Thesis: One problem Michel Foucault set out to solve was defining and exposing the implicit systems created by power relationships in a social structure.  This paper calls attention to the unseen cultural consciousness that contributes to these power relationships. 

A. A vision of the future created in the present
B. Technology is now the opium of the people

A. Foucault’s idea of the self as a construction of society
B. Self-monitoring as a solution to the problem of social discipline

A. Dr. Steven Leeb’s “Guiding Light”
B. Trends in digital surveillance
C. Social integration of the panopticon affect as a helpful tool

A. Social trends since the Enlightenment 
B. Surveillance as current social trend
      1. Surveillance as safety
      2. Surveillance as “guidance”
      3. Surveillance as benefit
C. Knowledge as Power
D. Resistance and Attention to Reason