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."
사실 감시에 대한 논쟁에서 그 얘기를 하면 사람들은 곧바로 적용할 수 없다고 묵살해버리죠. "아, '1984년'에는 집집마다 모니터가 있어서 매순간 감시당했지만 그건 우리가 직면한 감시 국가와 아무런 상관이 없어."