The Primitive Awakened

The subject of invasion of privacy versus public safety unleashes some xenophobic reactions in this blog post about a police search in Amsterdam last November.

The post starts with a video of the stop-and-search. The most shocking aspect is not the video itself, but the enraged hostility of many commenters towards the blogger - an American they assume is a tourist, in a time when the US administration has made itself unpopular.

The comments give a worrying picture of the potential for disintegration of our behaviour towards one another as security measures tighten up our lives.

We are primitives still. Ripe material for Leaders to mould.