Erase Your Face

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Erase your face

I get out of the house and walk towards the station

It’s dark, deserted, I’m feeling lonely but connected

Every move is being recorded and I know it

But my anger is a gift

And my biggest secret is that I actually stopped existing

I’m surprised how indifferent so many feel about the surveillance scandal

Look up Germany’s history

I have spoken to people who lived in Nazi and eastern socialist Germany

The spying on your life by the state is one thing but what it does to your friends and family in the long run is beyond anything you can imagine right now

You lose trust in people you love, every conversation becomes half lie / half truth

It becomes part of everybody’s lives

Nobody is an exception

Ignore music, games or whatever you do right now and research the topic

Anything you have said in the past can be twisted against you in a surveillance state

Made the wrong joke in private?

You are constantly being blackmailed by those in charge

History has shown that these types of societies never last

They get so corrupted with lies that many people will suffer in the end

Everybody loses