Track 23

Unit 8

Political science

Big brother and the surveillance society

Page 78

Talk about the topic

Parts A and B

so the surveillance lecture was pretty controversial half galaxy set at the end that’s a sobering thought wouldn’t you say or I don’t think any of us would disagree with her and she said not all surveillances for own good right now but I have a question she says something like Orwellian what is Orwellian yeah she’s talked about George Orwell he wrote a book called 1984 it’s about the surveillance society in that book they coined the expression big brother is watching yeah but I don’t think it’s not bad to see anything she’s exaggerating a little bit I don’t think that big brother is watching over us all the time okay maybe not all the time but I need you to be some sort of women to revisit really all her own good or for her safety well like whatever the subway at night and I know that is a video camera on the train I feel safer so for me I mean it’s fine with me will of course some of it is useful but a lot of it is intrusive like the traffic cameras the fee to the Internet site many of them can look into people’s home you can see everything while so like everything about you can instantly be on the Internet yes wow that is totally wrong so in general we all agree that some surveillance is necessary but not all surveillances good cell in Russia more or less okay so can we say that we are on the same page for this okay what’s next