“Democracy Dies in Darkness” (the official slogan of The Washington Post) extols transparency, yet Orwell’s 1984 inverts this: tyranny thrives in light too—surveillance, confession, and control are bathed in brightness. (The Ministry of Love is a well-lit torture chamber.)
The absence of secrecy defines the political structure: complete transparency leaves man with no inner life, no privacy.
Light as revelation becomes a double-edged sword; it liberates or annihilates, depending on who controls the switch.