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insomniasexx · 4173 days ago · link · · parent · post: Laurie Penny: If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head
This is the issue. They aren't going to directly control our movements, our actions, our shit. We're still going to believe we have choices. But over time, step by step, they will place little tinges of fear that don't even seem like fear to the point where everyone complies and doesn't step out. But in a way where we don't even realize we are doing so. 1984.It’s not that Londoners are afraid. Not quite. It’s that in the world’s most surveillance-heavy metropolis... it usually doesn’t occur to us to be anything other than compliant.
It’s far less trouble to modify your behaviour so you don’t ever say anything that might give the wrong impression. It’s easier, in short, to behave.