Big Brother- The Orwellian Nightmare Come True

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Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True

Mark Dice

Infowars.com

March 4, 2011

When George Orwell (pen name of Eric Blair) first published his famous novel,

Nineteen Eighty-Four, it was the year 1949, and it told a dark story of what he

envisioned life may be like in the future-in the year 1984. His book, as well as his name,

have become synonymous with privacy concerns involving technology and also an all-

powerful, oppressive ruling elite that strictly governs the activities of the population

with an iron fist.lls book is where we get the term Big Brother from, such as when people say Big

Brother is watching you. When people say this, theyre referring to the omniscient

surveillance system described in the novel that continuously watched and listened to

people-even in their own homes. When we call something Orwellian to describe the

invasiveness of certain technology or government policies, we are also referring to

George Orwells nightmarish vision he described in his novel. There are several other

terms that Orwell himself coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four, such as doublethink,

thoughtcrime, and memory hole, which have also become part of our vernacular.

Even if you have not read the book or seen the film, you are still undoubtedly familiar

with the issues that make up the storyline, such as the high-tech surveillance system

watching and listening to everyone in order to keep them in line with the government

(called the Party in the novel). You are probably also familiar with the concept of a

small elite ruling class (what Orwell calls the Inner Party) living in luxury and wielding

unimaginable power over lower level citizens. In the novel, people have lost their

freedom, their critical thinking skills, and even the ability to love due to the cultural

depths society has sunk to as a result of Big Brothers control. The reason Nineteen

Eighty-Four remains so popular, and the reason society has adopted vocabulary from

the book, is because it serves as more than merely a fictional novel for the readers

entertainment. The novel served (and continues to serve) as a stark warning of what the

future may hold if we dont resist invasive technology and oppressive government

policies, or if the population at large becomes so lost in a world of pop culture, sports

entertainment, or our own selfish desires, that we simply dont care. My new non-

fiction book,Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True, looks at technology


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that now exists or is under development and will exist in the near future, that threatens

to make our world just as horrific or even worse than the world George Orwell

described. I have assembled information from mainstream news sources, industry

experts, and even patent numbers of the most invasive and sinister Orwellian devices

anyone could dream of. We will also look at actual government programs and policies

that seem as if they came right out of Orwells dark imagination, such as the

government secretly paying mainstream media reporters to act as gate-keepers and

propagandists for the establishment, and the FBI illegally spying on and smearing

peaceful political activists who were seen as problematic.

I am certainly not anti-technology. Technology is a fantastic tool which can benefit

those who use it, or harm them, depending on the intentions of the person designing it

or using it. Technology has brought us amazing inventions that would seemsupernatural to civilizations that lived just a few hundred years ago. Arthur C. Clark, the

author of 2001 a Space Odyssey, was correct when he said, Any sufficiently advanced

technology is indistinguishable from magic. While this magical technology has

brought us the convenience of calling our friends or family on our cell phones, allowing

us to talk with them from virtually anywhere in the world, and given us the ability to

watch events on the other side of the earth unfold live on television, and other wonders

such as the Internet, DVR recorders, YouTube, Excel spread sheets, word processors, e-

mail, Facebook, and more; it has also brought us identity theft, illegal wiretaps, Peeping

Toms using hidden video cameras, cyber stalkers, and worse. If you have ever left your

cell phone at home when youve left the house for the day, youve realized how much

we depend on technology for what have become common and necessary activities. If

youve ever been at home when the electricity unexpectedly goes out, you have also

realized how much we take for granted in our modern world.

Unfortunately, with tremendous advances in technology often come unforeseen

consequences. Nobody could have envisioned young teenage girls taking nude photos

of themselves with their cell phone cameras and sending them to their boyfriends, and

then having the boyfriends forward them to others, eventually ending up on the cell

phone of someone over the age of eighteen, resulting in what is essentially child

pornography in their possession. The music and film industries certainly didnt

anticipate millions of Internet users downloading music and movies for free, sometimes

before the products are even officially released. And when Albert Einstein was

searching for the laws of physics to learn how our Universe functioned, he could have

never imagined that his work would be used to design weapons capable of destroying


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the entire earth. It seems that the dark minds of men in power always strive to build

sinister devices designed to enable them to hold onto their power, no matter how

disastrous the consequences.

some of the sinister inventions currently in operation, as well as the ones on the drawing

boards, and the ones mad scientists are hoping to one day create. Facial recognition

video cameras that can pick you out of a crowd of tens of thousands of people in a split

second, machines that can read your mind, high-tech killer-robots, psychotronic

weapons that can literally put voices in peoples heads, and more. You will see beyond

a doubt that George Orwells description of Big Brother was chillingly accurate, and

perhaps not as horrific as the reality we may one day face. Like a Pandoras Box, once

much of this technology is created, there will be little hope of stopping it or even

regulating it.If one reads old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1950s, one can realize how

wrong, and even silly, the techno-utopian dreamers were in the past. Many were led to

believe that by the twenty-first century we would all be living lives of luxury like the

Jetsons, with large blocks of free time to enjoy ourselves as we had most manual labor

and menial tasks taken care of by robots and computers. Yet more than a decade into the

twenty-first century, we still need to spend time cooking and cleaning, and commuting

to work and raising the kids, and fixing up the house and countless other tasks and

obligations that are required of us in our daily lives. Our cars must still continuously be

maintained, the oil needs to be changed, the engine serviced, the tires rotated and

replaced, and the average vehicle now costs as much as a house did for people just two

generations ago. The grass still needs to be cut, the bushes need to be trimmed, and

things around the house continue to break and need to be fixed or replaced. People are

working longer hours, having less time with their families, having to retire later in life,

and are having less savings than past generations. Where is this techno-utopia that so

many had promised would come in the near future?

Instead of living lives of luxury and leisure, now many people cant escape their job

even after they leave the office. Where once we left work and were outside of the reach

of our boss, now he or she can call us on our cell phone at anytime, day or night, and

expects a promptly returned phone call or e-mail.

People are being turned into numbers and statistics, and mathematical formulas are used

by employers to determine whether an employee is being efficient enough. Its difficult

to get a person on the phone when calling a companys customer service department,


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