School was always so boring to me and every time I questioned the teacher I was dismissed. School was not about making us smarter and independent thinkers. It was about making us unquestioning drones ready to punch the time clock and never question the status quo for the next 50+ years of our lifes.

Dystopian inferno

Rube Goldberg's invisible machine.

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.”