Greed and General Alexander

General Alexander is the head of the NSA.

Glen Greenwald writes about General Alexander here:  Inside the Mind of NSA Chief Gen Keith Alexander

What is in his mind?  Does extreme personal desire to have at his disposal all the information about everyone drive him?  How does the nature of this  desire to be described?

Mission Objective?

Personal Greed?

How does the accumulation of all information, all the time on everyone express itself in terms of Greed?

Classic greed is having all the gold in the world.  Still a greedy objective but now it is all the money in the world.  Technically a dumb objective because value of either one is worthless when the objective is accomplished.  It is all fiat money made up out of nothing by banksters now.

Greed.  Wikipedia describes it.

Is General Alexander driven by Information Greed?  Having all of what belongs or pertains to another?  In this strange world of conceptual objects called information the information can still belong to someone but when it is captured by a third party the information still held by the person it is about but it is no longer private.

Capturing the privacy of others is the gold of Intelligence, it takes the power of privacy and puts information and knowledge power in the hands of systems and people that capture the information.

Information Greed.  If the military kills it wants killers.  Motivated killers.  What if the killers kill for the personal pleasure of killing?  Wrong motivation.  Does it happen?

If the military wants information managers in intelligence why not select the manager that has the greatest personal pleasure in collecting information as if it was all theirs.  Nothing wrong with that is there?  Unlike killing for pleasure, it is the sought after trait.

Is General Alexander driven by Information Greed?

Does Information Greed exist?  Not as a googled term.  Nothing.

Information is power.

Greed seeks power.

Maybe the term Information Greed does not exist because it is in the nature of information systems that accumulation of information beyond the extent that it does not serve the objectives of return on investment is not desired.

The government does not work on ROI rules!

Information Greed.

Worth thinking about?

Wikipedia says:

Greed is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.
As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.
The purpose for greed, and any actions associated with it, is possibly to deprive others of potential means (perhaps, of basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities accordingly, or to obstruct them therefrom, as a measure of enhanced discretion via majority belongings-having and majority competitive advantage, thus insidious and tyrannical or otherwise having negative connotation. Alternately, the purpose could be defense or counteraction from such dangerous, potential leverage in matters of questionable agreeability. A consequence of greedy activity may be inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. So, the level of "inordinance" of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it.

Update 21 June 2014:

This link reports that Alexander wants a million a month from Wall Street.  Would settle for 600 thou.

Greed has no bounds when he wants it all.

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