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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • That was literally the main point in 1984. The mass-surveillance wasn’t literal, but meant to be implied by the despotic authority of “Big Brother”. In reality people were encouraged to tell on each other. A neighbor of the main character meets him while he’s incarcerated at the end of the book, sent to prison because his own children told on him about how he talked in his sleep… and he was proud of them for it.