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Re:Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible by lukifer on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:09PM (#6137729)
"People do not react to abstractions. They only react to direct experience. Very few people are even interested in abstractions, and even fewer people can become emotionally involved or emotionally react to an abstract thing."

- Stanley Kubrick http://youtu.be/xa-KBqOFgDQ?t=51m30s

It's worth noting that this was in the context of nothing less than the atom bomb.

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