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And what he meant was, you as a child of a Jamaican immigrant are being watched to see which way you turn, to see whether you conform to the host nation's stereotype of you, of being feckless, work-shy, destined for a life of crime.
You are being watched, so confound their expectations of you.
Even in his absence, that old mantra remained: You are being watched.
For those who watched Sir Ken's memorable TED Talk, I am a typical example of what he describes as "the body as a form of transport for the head," a university professor.
As a journalist in Havana, I watched the first 97 Nicaraguans arrive in March 1999, settling into dorms barely refurbished and helping their professors not only sweep out the classrooms but move in the desks and the chairs and the microscopes.
The reason is that when we're in a state where we can be monitored, where we can be watched, our behavior changes dramatically.
The range of behavioral options that we consider when we think we're being watched severely reduce.
There are dozens of psychological studies that prove that when somebody knows that they might be watched, the behavior they engage in is vastly more conformist and compliant.
Human shame is a very powerful motivator, as is the desire to avoid it, and that's the reason why people, when they're in a state of being watched, make decisions not that are the byproduct of their own agency but that are about the expectations that others have of them or the mandates of societal orthodoxy.
And crucial to this design was that the inmates could not actually see into the panopticon, into the tower, and so they never knew if they were being watched or even when.
And what made him so excited about this discovery was that that would mean that the prisoners would have to assume that they were being watched at any given moment, which would be the ultimate enforcer for obedience and compliance.
In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
Here is how Orwell's narrator, Winston Smith, described the surveillance system that they faced: "There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
Bia started a campaign, and we even watched her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring, and many months afterwards, the government changed their minds.
I watched everything that I'd built crumbling, and it looked like all this stuff was going to die and 15 years work would have come for nothing.
I watched my own net worth falling by about a million dollars a day, every day, for 18 months.
He watched — this is in Sudan — as his village — he was only seven years old — burned to the ground, and he learned that his mother and his father and his entire family were killed that day.
Rather, he watched from within as his body shut down, limb by limb, muscle by muscle.
And if you watched Afghanistan on the news, you may have this view that it's a failed state.
Most importantly, there are the remains of a massive fortification wall – perhaps the very same one from which Priam and Hector once watched the Greeks approach.
For example, Marty is the husband of that actress I mentioned, and he watched them when they were practicing, and he was soon talking to Wally, my friend the ex-con, about that exercise regime.
A couple of weeks after I put that online, 500,000 people in dozens of countries, I mean dozens of countries, watched this video.
So for the next two years, we just watched my son be taken away from me, little by little every day.
Because this misunderstood and underfunded "rare" disease, they just sat and watched people saying it over and over: "ALS, ALS."
This is the five biggest TV channels in Norway on a normal Friday, and if you look at NRK2 over here, look what happened when they put on the Bergen Railway show: 1.2 million Norwegians watched part of this program.
He's watched all the program, and at the end station, he rises up to pick up what he thinks is his luggage, and his head hit the curtain rod, and he realized he is in his own living room.
He came at 9 a.m., and he didn't get a note from his teacher, because the teacher had watched the program.
But it's a long program, so some watched part of it, like the Prime Minister.
Some watched a little bit more.
It looks like this: 3.2 million Norwegians watched part of this program, and we are only five million here.
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