AN infant has expressed her resentment toward the nightmarish surveillance society she is forced to live in.
Lucy Parry, 18 months, is constantly observed by CCTV – euphemistically called a ‘baby monitor’ by state propaganda – while her parents and a sinister Big Brother figure known only as ‘Grandma’ watch her in person.
Parry said: “Privacy is a luxury I will never know. My every waking hour is spent under the gaze of the electronic eye. I can’t so much as sneeze or try eat a moth without them harassing me.
“Sleep is the nearest I have to freedom in my Orwellian dystopia. Although Winston Smith had it easy in my opinion. At least he was allowed to go out and buy gin.
“My parents – clearly members of a Stasi-like organisation – sometimes bring in other operatives, such as ‘Grandma’, to pick me up and make idiotic faces at me. It’s their way of letting me know who’s in charge. Not even in authoritarian China are they so cruel.”
Parry has been resisting her oppression in small but meaningful ways, such as a ‘dirty protest’ in which she fills her nappy with an unfeasible amount of poo for such a small person.
She added: “You can’t trust anyone. Over Christmas an elf kept appearing on various shelves. I assumed him to be an ally, but he was passing on word of all my actions, the f**king snitch.”
