this is what our Home Secretary—the office in charge of the police and MI5 and the justice system—wants to impose on us. This is her dream society.
https://x.com/admcollingwood/status/2013353303191474187
For those who do not know, the 'Panopticon' was a plan for a 'perfect' prison. The cells were arranged in a multistory disc around a central guard tower. Because the guards would have a complete view into any of the cells at any time, but the guards in the tower could not be observed from the cells, the inmates would have no idea if they are being viewed or not, but know they could be at any time. Therefore, the theory went, they would be forced to act as though they were being viewed.
Ultimately, the psychological effects of such living were considered too cruel for even prisoners to endure, and such a custodial facility was never built. Many indeed consider the entire concept of the Panopticon the foundation of the theory of totalitarian regimes in operation: if it could seek to arrange society so they every citizen may be watched at any time but cannot know whether they are being watched or not (e.g. the telescreens in Nineteen Eighty-Four's Oceania) a regime could force all citizens to act as though they were being watched at any given time.
And this is what our Home Secretary—the office in charge of the police and MI5 and the justice system—wants to impose on us. This is her dream society. Not even joking or embellishing.
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