It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence.
In the Soviet period, punitive psychiatry was so widespread that one fourth of the dissidents accused of political crimes were declared "mentally ill." Even more widespread was the practice of compulsory hospitalization without court order, done simply on the orders of the KGB. Each year the highest authorities in Moscow sent up to 1,000 people to psychiatric hospitals. These were people who had come to capital to fight for justice denied in their hometowns. The same situation could be observed in the provinces.https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/10/13/soviet-psychiatry-...
Since 1921, the Soviet authorities began to gradually use psychiatry to combat dissidents and human rights defenders. They abused their powers, falsifying diagnoses of unwanted people and sending them to hospitals for an indefinite period. This practice has become known as "punitive psychiatry", becoming one of the most famous and brutal examples of repression in the USSR. Over the years, Joseph Brodsky and Yegor Letov became its victims, and the practice stopped only under the decline of the USSR, when up to two million people passed through it.https://tjournal.ru/stories/153921-karatelnoe-lechenie-inako...
That is just Google translated above
I've read this to the end. This makes North Korea or the actual 1984 look like a failure.
Edit: oh, look. Downvoted without so much as a comment about the reason why. This seems to be happening here more and more frequently on this site. Luckily I can leave this site, unlike the unlucky Elan kids. I wanted to delete my account for a while, but whoever downvoted this just sealed my decision. Thank you for that. Peace out.
An art therapy project done by a man who as a teenager found himself in a "tough love" "school"(heavy quotes in both cases) as an alternative to juvie after he was caught with a month's worth of hashish.
Long story short prison would have been more humane.
EDIT: Reading this made me physically ill. It's the embodiment of my worst fears.
Obviously the problem is having screens detect a list of things every human around can easily detect too, not what happens after that, yep.
(I'm not saying there's no issue here, I'm saying this is a useless comparison.)
Edit: As far as I'm concerned, quoting that is about as useful as mentioning number of the beast in relation to bar codes or credit cards. It almost but doesn't actually fit the situation.
I am reminded of one of the Trump rallies the other year. There was a fellow in a plaid shirt who was ejected and detained by the SS for not manifesting suitably ecstatic facial expressions.
