In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
Zapravo, kada god ga spomenete u debati o nadzoru, ljudi ga istog trenutka odbace kao neprimjenjivog, i kažu, ''Oh, pa u '1984-toj' ljudi su  imali monitore u kućama, bili su promatrani u kojem god trenutku, i to nema nikakve veze s nadzirućom  državom s kojom se mi susrećemo.''