For an Outer Party member, the constant babble of the telescreen is something that cannot be stopped, so this is an enormous privilege
Orwell did not foresee that people would demand to have the telescreen on all the time, and that instead of Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein, the propaganda would be sitcoms and Netflix.
33 posted on 12/18/2023 9:34:55 AM PST by Jim Noble
(The future belongs to those who show up)