Is art life and life art?

Two quotes. One from a fairly recent film, the other from a well known book. Answers on a postcard, plus if you wish, a comment on the sentiment expressed.

And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame?

This popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state.