Eye (The City is Watching You) on flickr
August 31st, 2007
Eye…
Recently I posted this photo on flickr. It gained quite a lot attention especially because of its socio-critical topic.
Some Comments
George Orwell was wrong it’s Big Sister who’s watching you.
1984? :))
Cool!
Excellent photo!!! Where finish the reality and begin the fantasy? I keep in my favs, ok? Bye.
As I toke this photograph, I didn’t think about surveillance state appendages or related things. I just saw this poster and was impressed the first time. Than I thought it must look good if there are some people walking across. In my imagine the people would be watched by this really big eye.
After I processed the file on my computer it was clear that the message of this image could be rather strong. I only give it the short byline “The City is Watching You” to let the interpretation open.
Here in Germany we have currently a big discussion about personal computer searching by the government. Our minister of the interior want to get informations from criminals by breaking into there personal computers. They work on a so called “Bundestrojaner” which is a Trojan horse. For me the imagination that our government could develop such viruses is unbelievable. Surely telephone communication is supervised and new communication techniques have to be covered. But infiltration in personal computers without notice is like breaking into a flat without notice and that is not allowed by our constitution.
So at the end, our politicians try to protect our society against an enemy which they did support herself in the past. The only solution will be a rethinking in all societies of our world.