Acceptance of surveillance parallels acceptance of war in earlier societies. People generally believed that war is bad, but also necessary, and there is no way

Acceptance of surveillance parallels acceptance of war in earlier societies. People generally believed that war is bad, but also necessary, and there is no way to go without it. But the example of war also shows how wrong that belief might be. In the same way, the surveillance might not be a technological inevitability, just like war isn't.