"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

This exert describes how almost every thing one did was captured by the all seeing eyes of the thought police. Every movement, every simple gesture would be examined to make sure that one was completely in tune with the ruling society. I find that at first glance this society seems completely different from todays, but there are some parallels. For instance, in many larger cities cameras are set up on highways that automatically give tickets to speeders. Although the cameras have good intend to uphold a just law, I can't help but see the relation between these cameras and the cameras of the thought police.