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> There wasn't really a "panopticon gaze of Big Brother" - only the Outer Party were heavily monitored as these were the only people who could be a threat to th
by KineticLensman 5y ago
> There wasn't really a "panopticon gaze of Big Brother" - only the Outer Party were heavily monitored as these were the only people who could be a threat to the Inner Party.
Okay, it might not have been a total panopticon (my poor wording), but Big Brother seems not to have had the massive blind-spots that Sauron did.
- adamc 5y agoIn fiction, perhaps. But I think Tolkien was closer to the mark. In practice, it is very difficult to know everything, even if the information is available, because of the limitations on our attention and imagination. Tolkien clearly describes that as a limitation of Sauron, and I think it remains a limitation, even today, even when all the facts are available.