Passing the cost and other diverting anecdotes

This picture (nice technology that disable copy) tells a story. Apparently taken at the US consulate in Munich, it shows the full hand of a candidate for visa registration being scanned, while behind a heavy glass pane stands or sits an emotionless guy who stands probably for the authorities, a consulate staff maybe. The glass pane may actually be thin, but the expressionless look of the guy increase the bureaucratic flavor of the scene and the thickness of it all, where trust is replaced by systemic mistrust. The article illustrated by the picture tells about the cost increase of visa processing passed to the "customers". Any other piece of article covering the acute securization of societies diverts from fundamentals, serving the loop of anecdotes crave that asks for more and dims the wits. Passing the cost of the visible scanners and the invisible memory units to the end-users is as lame as any anonymous comment referring to biometrics measures being a nothing to fuss about, as it has already been implemented somewhere else. Not being the first defuses the right to consider the validity and social consequences of acute securization. The shiny, deodorized, flat interaction between the "consumer" and the authority as transparent and innocuous as it seems pushes forward mistrust by default as the norm. Mistrust and FaceBook (with it's creator's urge to pass along personal data to third party as a matter of fact) coming together on the surface of superficiality is no surprise where conviviality is thinned out or faked with smiles billed at 0 yens. One thrust for relationship at users level - FaceBook - is fueled by antagonistic forces pushing bureaucratically managed mistrust as a matter of fact. The good citizen is that who instantly wipes away voiced over concerns with the dart of "they do the same elsewhere, so what?" Voices of discontent cleanly dealt with, without authorities and muscle being called upon. Self-policing is the differentiator of soft societies, those that hide under the cover of systems and procedures what is dealt with strength in countries where they still don't get it. And as we pay for mistrust to be here to stay, intellectually challenging state discrimination seems to be dead at birth. In the meantime, they separate mixed couples at entry points. An International Day of Mistrust is in demand. A "Segregation told to kids" video game too.