Posts Tagged ‘George Orwell’

11th August
2009
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site is popular and charge for advertising, when in fact all that you have is a large number of visitors. This is disingenuous!” she fumed.   (more…)

21st March
2009
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

Googling “Big Brother” returns 43,500,000 results but Googling “big brother” Orwell removes all but 623,000 results. 

Big Brother is a character in George Orwell‘s novel 1984 (aka Ninety Eighty Four.)  Published a year before Orwell’s death in 1949, the book has a clear doom-and-gloom (dystopic) view of future society. Orwell perceived a future in which the world is divided into three areas: Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania – which includes the United Kingdom (renamed Airstrip One.)  Under the 24/7/365 watchful eye of a ruling technocracy (known simply as The Party), people’s every move and every thought is watched, scrutinised and diarised.  The Party is led by the know-all, see-all master of all Oceanians’ destiny – known only as Big Brother. (more…)