Even at work your under a constant state of surveillance your superiors are always watching over you to make sure your producing the correct specification to your job role. Although some people don’t believe it your boss will be constantly watching you even if their not in the same room. For example even while I am writing this post my boss can see I am on this site because of the constant surveillance of the internet usage. Quite annoying really because they have this very odd rile about internet usage and if it gets out of control you could be fired. Such an odd form of power considering I am a call centre monkey and sometimes it gets boring and quiet, what else am I meant to do?! Even our system of leisure and work eventually gets rules over by your boss. Although you have the money to spend you don’t have the leisure time to spend it in. employers are constantly striving to have a society that would always want to work without any real social time. Even the people that we see out side of the office are controlled by the position that you hold in the office. The people that you sit or work with could some day become a out-of-office friend.
When you look at the surveillance in that form you see that the power it provides members of the law enforcement i.e. police. Even gives power to celebrities in magazines, without realising they hold a power over youngsters bodies and describe a way everyone should look. It s a bit like the bloody size 0 thing and how all young ladies should look and be as skinny as all the size 0 models that surround us. Without realising it your constantly pressured to have the prefect body even though it’s a quite ugly size 0. as soon as you look at an idealised body of a celebrity you will constantly compare yourself to that look.
However its not only the human body that’s constantly under scrutiny and surveillance, its also our environment and the place that we live. We rarely have any power over what really happens to out local areas or even our own property (even though they like to think we do). Never have we been able to extend our own property without the permission of the state planning offices. But there it is again, the STATE! The state owns out property as much as it owns our body. Like if we die under odd circumstances the state wont let your family have your body until a full autopsy has been carried out. With is really quite unfair because if you die, I feel, your body is your families to put to rest.
In religion, no matter which one you follow, you believe you are constantly under surveillance by the god you worship. It works to keep you to the rules because you wouldn’t fear to be sent to hell or what ever if you stepped out of line. “THE LORD SEES ALL”.
Technology is mainly to blame for the advances in surveillance as new technologies give us new ways to look at things. Although its become part of our everyday life and many people cant remember how they ever lived without it. There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in total around the UK. Which makes any self respected person act in the correct way because you don’t want to take that risk if your being watched.