Orwell summed up the psychological effect of total surveillance with Winston's insightful diary entry: "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is dea

Orwell summed up the psychological effect of total surveillance with Winston's insightful diary entry: "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death" It starts with outward self-censorship and ends with the internal... "He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions —'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water'— and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them." - Chapter 4.