Tweet from Bo Winegard:
This public/private divide in honest communications is ubiquitous in the outside world too. If only we could force everyone to install devices on their heads that would, at random times throughout the day, broadcast their actual thoughts. We would take extra pains to make all people wear these devices in churches, political gatherings and wherever people feel pressure to please their in-groups. Doing this would be revolutionary in our hypocrisy-permeated world. Mind-blowingly revolutionary. If we made people wear these devices for even a month this would train us to say what we are actually thinking and to clearly admit when we don’t actually know things.
OK, yes. It this would also cause serious chaos as our hidden romantic/sexual secrets are made public at inopportune random times. This thought experiment is a work in progress . . .
This could be fun. Require every member of Congress to install the devices. Just think what the ratings would be for political party conventions. “I am ashamed to have to second the nomination of this completely unqualified ragweed pretending to be a human, for a position he not only fails to understand but is utterly incapable of holding. How much longer do I have to keep this up?”
We could have even more fun with lawyers. Politics and law are so much more ripe for scandal than simple romance or sex.