Mass surveillance, something George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, predicted – is now a matter of fact in American life. How could George Orwell’s novel about the suppression of democracy come to life in America? Did something on earth help create the idea for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four? Listen to this: Purported origins […]In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett’s, current during World War II. The original posters showed J. M. Bennett himself; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase “Let me be your father” attached. After Bennett’s death, his son took over the company, and the posters were replaced with pictures of the son (who looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father’s kindly demeanour) with the text “Let me be your big brother.” Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life under totalitarianism.[1][2][…] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28Nineteen_Eighty-Four%29 Did Joseph Stalin help put “Nineteen Eighty-Four” in the mind of George Orwell? How does George W. Bush relate to what the novel referred to as BIG BROTHER? Orwell picked 1984. The neocons came four years before that – 1980. He didn’t miss it by much – did he? joejolly.wordpress/2013/07/21/mass-surveillance-george-orwell-and-the-neocons/
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