false lives

So it turns out that if you want to, you can get all the equipment to stalk someone almost anywhere. If you look up something like "spy gear" on google, you get some sites for toys, and some that have a variety of gadgets for surveillance, tracking vehicles, electrocuting thieves, and tapping phones and computers. You can also get instructional books and videos to aid you your project, whatever it may be. The question of the day, then, is this: who, aside from police and criminals would actually need that stuff? Admittedly, it would be fun to have some of it, but a briefcase that emits 50,000 volts if moved wrong? It seems that some people feel a need to have their lives play out like an action movie, of which they are the center, otherwise they can't really be "living life at it's fullest". The only problem with that is that for the most part, it's not liveing life anymore than watching a movie. Those skills can be useful, but they aren't necessary unless you need them on a proffessional basis.

On a similar note, I reccommend everyone read a book called Bimbos of the Death Sun, you'll get an idea of the kind of people I'm talking about.