Comment Re:Objecting To the Use of "Big Brother" (Score 1) 212
I think the main difference between our and Orwell's fictious society is the lack of fear before the goverment.
We know we're being watched, but most people don't care, and those who do are soon enough identified by the society as paranoid or asocial or criminal or perverts and if nothing of those fits, they are ignored because they're just annoying.
They won't stop the surveilance from creeping into public buildings, public transport, on public places and streets. Much less the great rest of the people, who feel protected by the watchful eyes.
So how long until we accept that terrorism is no longer a threat to us, and that things such a swine-flue are just a temporary mass hysteria, that the real threat to our society comes from within:
Wife-beaters, child-molesters, meth-cooks, illicit workers, propagandists. Every apartment needs at surveilance cameras.
