Doors are part and parcel of this modern age, meant to provide us not only with privacy, where such privacy is warranted, but also to segregate us from curiosity seekers and also the outside world, so that we are not living our lives in the full view of the public at all times, but instead this permits ourselves to be about our personal business and our lives without undue interference or observation from those that should not be permitted or don’t have our expressed authorization to have such a view.
Yet, because of social media, our cell phones, as well as other sophisticated devices that know our whereabouts at all times, and can listen to not only our commands, but also can simply listen in without us knowing that we are being monitored, signifies that what we do behind closed doors has for a certainty, been compromised. This means, especially for those that are the uninitiated or are not that sophisticated, that never has so much actionable information about us is now essentially being disseminated to agents and entities both known and unknown, of which, such information is so extensive that what we believe is private or should be private about our personal business, is actually also held in the hands of those that may not only not have our best interests in mind, but regrettably this also has been transferred or sold to other agencies that provides them with the opportunity to take advantage of us, or even to compromise us.
To believe that in this day and age a closed door, means that nobody other than those that are with us behind that close door, knows our most personal business, should no longer be the default view, because so much of what we do is being recorded and stored, by the very instruments that we utilize each and every day, of which, because this is the case, permits those that have access to that information, to know details about us, that permits them to know us intimately, along therefore with often knowing our foibles and most prominent failures, as well.
To no longer have the safety and security that a closed door represents makes us to be vulnerable to those who desire to use this information in a way and manner that could easily hurt us or compromise us, and since information is power, the fact that we do not control that information being dispersed about us, makes us vulnerable to those that have that information, as well as placing us in the unenviable situation in which those that have such information about us, have the capability of using adverse information against us, whenever it suits their interests, and thereby ultimately to our lasting regret.
Indeed, there was a time when a closed door represented our way of dividing ourselves from the world, in order to have private time with our friends, family, and thoughts. Nowadays, while we may still have the physical closed door, we have inadvertently or advertently let in that which monitors us to such a degree that our life is now an open book, for better or for much, much worse.