Private Eye

I read a bit of a book recently. "Little Brother" by some guy. Didn't really like it much, never finished it. At any rate the general theme was that rebellious teenagers are cool and the Department of Homeland Seccurity is not cool.

What did strike my interest, though, was this bit the guy wrote about privacy. Everyone has private things in their life, like going to the bathroom, taking a shower, intimate relations, etc. For some of us even our religion is private. Its not something any of us really feel guilty or ashamed of doing, everybody has to sometime, but generally we don't like to make these things public because they're, well, private. I think a lot of us (at least, I know somethymes I do) feel like we've been "caught in the act" when someone accidentally walks in the room without knocking or picks up the phone during a cconversation, even though nothing wrong is going on. Some people don't evenn like to discuss the issues that are involved with these kinds of things, and people will even put themselves to great lengths in order to retain their sense of privacy.

Well, I can't remember where I was going with this, put I thought it was mighty interesting. Maybe I was just ignorant before. But I think I'll be looking further into the matter in the near future.