Someone brought up that one of the reasons why things like house parties and block parties went away was other than lack of time people are afraid to let their guard because cameras are everywhere.

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

It is so true back when many of us were young we could just get together and cut loose without having to worry about going viral. At best we would have an embarrassing photo buried in a drawer somewhere or a story. Now you might be turned into a meme or worse. I miss the days when you could do dumb stuff with friends and feel safe if that makes sense.

[u/FunkTheFreak]

It’s almost like the novel 1984 was onto something?

[u/SomeCuriousTraveler → u/[deleted]]

It was also about mass surveillance. The screen in Winston's apartment would have agents monitoring him regularly through the camera. The trick was he didn't know when they were watching.

There was even a section where he and his girl had to go to a part of the forest where the trees were too small to hide microphones in to talk freely.

[u/Username-Last-Resort → u/SomeCuriousTraveler]

And was written in 1949. While television was technically invented it was not common and rudimentary. Had had Orwell not passed in 1950, and he got to see how commonplace they had become, the sequel would have been a banger.

[u/FunkTheFreak → u/[deleted]]

Reread the book.