As occupants of a first world country, many of us don’t worry about this year's crop harvest in the sense that there will be enough food to survive to the next day. Instead, we worry if our hand grown, organic tomatoes, will cost $5.00 this year instead of $4.50. In a similar sense, some of us even worry about how many likes our, “just woke up” selfie will receive on Instagram. Technology has allowed our desires and worries to pass basic survival and move onto more trivial matters. But, when the government stunts the growth of technology, and strip the common man of many technological advancements, their desires and worries will once again degrade to their basic needs. Therefore, by degrading a citizen to their basic needs, the government is able to invade a citizen’s personal life with propaganda and surveillance.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, citizens are under constant surveillance by