Page 94 Desmet: “The narrowing of the field of attention also extends to the emotional field: Victims of the pandemic response measures have elicited remarkably little empathy. For these victims, there are no daily statistics, no case descriptions, and no testimonials from relatives covered in the media. Also, consider a virologist’s statement that a boy who died at a so-called lockdown party deserved “zero pity.” 30 These victims fall outside the circle of light, both cognitively and emotionally.”
Page 120 Zuboff: “The six declarations laid the foundation for the wider project of surveillance capitalism and its original sin of dispossession. They must be defended at any cost because each declaration builds on the one before it. If one falls, they all fall:
1. We claim human experience as raw material free for the taking. On the basis of this claim, we can
ignore considerations of individuals’ rights, interests, awareness, or comprehension.
2. On the basis of our claim, we assert the right to take an individual’s experience for translation
into behavioral data.
3. Our right to take, based on our claim of free raw material, confers the right to own the behavioral
data derived from human experience.
4. Our rights to take and to own confer the right to know what the data disclose.
5. Our rights to take, to own, and to know confer the right to decide how we use our knowledge.
6. Our rights to take, to own, to know, and to decide confer our rights to the conditions that preserve
our rights to take, to own, to know, and to decide.”