EVERYONE HAS THEIR ‘SECRET ADMIRER’

Carousel is a musical drama which was staged in 1945 by Oscar Hammerstein as lyricist Richard Rodgers as song writer and music director. The epic told the story of two lovers Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, both came from lowest working class. One of a time Julie found herself pregnant, and Billy, stressed by their stated financial urgency, attempted to a robbery as he intended to get money quickly for his wife and future children. But, alas, the robbery was failed and reckless Billy killed himself to avoid arrest by the authorities. This tragedy dropped Julie to devastate. It was then when second sequence of the epic opened with a musical consolation dedicate to Julie, when her cousin, Nettie Fowler, brought a legendary song that will supposedly still sung by millions of people around the world today, You'll Never Walk Alone.

The truth is, we did never walked alone. No, our shadows could not pretend to accompany, as they would vanished behalf the sinking sun. Nor lover, parents, children, relatives and playmates, because soon time would came across to take one of us into eternal dimension. Nor is God, because we never notified whether He came by or said ‘good bye’. Please note that my idea was not intended to patronize, either philosophy-boasted or self-motivated. This is presented as a reflection on rumors that spread over the internet lately about the existence of those secret persons as well as group who were always patiently watching, observing, recording, documenting and taping every single moves and activities of every living human. They discovered what time you go for work, college or school, name of your employer, employees, parents, children, husbands, wives, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, mistresses. They know who sat beside you for lunch, what caused a high-tense quarrel with your wife / husband, the reason of a fellow's office bullying, how much money do you keep in bank account and how much bank loans you haven’t pay for years.

An article entitled 'Social Media Surveillance Governmental Stratfor Email Leaked WikiLeaks' stated that' not only the CIA OSC, and Stratfor are monitoring Facebook and Twitter or other social medias - The NSA also and for sure Germanys BND and other surveillance agencies are up into the great spying machine called the internet, together with social media networks as their most powerful tools. "Not only CIA OSC (Open Source Center), but also the NSA, an intelligence agency BND and a number of other foreign countries maintain highly attention and interest throughout internet both social media. On behalf of certain efforts to maintain stability and security of the State, they confessed themselves as the ones who responsible for monitoring by means of CCTV installed at every vital objects, tapping offices, public, private and intimate phone conversations, recording mass fingerprinting and some others 'stalking' activities. Surveillance is usually conducted to a number of people who could potentially be a 'pest' for stability, such as labor unionists, ‘straight’ public workers, student activists, NGO, environmental issues observers, and other protests artisan.

Privacy Right Violation?
Some have criticized this policy as a violation of individual privacy. Despite the fact that long before the policy is applied, we seek curiously over the private lives of singers, movie player, athletes, royals, politicians and any other famous figures. This could be a serious violation against right of privacy, accompanied by measures to disseminate private life of the star in bulk to attract advertisers, in the name of financial benefit. However, we won’t consider the D factor in this writing, or Deliberate, which is meant as a quick effort to gain popularity by unrevealed their personal life to the public.

Haven’t you realized that we do, consciously either unconsciously, often sell our personal lives to the public through the expression of anger, hatred, happiness, unhappiness, and exaggerate sentences through status updates on social networks? We have intentionally opened up for them, the observers, who concluded easily every dark and white sides of yourself. So what? We didn’t recognize each other, probably refused to keep intention to know their names, who they work for, but wait, are they still human? You know me, but do I know you? Whether they are real, it wouldn’t be uncovered nearly these days.  All we know for sure, people pay attention at a huge portion to the existence of the observers, which have been proofed by number of triumph films inspired by the sweetness intelligence stories like Munich, Enemy Of The State, Bourne Trilogy, Breach, Spy Game, and  the Oscars winner , Argo.

We can conclude that the surveillance has been a major policy created by the modern age authorities to allow themselves and give them right to be freely watch us from above, abandon your uncomfortable to imagine that somebody out there noted how many times a day you made love to your beloved one. Can we ban the initiative of a group of people who are willing to patrol all night without compensation in order to maintain security of the whole citizens? Can we judge a progressive intention by taking preventive efforts even if disturbances were still being imagined? Why should we worry about the revelation of our own darkest time in the past, while we’re just common simple persons who want to live in peace?

Standing Applaus
Once upon a time, there was sad news spread among us about a colleague who had passed away. He was known as a multi-talented artist proficient in various areas of the arts, including painting and playing musical instruments. He loved them as he loved himself, and he couldn’t decide between those two exhilarate springs. Time passed and he was ready to marry his lover. As he stood as the head of his family who responsible to earn some money and provide a living, he faced a complicated matter to choose between painting or music as a solution for the new family’s financial problems. But he never been born as a decisive man, and never will. Uncertain thought slowly caught his consciousness little by little, resulting him fall to his pain and never woke up again forever. Shortly before the coma, I had questioned him on his doubtful idea not to vote. 'Well,' he replied 'you know a lot of painters who worked hard then rich, but they will never get any of those applause'.

That's why artists tend to appear eccentric, confidence to perform lifetime madness in the middle of normal human beings in their daily lives. They attract the audience through their unique personality , unwittingly or not is a part of his/ her effort to grab the attention of people to their masterpieces. They appear and utilize multiple devices, including himself, as a medium of expression to bring his ideas. Freedom of expression has been declared clearly since many years ago, assumed that everyone has their right to express themselves even though  no talent of art at all. In fact, we are gathered under surveillance who kept their eyes open to any of our ideas and activities. Suspicious minded spread among us after the several mass-tragedies increased recently. We became more strangers than before, as considered as naive, fragile, naive, less intelligent, and underestimate  second class citizens.

We have long recognized that the world is indeed a stage. Under the bright lights glitter we portray the play of our own private life episodes. One time we played a winner, on another day we wore masks of looser. However, a performer in need of audience to give them a standing ovation, as well as a toss of a penny or a throwing shoe. Let’s pretend we have secret admirers out there to lurk, either to applause us.  (Swastantika)