What is the role of the individual within Orwell's vision of the future in 1984?

The power of Big Brother is one where the individual has
little power.  The status of the individual is dwarfed in comparison to the absolute
control of the state.  In this conception of the future, the notion of individual rights
and checks against the power of the government are gone.  In its place is a form of
political conditioning to ensure that there is a complete consolidation of power over
the lives of the individuals that compose it.  This reality is facilitated by government
run technology that is able to ensure there is no private resistance of any kind and one
that is able to control through one's fears.  In Orwell's vision, there is no chance of
the state losing its control over the lives of the citizens because there is no way that
individuals are able to mount a campaign of resistance because of the state having total
control over all aspects of individual consciousness.