Jamal Awil

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The real psychological truth is this: If you’ve got nothing to hide. [fact]

Those who would eviscerate sanctuary are keen to take the offensive, putting us off guard with the guilt-inducing question “What have you got to hide?” But as we have seen, the crucial developmental challenges of the self-other balance cannot be negotiated adequately without the sanctity of “disconnected” time and space for the ripening of inward awareness and the possibility of reflexivity: reflection on and by oneself. The real psychological truth is this: If you’ve got nothing to hide, you are nothing.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1529