"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
The quote above is often attributed to the famous quote "evil prevails when good men do not act" - the origins of which nobody seems to know conclusively.
I've always said that apathy will be the death of us.
Well, it depends who is being apathetic - if the bad guys are apathetic, happy days; but they rarely are.
Most of you would have heard of the recent leak of a classified US surveillance program called PRISM. This has been the biggest exposure of US government surveillance since Wikileaks and Cablegate back in 2010.
Given the gravity of this information, The Daily Quota will dedicate a huge post to this leak within the week.
However, what really distresses me is that no one seems to know about it - or if they do, they are either quiet about it, or they just don't care. Not a single comment. Half a day of mainstream media exposure. Obama even admitted they were doing it - but it's 'okay because it's legal'.
Apathy will, indeed, be the end of us - and we probably deserve the fate that we will be dealt.
Today's Daily Quota is a comical prequel to this week's upcoming PRISM post. It's a light-hearted comic from the folks over at Joy of Tech which highlights the hypocritical nature of everyone's response. The sad this is it's not only true - it's a significant rarity.
- Edmund Burke
Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontent (1770)
The quote above is often attributed to the famous quote "evil prevails when good men do not act" - the origins of which nobody seems to know conclusively.
I've always said that apathy will be the death of us.
Well, it depends who is being apathetic - if the bad guys are apathetic, happy days; but they rarely are.
Most of you would have heard of the recent leak of a classified US surveillance program called PRISM. This has been the biggest exposure of US government surveillance since Wikileaks and Cablegate back in 2010.
Given the gravity of this information, The Daily Quota will dedicate a huge post to this leak within the week.
However, what really distresses me is that no one seems to know about it - or if they do, they are either quiet about it, or they just don't care. Not a single comment. Half a day of mainstream media exposure. Obama even admitted they were doing it - but it's 'okay because it's legal'.
Apathy will, indeed, be the end of us - and we probably deserve the fate that we will be dealt.
Today's Daily Quota is a comical prequel to this week's upcoming PRISM post. It's a light-hearted comic from the folks over at Joy of Tech which highlights the hypocritical nature of everyone's response. The sad this is it's not only true - it's a significant rarity.
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