Is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead a parralelquel?
Has anyone written a parralelquel about a guy who monitors the 2-way TV's in 1984? He probably works in a cubicle among many. His life is probably not too different from Winston Smith's. My guess is there are folks now with similar jobs in nursing homes or prisons.
They must have some rules as to what kind of activity to report. Probably lists of boring rules, with jargon. I bet there's official jargon, for reporting activity, and slang that the monitors use for joking about the people they're forced to watch all day and night long. I mean the 1984 folks, particularly, but I imagine it exists to some extent in real life.
I remember a high-tech day care center that would give parents a secure URL/Web address so they could watch their kid from their PC at work. It is a reassuring feature for guilty/worried/lonesome parents. But with some disturbing implications.
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Of course...."Brazil"
ReplyDeleteWhile not in the 1984 universe, it is definitely a repressive dystopia. Also while the main character is not directly a part of the torture arm of the government, he is part of the army of bean counters and paper pushers that such an operation always needs.