Perhaps that makes it even more terrifying though; a society with Orwellian capabilities (surveillance, spying, death and imprisonment) but without that singula

Perhaps that makes it even more terrifying though; a society with Orwellian capabilities (surveillance, spying, death and imprisonment) but without that singularity of vision or execution? These capabilities in the hands of people who frankly don't deserve to be within an ocean's width of power is what I fear, not the society as depicted in 1984 itself.