A Spit in the Ocean

I’m going to reach 1000 followers soon. To all of you, I want to
  say thank you for the conversations we’ve had and the attention you
  gave to me.

  But I’m going to close my Google+ account, as well as my GMail account,
  because I don’t like the idea of having a corporation, however well
  intended it could be, have me as a Guinea pig for their social
  mass-surveillance. I’m referring to the upcoming privacy policy of
  Google.

  I know that I’m alienating myself by doing so, by refusing what
  seems like an evidence nowadays. I have no Facebook account, no
  car, no phone, no TV set, not even a bank account. Now, I’m gonna
  have no Google. G+ is a great product. But it’s not worth the
  trade-off.

  I am the enemy, the marginal, the terrorist, the fool. I’m a spit
  in the ocean. Hopefully others will follow and realize that “the
  profit motive” is not the right way to look at life on Earth.

  I wish there were more people willing to stand by their heartbeats,
  follow the intuition of the blood pounding hard from within. I find
  it shameful that we know how to send people in deep space and are
  unable to deal with poverty, with war, with corruption, with the
  other.

  Who really wants to measure the success of their life to the size
  of their TV set or the ability to travel to foreign countries where
  people live a year with your monthly spending in chewing-gum?

  In the few thousands of years of civilization, human morality
  barely evolved. Humans should be the most beautiful living things
  on this planet, because of their ability to become: but we’re the
  most hideous, for our infinite capacity to look away, cherish our
  own stupidity as the best manifestation of genius, and refuse to
  embrace powerful visions that cannot bear a listing price.

  By participating in this mass-surveillance system, be it Facebook
  or Google+, we leave the space for evil people to get the grip and
  break the most beautiful things apart, we allow them to exist and
  thrive. By not participating, we take the risk that only people
  like us don’t participate, and that society evolves to make us the
  next Roms, the next Jews, the next generation of non-conforming
  humans that need to be eliminated.

  I will continue working on alternate communication systems that
  take privacy as a design requirement, not something obsolete. I
  will continue to use the Internet for end-to-end purpose, with
  people I cherish. But I won’t participate anymore in so-called
  social media that don’t proceed from actual communities nor nourish
  them. Facebook and Google+ nourish like baby milk: with poison
  inside. Stop smoking before cancer strikes.