The panopticon is a model of authoritarian society. I think the fiction referenced in this song would be the works of Orwell, and Huxley, and Atwood of all those who foresaw dystopia in our future.
We would like to think that these stories are just that - fiction. The bones of the dead are only in our imaginations, not in the streets.
But our world is steadily progressing towards a workable facsimile of one of these stories. Go through your day and count up how many cameras get a look at you. Think about the concept of DNA registration that very nearly became a reality in Great Britain, largely through misinformation and the sheer apathy of voters. There's nowhere to hide. What was foreseen in tales of fiction is nowadays not so hard to imagine as a real future.
The panopticon is a model of authoritarian society. I think the fiction referenced in this song would be the works of Orwell, and Huxley, and Atwood of all those who foresaw dystopia in our future.
We would like to think that these stories are just that - fiction. The bones of the dead are only in our imaginations, not in the streets.
But our world is steadily progressing towards a workable facsimile of one of these stories. Go through your day and count up how many cameras get a look at you. Think about the concept of DNA registration that very nearly became a reality in Great Britain, largely through misinformation and the sheer apathy of voters. There's nowhere to hide. What was foreseen in tales of fiction is nowadays not so hard to imagine as a real future.
@Aranneas great insight and an interesting take, thanks for sharing
@Aranneas great insight and an interesting take, thanks for sharing