Epiphany

I’m on a bus crossing Westminster Bridge and find myself noticing anomalous CCTV cameras everywhere. As the faux-gothic splendour of the Houses of Parliament gives way to the fine gothic splendour of Westminster Abbey, I reflect on this. An increasing number of people take umbrage at the ubiquity of surveillance and data gathering in our society. They talk of totalitarianism, and erosion of our civil rights, but it dawns on me that I feel my freedom to be far more circumscribed and curtailed by debt than by the state. The ideology of capitalism has enslaved me, made me tame, and this knowledge strengthens my intent to be free of my financial shackles.