Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. The prompt is an interesting one, and those who are used to a bad system of government will think they have to give up their all before they are protected or are kept safe. No doubt that insecurity around the world is increasing rapidly; lives and properties are now treated like they are worthless or without any worth. There were days when so much value was placed on life and property; today things are completely different.
In my country the increase in insecurity is even 2 or 3 times more than that of the world; we are living in fear. There were days when we could travel with only fear of road accidents and probably robbers when you travel late at night. Today we travel with the fear of encountering policemen, encountering herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers, everything negative thing you can think of actually exists on our roads today, and the government is doing little or nothing about placing value once again on people's lives and property.
Today on the news it is either people losing their lives or properties getting destroyed, to a point I feel like we are slowly getting used to the news because even how we react after getting the news has changed. Before now, when you hear of a killing or shooting in a church or any public space, both online and offline, you get to see people's anger and annoyance and how they called out the government, but today it is different. When the need hits a lot of people, they just go on with their lives like it's nothing more, like they have gotten used to it or are tired of waiting for a change.
If at a point for my security the government offers me security but I will have to give up my privacy, I will decline because living like that is something I don't even wish for an enemy, let alone myself. I have lived in a house where I did not have a room of my own, and I had to share a room with the kids in the house, and that was when I realized the importance of privacy. I can only sleep at night because that is the only time the sitting room where I sleep is free and available for me to sleep in. Then imagine what it will feel like when someone knows everything about you down to what you eat.
A life with no privacy at all is not worth living, like when the government or other people get to listen to your every conversation, your every discussion, and everything about you is known by someone else in the name of security; that is not worth it. This means that your every move is monitored; even before you take the step or make the move, they already know you are about to do so. Your life becomes transparent glass; anyone can peep in and see what is going on.
I also believe that a government that really wants to keep you safe can do so without prying into your privacy. There are countries out there where people are safe; they sleep peacefully at night and still have privacy. They can do the same without wanting me to give up my privacy.