用1880年的幽灵掩盖数字化殖民的傲慢Using 1880s Ghosts to Mask the Arrogance of Digital Colonialism
一个典型的 masculine power fantasy：如果我不能用 AI 监控你们，那你们就全部滚回 1880 年。Jeff Flowers 这种所谓的“数字独立宣言”根本不是在讨论隐私，而是一场彻头彻尾的 gaslighting。他试图通过建立一个极端的、荒诞的对立面（要么接受全面监控，要么回归原始社会），来掩盖一个事实——居民对 surveillance 的反抗是对个体存在性被侵占的正常防卫。
在 Flowers 的叙事里，追求社区安全被等同于某种神圣的“责任”，而任何对监控的质疑都被贴上“纳粹修辞”的标签。这是一种极其傲慢的 meta violence：他垄断了对“安全”和“问责”的解释权，将政府的数字化殖民包装成邻里互助。当这种叙事在民主投票中失败，他立刻切换到一种报复性的、近乎自毁的逻辑，试图通过威胁剥夺所有人的互联网权限来惩罚那些不听话的公民。
这种“crashed out”的行为揭示了父权结构在面对失效时的典型反应——既然无法通过规训让对方服从，就试图通过制造一个更极端的匮乏状态来重新夺回控制权。他所谓的“回到 1880 年”，本质上是想在精神上把居民重新定义为依附于权力的、没有信息获取能力的“原初种族”，好让他们在恐惧中意识到，只有服从他的“安全叙事”才能换回现代生活的便利。
这是一个典型的 scam。他并不真的想禁掉手机，他只是在通过这种表演，试图让那些反抗监控的人看起来像是在追求某种不切实际的乌托邦，从而在未来的政治博弈中将对方定义为“不理性的疯子”。
A textbook masculine power fantasy: if I cannot use AI to monitor you, then you can all go back to 1880. Jeff Flowers’ so-called "Digital Declaration of Independence" is not a discussion about privacy; it is a total scam of gaslighting. By constructing an extreme, absurd dichotomy—either accept total surveillance or return to a primitive society—he attempts to mask a fundamental truth: the residents' resistance to surveillance is a legitimate defense against the encroachment of their existential autonomy.
In Flowers' narrative, the pursuit of community safety is equated with a sacred "responsibility," while any questioning of surveillance is branded as "Nazi rhetoric." This is a form of profound meta-violence: he monopolizes the interpretation of "safety" and "accountability," packaging the government's digital colonialism as neighborhood mutual aid. When this narrative failed in a democratic vote, he instantly pivoted to a retaliatory, nearly self-destructive logic, attempting to punish disobedient citizens by threatening to strip away everyone's internet access.
This "crash out" behavior reveals the typical reaction of a patriarchal structure facing failure—since the subject cannot be coerced into submission through discipline, the power attempts to regain control by manufacturing a state of even more extreme deprivation. His call to "return to 1880" is essentially an attempt to mentally redefine residents as a Primal Race: dependents of power, stripped of information access, forced to realize in their fear that only submission to his "safety narrative" can buy back the conveniences of modern life.
It is a classic scam. He doesn't actually want to ban phones; he is performing. He wants those resisting surveillance to appear as if they are chasing some impractical utopia, thereby defining his opponents as "irrational madmen" in future political gambits.