Analysis Of Andrew Marantz's Unreality Stars

In “Unreality Stars”, Andrew Marantz talks about how almost “one percent of the United States’ population suffers from schizophrenia”, resulting in them not being able to determine what is reality and what is not (33). Some of the people who suffer from this extreme paranoia think that technology is their enemy because they may feel that they are being recorded on a live reality television show without them knowing or that the C.I.A has inserted computer chips into their brains. While those scenarios are highly unlikely, the unfortunate truth is that with today’s technology, people are being spied on and it is being used against them. Today, people of the United States are surrounded by technology everywhere they go, and the vast majority of the people fail to recognize the threats this poses. The purpose
The most recent exposure shows that the NSA is exploiting technology in order to spy and gather data on Americans, meaning that the NSA is no longer serving its primary purpose.
Edward Snowden was shown to have leaked thousands of top-secret government documents to the media. In “Edward Snowden: The New Brand of Whistle-Blower?”, Kara Hackett describes this leak as “one of the most sensational leaks of classified information in U.S. history” (27). Of those documents leaked, one them destroyed the NSA’s credibility because it shows how the NSA has been secretly utilizing various forms of technology in order to spy on citizens of the U.S. It also shows how they have been forcing companies to hand over information without the essential and proper warrants. In “The Surveillance Net”, Jonathan Schell gives an example of this when he says, “The National Security Agency has been secretly ordering Verizon to sweep up and hand over all the metadata from the phone calls of millions of its customers: phone numbers, duration of calls, routing information and sometimes the location of the callers” (3). This is