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Citizen Four (2014, Documentary) Obviously this documentary got a load full of attention and accolades because of the controversy that it had managed to propagate. From an infotainment viewpoint, it did little to provide more than we already know. It showcased the behind-the-scene happenings surrounding Edward Snowden's first whistleblowing interview in Hong Kong back in 2013. Snowden gives a low-down account of how the Government agencies tap information into our personal details and our daily activities more than it has to know. At the end of the day, the biggest question remains where one draws the boundary between privacy (or freedom and liberty) and national security especially in the present day world security situation. Should the ruling class be in control as the general population is the dark of what is really required of life? That privacy is just a fallacy to hide one's devious schemes to create mischief? Or that the rulers have a paternalistic role to ensure...

There was a time, back in the days when the upper echelon of society would just exert their authority on the mostly illiterate, the helpless, the bewildered lower crust of society or natives. Words like 'you listen', 'I tell you', 'do as I say I say, not as I do' would be used with impunity to get things done. And the the elites, the one in power, the leaders could just get away with almost anything. The simpletons amongst the working class thought the elitist knew what they were doing. They thought everything was done in the interest of what they were sent to Earth to do. It was not their position to question. Some even believed that they had descended from the Gods. To disagree was cardinal  sin and treason of the highest order. Teachers, Rulers, Leaders, Heads of Family, professionals can do no wrong. Any mishaps were pure acts of God, predestined and misadventures. Things changed and change it did. In my mind, education and dissemination of information are...