In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
Vlastně, kdykoli to nadnesete v debatě o sledování, lidé to okamžitě zavrhnou jako nepoužitelné, a co řeknou, je: "No, ale v knize 1984 byly monitory v lidských domovech, byli sledováni v jakémkoli daném momentu, a to nemá nic společného se sledováním, kterému čelíme my."