Why life through Google Glass should be for our eyes only

My commentary on the article linked above:

The Google Glass Technology is part and parcel of the New Age move toward enlightenment and specifically achieving the ultimate “collective consciousness”.

Theoretically, as society becomes increasingly saturated with video surveillance, and as the data gathered is increasingly centralized, the goal is that each human will be equipped with such a recording device from cradle to grave, and by feeding the data from every human being into one composite “recording” the comprehensive “collective consciousness” will be achieved in literal terms.

Imagine the implications in the courtroom:

The “mainframe” computer assimilates all the visual and audio recordings from the imbedded recording devices of each of the witnesses, traffic cams, and street-side light-post cameras, not to mention the store window mannequins.  An advanced program fuses all of the data together seamlessly and this composite video is played for judge, jury, defendant, counsel, and accused, all to view at once.  Nothing left to deliberation or chance.  Not hard to imagine how the antichrist would benefit from this technology and use it to control the masses.  Not only could no one buy or sell without the mark, but if they even attempted to do so, the authorities would know about it in “real time”.

The world we live in becomes more Orwellian every day.  This Google Glass technology is creepy.  But then, I think the reality shows where people voluntarily allow their every waking moment to be videotaped, are creepy enough.  What has caused such exhibitionism in people that they willingly embrace such invasive technology?  What does this pandemic narcissism stem from?

A lot of psychobabble could come into play here, about self-esteem, ego, etc.  But what it boils down to, really, is our sinful nature.  When we give our sin-nature free-reign, it will always be to our own ultimate detriment.

Many see Google Glass technology as just the latest cool tech-gadget, but it is indicative really, of something much more significant, which is our complete abandonment of self-restraint.  If left to our own devices, humanity would destroy itself.

2 Timothy 3: 1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Omniscience is just one more quality that belongs solely to God, which man wishes to usurp for himself.

All of our scientific and technological advances are not inherently evil, but mankind is!  And therefore God historically has put a halt to our advances when we have come to the brink of discoveries and capabilities which would harm humanity on a massive scale.

What do you think?  Is the concept of universal surveillance and recording of everything we say and do, a good thing?  What would be gained by achieving this “collective consciousness” and more importantly, what would be (and already is being) lost?  What did mankind lose when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

As a parent, and especially as a parent who blogs every day about the news as it relates to scripture and specifically the end-times, I naturally desire for my kids to be shielded from having to know the bad things about life any sooner than necessary.  Children barely get the opportunity to be blissfully unaware of evil in this day and age.  Too many know evil firsthand.  It is heart-rending to think of the babies in the classroom at Sandy Hook. For those who survived, and witnessed the death of their classmates, a great degree of security and innocence is forever lost to them.  Children stolen from streets on their way home from school and sold into the sex trade industry never get the opportunity to have any semblance of a carefree childhood.

This is the “knowledge” which God wished for Adam and Eve (and all mankind) to avoid.  We can “know” (in theory) that rape is a horrible painful experience, without having it happen to us, but rest assured that knowing it firsthand by experience, is a whole different level of knowing, and much more painful.

When this age comes to an end, when Judgment has been meted out, those who are redeemed by the washing of the blood of Jesus, will be with God forever and have every tear washed away.  I believe that we will once again exist in that state in which we do not have to know evil.   A return to youth and child-like innocence with a heavenly father who is over us, and there is no more war or strife or conflict.  What a refreshment that will be.