Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Fantasy

&gt; The Rubik’s cube almost as a sex toy of those paranoid for dataveillance, a symbol of the genius needed to beat corrupt political systems.<p>Honestly? What is this garbage? Interesting commentary, maybe, but I can&#x27;t say I agree with any of this. Is this a respected author or news source of whose opinion I should be more accepting?

Maybe it&#x27;s just because I don&#x27;t frequent social networks all that much, but I&#x27;ve never been exposed to this sort of depiction of Edward Snowden. The only coverage I&#x27;ve come across of him focused solely on what he did or his current predicament, not his image.<p>Even calling that Wired cover &quot;sexualized&quot; seems a little farfetched to me.

One can further an argument in this way - by simultaneously writing an article sexualizing Snowden and arguing that he is being sexualized in articles.<p>Recursion should be old hat to this crowd, though. It&#x27;s not interesting or thought provoking.

I followed this expecting an analysis of the &quot;whistleblower protection&quot; that some people think Snowdon could have availed himself of. Instead I got &quot;Hey, look, I hope you&#x27;re not being distracted by this big media distraction I&#x27;m part of.&quot;

When presenting ideas to primates, it&#x27;s helpful to create emotion and tension by introducing an element of sex. This applies to any ideas whatsoever.<p>We are animals.

This diatribe is regarding the media&#x27;s handling of one of <i>many</i> recent whistleblower stories, and an atypical one at that. After beginning with a historical expiation of the etymology of the term, the author goes on to discard other current whistleblower stories, the vast majority of which the media has covered in a starkly different manner, and commits the sin they are condemning, that of sesationalizing the Snowden case.

what if this writing is sci-fi theoretical non-fiction? What makes you ascribe the quality of adolescence onto certain forms of theorizing?

Hilariously adolescent garbage.