There's a famous saying about Mussolini making the trains run on time. The joke was that anyone who complained about the trains running late, which was an endemic issue emblematic of the financial failures of fascism (his government system), was killed.

But if you didn't complain about the trains, maybe because you didn't take them, you didn't get killed. It was fine.

Maybe things are actually kinda bad, but you're just not willing to admit it to yourself because you aren't complaining about the trains.

In the US, we complain about the trains. And if the gov't is spying on us with facial recognition, we're going to stop them.

> And if the gov't is spying on us with facial recognition, we're going to stop them.

I wish I still had this childish optimism.

No, in the US we just stick fingers in our ears while we let the private sector do it while screaming “la-la-la” and closing our eyes.