[KarlInOhio]

The Police State - oops, I mean Deep State - tapes all of us all the time. They only listen if they ‘need’ to... and if they want to entertain themselves or damage a political opponent.

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

[GOPJ]

Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink.