I am the eye in the sky

Looking at you

I can read your mind

I am the maker of rules

THERE’s nothing arrogant in the song by The Alan Parsons Project; the words are uttered sadly. But to be “the eye in the sky”—constantly looking at us and reading our mind—is to be a frightening force. In various cruel stories, human political history records the combination of the words “to see—to know—to contro