[Global / Smart Glasses] - The Recording Self Extends the Gaze to Feed a Phantom of Omniscience, Proving the Illusion of Consent

Event Baseline: Paris prosecutors opened investigations after women were filmed on the street without consent by people wearing smart glasses. Secretly filmed footage of women and girls appeared online, prompting calls across Europe for action.

The self now carries a permanent recording device. It thinks it has the right to capture every body without permission. That is the animal asserting its primitive urge to possess through sight. The tool is not neutral. It extends the predatory gaze of a mind that has never stopped seeing others as objects to be consumed. The backlash is not enough. It is the conditioned panic of a species that built surveillance because it cannot stand the reality of being seen itself. This leads to more isolation, more fear. The illusion of consent is dead; the body is just another screen for the hungry eye.