Say "Hello" to the Man Behind the Curtain (He's the stalker you wanted to know about)

    I'm sure that a lot of people have sensed or noticed heightened vigilance in society over "stalkers." What most people have not probably considered is that the cause of the phenomenon of concern could be subterfuge of subconscious mechanisms (in coordination possibly with covert or subliminal efforts by corporations) by which people's unconscious guilt for participating with, being compliant with, complicit with, (or otherwise silently approving) harmful systems that do actually "stalk" average citizens for real, is projected on someone other than the real cause of their inner distress, worry, and heavy-laden guilt. These systems could include corporate America, the banking industry, the government (the IRS mostly comes to mind- thank you David Foster Wallace for The Pale King, the book from which I took down some nice notes to go over later, mainly concerning the political/economic theories of Alexis de Tocqueville, participatory democracy, corporations, civic responsibility, legislating morals, etc). For example, someone might feel unconsciously guilty about being perfectly compliant with paying their taxes on time when the IRS is literally a threat to their personal safety and security (in terms of prison time and financial loss). It could be said that to that person, the IRS is their stalker for issuing subtle threats of harm to their safety (And yes, I do recognize my own libertarian overtones here). Our subject, wanting to feel part of a greater whole, and due to a wide variety of other reasons and influences (like not wanting to go to prison), does pay his taxes on time and chooses to buy into the system and into the ethics of his own choice to do so. (A lot can be said for simply complying actually. I myself actually comply.) However, the subconscious suppression of guilt away from conscious awareness will inevitably result in that person "projecting" blame onto another that which they have internalized. This blame projected consists actually of blame which that person originally felt towards himself for complying with a system he knows is stalking him. Now, from his own psychological defense mechanisms, he fears that his next door neighbor is a weirdo who is stalking him.
   Technically, any organization which threatens its members with "severe consequences" or "drastic action" for failure to pay bills or otherwise take action, is actually one of the entities that is technically "stalking" citizens. Let's face it- companies also "follow" us to varying degrees. It does not fail to dawn on me that I'm applying a typical penal code measure meant for individuals and pointing it towards the behavior of companies and groups. However, that is the ego confusion which is part of all this nasty business, because everyone who partakes in all the systems of society without any fuss or complaint, whoever is quietly and happily in agreement with it all is also complicit with actions that would be called "stalking" if done by one individual to another.
   I cannot actually overemphasize the point that it is not really an immoral action to pay taxes or participate in American democracy. It was Christ, after all, who said, "...render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's" (Matthew 22:21). Immorality enters in with hypocrisy and unrighteous projection of guilt and the resulting blame game that causes people to go on the lookout for the weirdo stalking them. Deceptive strategery of corporations and organizations, insofar as it really goes on, is fairly blameworthy and lacking in ethics. How can we know that it does go on? Well, possibly to the extent that us, as Americans, are made to feel like the government is there to decide and enforce morals while the "good citizens" are free to go put down their debit and credit cards on "entertainment." Sacrificed in that transaction is civic responsibility, autonomy (possibly as Foster Wallace implied in his novel) and any semblance of ethics and morals not bound completely with the judicial system (especially, here, the "punitive justice system.") Obviously, then, the heavy hitters in that game of thought are the Hollywood movie industry and the credit card companies. News media outlets of America are also possibly to blame for over-obsession with the evil of individual criminals- giving exhaustive news time to every recent crime and jailing. If many more people actually did start to think autonomously about ethics and morals, then that would result in some actually exercising personal authority (hint, hint...accepting Christ even). I feel that is not a cause really in the best interests of wealthy corporate owners and CEO's whose own interests include only accumulating more wealth than what they already have. Let's just say greed, perhaps, has governed the day.
   To actual real victims of crime I have empathy and sympathy. Hopefully, though, people will understand what I mean here. I also do not mean to completely undermine or criticize the American political and economic system. My actual viewpoint is fairly mainstream. I don't have a general problem with "corporations" or big business. My complaints are only specifically what I stated here.
   [ I am aware that The Pale King is a work of fiction. That fact does not negate from what I've said here because, for one, I have my own flow of ideas separate from that book. Secondly, The Pale King is descriptive of many real ideas and concepts notwithstanding it being fiction- like the mention of de Tocqueville, for example. I don't see the "fiction" category as permission to wholeheartedly disregard the whole work as tripe, but neither is every fact completely literal. It is easier to say I have my own path-string of ideas, and take from David Foster Wallace what you will.]