And what he said was that this mindset, this framework discovered by Bentham, was the key means of societal control for modern, Western societies, which no longer need the overt weapons of tyranny — punishing or imprisoning or killing dissidents, or legally compelling loyalty to a particular party — because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be.
Rekao je da taj način razmišljanja, taj okvir kojeg je otkrio Bentham, predstavlja ključan način društvene kontrole u modernim društvima Zapada koja više nisu trebala otvorena oružja tiranije — kažnjavanje ili zatvaranje  ili ubijanje disidenata, ili pravno obvezivanje  na odanost određenoj stranci — jer je masovni nadzor stvorio zatvor u umu, daleko suptilniji ali daleko učinkovitiji način ostvarivanja usklađenosti  s društvenim normama ili društvenim pravovjerjem, daleko učinkovitiji no što bi gola sila ikada mogla biti.