In 2010 when i was aware of social credit amd facial recognition technology and observed our inescapable wifi and video feed dungeon, i was a "kook" and "blerha blerg CoNsPiRaCy."

Then Snowden. Now instead of "blerha blerg CoNsPiRaCy" it's "everybody knows that, so what?"

All of his running and hiding and headlines and data and all he did was change the normy mind from "they aren't listening" to "ssssshh, they're listening." Objective of the operation.

Contrast w Bradley Manning. He exposed war crimes for which a Durham-style series of indictments would have ended the war and hung th Bush administration.

One they tortured and turned into a girl. The other one is played by J Gordon Levitt in a popular and hyped movie.