What is privacy, and why would we want any of it?

The word is privacy, not piracy.

We are born naked apes. When we are young, our parents read our diaries and listen in to our phone conversations and make all our decisions for us, so where do we get the idea of privacy? The dictionary tells us that it implies seclusion.

Somehow, the idea of privacy is linked to those ideas that came from the proverbial Adam and Eve that they were nude and needed to cover themselves, naked apes no longer. This idea happened at approximately the same time that they ate of the fruit of the Tree of Life, as suggested by Satan, so that they would possess the power of self determination, knowing the difference between good and evil.

I chuckle to myself.