I read Brave New World a long time ago, but my memory of it does not include widespread surveillance; I am not sure it really fits this story well. Neither does 1984, of course; the leaker in this case is relatively low in the hierarchy of the government, and he is well-paid and lives in a beautiful place.

If anything, Minority Report is what we should send. The entire purpose of this program is to find terrorists before they commit their crimes. The surveillance is widespread (as it is in Minority Report). People live comfortable lives until they become targets, and becoming a target occurs without warning and can happen to anyone.

I think this will be the deciding moment whether it's 1984 or Brave New World. If Americans don't rise up in the streets and do something to change this, then I guess we'll have our answer, and I'd say that's a lot scarier than if it was 1984, because at least then there would be a slight glimmer of hope for overturning the government and changing things. But if it's Brave New World, then no one cares how authoritarian the country's leaders become and how much they abuse their power.

I'd say it's neither. Much of the power of the 1984 picture is the totalitarian state where everyone is afraid all the time, and that is not the image we have now.

But much of the picture in Brave New World is that there is no real need for hard repression as people simply don't rebel and are happy with their comfy lives.

The reality here would seems kind of in between (people mostly don't care _and_ the state is more scary).

At this moment, it seems a lot more like "Brazil" to me.

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