Most people dont fully realize (for now) how many cameras are around them. Theyre generally well hidden but its at absurd levels. Tvs, laptops, cell phones, cctv, light poles, roaming drones, cars, dash cams, bodu cams, door bells, etc etc. And thats only the optical cameras. Most people have smart meters and things like google nest in their home which use echolocation to map every square inch in your household.
The point of the panopticon however is not constant surveillance. Its the constant thought that you are constantly being watched with no way of knowing if you actually are. The panopticon is already here to extent....but it has yet to be fully actualized due to the lack of "consequences" for participating in normal everyday activities (i have nothing to hide therefore attitude). This is where the lockdowns and health mandates start coming into play. All of a sudden things like thanksgiving dinner become illegal and society arrests itself.
The surveillance paranoia will no doubt be ramped up here soon. In a lot of ways, covid was a pre cursor to this.....a normalization of fear of something you cant see but are constantly reminded of everywhere you go. Replace the masks with cameras and youll get the gist of whats going on from the panopticon side if the equation.
Read this chapter from Foucault - where a plague in the late 1600s was used as a means for control: https://libcom.org/files/michel-foucault-panopticism.pdf
Reads like a blueprint.
Most people dont fully realize (for now) how many cameras are around them. Theyre generally well hidden but its at absurd levels. Tvs, laptops, cell phones, cctv, light poles, roaming drones, cars, dash cams, bodu cams, door bells, etc etc. And thats only the optical cameras. Most people have smart meters and things like google nest in their home which use echolocation to map every square inch in your household.
The point of the panopticon however is not constant surveillance. Its the constant thought that you are constantly being watched with no way of knowing if you actually are. The panopticon is already here to extent....but it has yet to be fully actualized due to the lack of "consequences" for participating in normal everyday activities (i have nothing to hide therefore attitude). This is where the lockdowns and health mandates start coming into play. All of a sudden things like thanksgiving dinner become illegal and society arrests itself.
The surveillance paranoia will no doubt be ramped up here soon. In a lot of ways, covid was a pre cursor to this.....a normalization of fear of something you cant see but are constantly reminded of everywhere you go. Replace the masks with cameras and youll get the gist of whats going on from the panopticon side if the equation.