I think the answer to that question is nowhere, but…

Raises pointer finger skyward, and opens mouth.

You see… the problem with Pax Americana is… *sigh*

Snaps mouth shut in disgruntled frown.

Well there are a lot of problems with it.

We funded death squads in Nicaragua. Our military budget is yuuuuge. We have flying robots going around killing people.

And then there are good things like the NATO check on Russian power. Without it they probably wouldn’t behave.

In order to maintain global hegemony you kind of have to know what people are up to. I guess that’s why I don’t care all that much, why it never really bothered me and I just assumed it was already happening. Maybe that’s naiive of me, I don’t know. All I know is, I don’t want to know how many terror plots are thwarted. Somebody else gets paid to think about that, and I’m glad they do. Do you know how much anxiety medication I would need to do that job? A lot. The answer is a lot.

The question I think we need to ask is, how much liberty are we willing to give up for security — right?

For me that bar might be higher than someone else’s bar, maybe it’s lower than others, but the thing that’s really really good about what Snowden did, is that he called attention to the fact that the NSA’s power hasn’t been codified. And it should be. As a citizen, I can’t write and pass a law on up the ladder, all I can do is point out where things aren’t right.