Because it’s a fucking* book.
George Orwell was an author not a fucking* time traveller. Please for the love of god and my sanity stop comparing the increase in CCTV cameras to a work of fiction.
There’s a much longer post here about how there are a number of people who are almost wishing the premise of 1984 to come true. They see it in everyday things like talking CCTV in Middlesbrough (actually very successful) and speed cameras. I’ve no doubt that there’s a dialogue to be had and a balance to be struck but there’s a seemingly endless stream of people who cite the work as an inevitability should ‘things continue the way they are’. Bollocks. Just because some geezer wrote a decent book doesn’t make it true.
* An apology. My language has really taken a turn for the worse. I used to have such medium-height standards but they’ve sunk very low lately. Kids, it’s not big and it’s not clever.
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