Snowden DU Cognitive Dissonance Syndrome

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8. Anyone who thinks Snowden is a hero or a villain needs to read fewer comics

I never met the guy. He doesn't mean shit to me as a human being. I find his motivations irrelevant except maybe on a human interest level, but he doesn't intrigue me either. I do not care what he has to say, either.

He *says* the NSA does this or that? Who cares? It is some shit somebody says. Absent striking evidence in support I find almost anything he *says* to be of no interest.

The documents themselves are the story here. Actual NSA policy and activities. That's the story. I had heard of the NSA before last week and will be hearing about the NSA ten years from now. That's the story. Snowden? Who fucking cares? A hero? Whatever. A villain? Hey, if that helps you get through the night...

It's like if Einstein only worked up relativity to impress Jodie Foster. So what? Then that's why he did it... which wouldn't change whether the sun's gravity does or does not bend the light of distant stars visible around the edge of the sun.

And those, on either side, who don't get that Snowden means nothing really need to consume fewer comic books and teenage vampire romances and whatever other pablum makes them think that what is noteworthy about NSA policy is personalities and heroes vs. villains stuff.