In an age of universal surveillance and blackmail, involuntary porn, state-mandated voyeurism, mass rape and sodomy of prisoners, Google-Glass, and citizen-spying, modest swim-wear might be the most astute political statement a woman can make.
It protects her privacy and dignity from snoopers and pornographers, looking for cheap shots, as well as from state operatives and contractors, fattening their files for blackmailing purposes.
I’ve made the connection between surveillance and blackmail many times on this blog and even back in 2004, in essays on virtual crime (used later in Language of Empire).
Alfred McCoy’s recent piece on the subject (cited above) substantiates the accuracy of my analysis.
The making and circulation of pornographic images are powerful tools of the state-corporate complex.
The key role of such images in blackmailing operations that universalize the power of the state is precisely the reason I am less than admiring of theorists who praise the public virtues of blackmail unthinkingly, people like Murray Rothbard and Walter Block.
Check out the Christian blog, Big-is-Beautiful, for attractive, modern swimwear that is modest….
..that lets a woman be a lady and leaves her physical dignity and privacy intact.
(Here is a list of modest swim-wear made for Jewish ladies; this one is for Muslims).
