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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to Worldbuilding! Good job on this answer, +1. My question is, would an early society be able to use constant surveillance, in a world before cameras, GPS, and microphones? I think it would be difficult to monitor everything people are doing without electronics. $\endgroup$
    – John Locke
    Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 18:15
  • $\begingroup$ Constant surveillance is like perfect security, it never can happen. Humanity will out. Humans are not born dogma affected sheeple, nurture forced comply with the accepted dogma reality, which is never actuality. $\endgroup$
    – user22501
    Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 3:39
  • $\begingroup$ So you are saying 1984 will never happen to the level where surveillance is constant? I would tend to disagree, regimes already force people to comply, and a lot of human history has involved forcing people to do stuff against their will. Humans don't have to know about the surveillance anyway. In 1984 people might think that the telescreens were recording them, but there was never any proof. People aren't going to revolt against surveillance they don't know about. $\endgroup$
    – John Locke
    Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 11:37