You are certainly a match for Fear and Trembling. Instead, the Soviet Union went, China is changing, Cuba is crumbling. The witch is dead. But essences of it keep trying to slip in the back door, like snippets of genetic code from one organism inserted into another to make the host exude some secretion characteristic of the donor. They saturated the proletarian masses with propaganda.
TVs are inescapable.
And snooping gadgets proliferate. Yet they are literally explained away by calling them security cameras and citing the need to capture criminals on film. But most of the time these lenses are just a Peeping Tom on ordinary folks going about their ordinary activities. This caused indignant outcries when such cameras started appearing in stores, office buildings, schools, and streets years ago. Now they are accepted as a normal fixture of life.