when we’re ignorant it’s much more difficult to escape such a grasp.
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