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."
実際 監視の議論で この小説を取り上げても 現状には当てはまらないと 簡単に片付けられてしまいます 「『1984年』では 各家庭に監視装置があって どんな時でも 監視されていたけれど それは私達が直面する 監視国家とは全然違う」