{"id":3517,"date":"2021-11-01T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/i-got-a-camera-to-spy-on-my-cat-and-it-made-me-question-everything-about-myself\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T09:36:09","slug":"i-got-a-camera-to-spy-on-my-cat-and-it-made-me-question-everything-about-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/i-got-a-camera-to-spy-on-my-cat-and-it-made-me-question-everything-about-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I got a camera to spy on my cat \u2013 and it made me question everything about myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance \u2013 but what do we lose?<\/p>\n

This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was sick, and I required on-demand proof he was still alive. But the truth is, I just wanted to spy on him. There\u2019s something about a cat sitting by itself on a couch, staring into the middle distance in an empty room, that is inherently funny. What are they thinking? When they slink off camera, where are they going?<\/p>\n

The problem with getting a camera for your pets is that you also inadvertently get a camera for yourself. Years ago, when my ex and I got one for our cat, he once caught me eating Pringles on the couch and sent me a text: \u201cOnce you pop.\u201d The camera, in those moments, was a comical imposition, fulfilling its duty of surveillance in precisely the ways we didn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

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\nWe document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance \u2013 but what do we lose?
\nThis summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was sick, and I required on-demand proof he was still alive. But the truth is, I just wanted to spy on him. There\u2019s something about a cat sitting by itself on a couch, staring into the middle distance in an empty room, that is inherently funny. What are they thinking? When they slink off camera, where are they going?
\nThe problem with getting a camera for your pets is that you also inadvertently get a camera for yourself. Years ago, when my ex and I got one for our cat, he once caught me eating Pringles on the couch and sent me a text: \u201cOnce you pop.\u201d The camera, in those moments, was a comical imposition, fulfilling its duty of surveillance in precisely the ways we didn\u2019t want. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance \u2013 but what do we lose? This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was sick, and I required on-demand proof he was still alive. …<\/p>\n

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