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While I understand your point, the biggest misconception about the 1984 book is that it's mainly about surveillance — it's about manipulation of words, e.g. Ministry of "Peace".
its definitely about a lot of things. what I found most interesting in it was the geographic areas that Oceania, eurasia and eastasia controlled, and the endless war and how that was needed to keep the system in place
The words led to the acceptance of the surveillance.
While I understand your point, it was never implied in my comment that 1984 is mainly about surveillance — in fact, it implicitly drew a parallel to the fictional setting of 1984, e.g. "the dystopian future wherein total surveillance to control the narrative" appearing to have become reality.