As the title says I live in a surveillance state where among other things the government uses paid snitches, listening devices in your home, installs Trojans/malware in your phone and computer, even outside agents can stalk and observe you 7/24.
I may not be a target of any of this as I am didn’t commit any of the crimes required to do these (for example being involved with cannabis, or helping illegal aliens or some crimes that actually warrant this like organized crime and so forth)
However with the snitch system were convicted criminals are incentivized to incriminate others to save their own skin I am not put at ease with assurances that if you have nothing to hide that you would have nothing to fear.
I do not believe however that the surveillance state is intended to prevent terrorism or organized crime. I believe the true intention of the surveillance state is to consolidate power and nip any sort of true dissent in the bud.
So in imho if you were to call out the government on their bullshit you would stand to be victimized. Even if you are well within your rights with regards to freedom of speech/thought/assembly.
So if everything on your computer may be subject to government’s prying eyes, you’d need your own language and alphabet/writing system to at least retain the ability to keep notes and write a diary.
I would like to be able to note down my thoughts without having to fear the government can read it.
I was thinking of something like Tolkiens Elven tongue/language. I know it is a lot of work especially since it is only for internal use.
What’s your opinion on this?
Cockney slang exists for this reason.
Toki Pona is a constructed language that can be learned in a day, as well.
Also Esperanto.
There’s millions of examples of this. Everywhere there’s an oppressed minority group, that group eventually develops its own dialect that mutates quickly to make it easier to identify in-group members and to confuse authorities of the majority group.
That isn’t a secure comms strategy though, it’s just something that happens organically. All the oppressing group needs to do is recruit a defector from the oppressed group and they can understand everything.
Cryptography is how you do it. And cryptography exists and is easily accessible, unless OP truly believes everything electronic has government spy tech in it, which is the realm of actual paranoia.
If Toki Pona and Esperanto are so easy to learn, what’s stopping the government from learning/translating it too?
… Incompetence?
Lack of need to do so to track dissidents deemed dangerous to the function of the state
The closest esperanto ever got to revolutionary usage was that some esperantists taught it to others in Gulags and Concentration camps while pretending it was another language to avoid the suspicion of Nazis and Soviets, who both regarded it as subversive because it was a language explicitly designed to be “easy” to learn and to encourage international cooperation
Toki-Pona was invented in the 2000s and achieves it’s low word count by basically just reducing itself to a pre-civilizational language without concepts for most colors and not having a proper numeral system, things that might be necessary for use in inspiring and carrying out an ideologically motivated revolution.
The closest America has to a language usable as a code language used by a dissident underclass is AAVE, which is a dialect of english that’s been trending towards american standard english as time has gone by and is even easier to learn to understand than Toki-Pona or Esperanto if a man in a suit was determined enough to spy on its speakers.
But isn’t cockney slang very easily understood due to it’s popularity? Was it at one time difficult to understand for outsiders? I had no idea about this.