Being watched all the time changes people. You stop taking risks, stop speaking honestly, stop doing things just because you want to. That’s what constant surveillance does, it shrinks life. this is "surveillance culture"

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I wonder if those ‘big brother’ realities were just an experiment

kind if male-coded of you to assume it's gender

They want an impotent submissive people. We're propagandized into believing they'll do this with a vulgar display of physical or political power. Not so. It's the silent power they hold with surveillance that's so oppressive.

they try to control the rules and the overton window and nudge people into compliance.

This might be why North Koreans can't fix their country. Their spirit was killed by the surveillance.

scary thought