I never thought I’d live in a world where people gleefully subject themselves to surveillance and control technologies like Facebook and this garbage.

Sure, I will put Alexa in my home — a device that literally listens to all my conversations and sends them to who knows where.

That sounds like a great idea. Sign me up. Really avoids inconveniencing the NSA, FBI, etc. Instead of bothering to bug my domicile, I pay all the costs. It’s laissez-faire snooping. Ah, the glories of market-based solutions.

If you’d told me Trump would be president when I was a kid — ok, sounds weird, but maybe.

If you’d told me that people would willingly subject themselves to Facebook’s program of surveillance and manipulation, and would voluntarily pay to place bugging devices in their homes and would also carry tracking devices in their pockets at all times — I would’ve thought you to be absolutely raving mad and would’ve laughed at you.

But here we are.