For every action we witness there are a myriad of motives that our meaning making mind likes to attribute.\u00a0 I seem to be in a sensitive place lately as I watch other people’s actions and realize perhaps for the first time the depth of darkness that is behind their decision making process.\u00a0 Of course I realize all of it is simply a story, theirs, mine and the non-local mind too that likes to spin this web we each find ourselves entangled within.<\/p>\n
Everyone has an agenda.\u00a0 Sometimes hidden\u00a0in the obscurity of their outward action or masked by the\u00a0fa\u00e7ade\u00a0 which covers their true face.\u00a0 Sometimes of course we are simply fishing, “do these pants make my butt look fat” which is harmless of course until the wrong response is returned.\u00a0 But at the macro level of ulterior motivational campaigns the shrewd tactics of corporate consciousness\u00a0 can be down right dangerous to even the illusion of trust that we may have had at one time in our pre-web youth.<\/p>\n
Of course I could pull an example from the political races and get on my soap box to talk about the bold face lies that pass for politics as usual but that get super-sized during any election year, or the collection agency that has my daughter confused with a dead beat dregs who she must somehow resemble in one of her data snapshots that would be just cause for Walmart to refuse her return of a night stand that she purchased for her new apartment.\u00a0 It really doesn’t matter what story or thread that I pull upon, because its all just data bits.\u00a0 Data bytes.\u00a0 Binary tidbits that define our reality and extent of our existential existence.<\/p>\n
However, my favorite bank that will as always remain nameless as a stray dog who likes to CHASE its tail, sent me a snail mail letter saying there was important information about my right to security and privacy.\u00a0 As we use to say in IT … security through obscurity would be more like it.<\/p>\n
I read the letter carefully, because I know in my tired and often pain-filled body I can miss the point as my eyes skim the words and translate back to my dyslexic brain.\u00a0 But what struck me was the small print that mentioned I should select NO if I wanted to keep my privacy intact.\u00a0 Select NO, if you agree.\u00a0 Hmmmm…. reminded me of the twisted words on the old Prop 8<\/a> initiative that had voters kerpuzzeled if yes meant no or no meant yes?<\/p>\n I went to the website listed by the bank where I could cast my vote for how I wanted my privacy information maintained.\u00a0 It was paper mail, so I had to TYPE in the VERY LONG URL by hand.\u00a0 That’s the first place you will loose people.\u00a0 If there is a chance for a typo you can be sure a phishing site has grabbed the domain and is ready to take your login credentials.<\/p>\n
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First we have THREE clearly marked options to select from at the top of the page.\u00a0 And it HELPS us by saying that we can select ANY or ALL of the three choices.\u00a0 Well isn’t that grand like an all-you-can-eat buffet for a Jenny Craig meeting .. the MISSING OPTION was of course NONE you can select NONE of the choices below.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/security3.gif\")
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