BIG BROTHER IS COMMONLY REFERENCED

The whole idea of big brother is commonly referenced in all forms of media whether we notice or not. Whether you're a music junkie, a TV addict, or a video game enthusiast there are ideas of 1984 commonly derived and implemented into whatever your pleasure may be.

For example, each decade that goes by there are more and more movies that are in direct relation. The show "Big Brother" is as blatant as it gets with that name, all the guests on the show are under constant surveillance. Below is a clip from a more recent movie reference, in the actual movie a reporter actually says that "big brother is watching"

In the world of gaming believe it or not BIG BROTHER IS STILL WATCHING... in one of the early releases of Call of duty (modern warfare 2) there is a direct reference if you completed the "no secrets" challenge..

Challenge: "No Secrets" - Call in 3 UAV's in one game.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU NOW HAVE THE BIG BROTHER ICON....

Last but not least there have been various references in music directly to 1984.

It may not be YOUR own taste in music but it is music none the less.

take the legendary Stevie Wonder for example.

"Your name is big brother
You say that you're watching me on the tele,
Seeing me go nowhere,
Your name is big brother,
You say that you're tired of me protesting,
Children dying everyday,
My name is nobody
But I can't wait to see your face inside my door.

Your name is big brother
You say that you got me all in your notebook,
Writing it down everyday,
Your name is o'erseer,
I'll change if you vote me in as the pres,
The President of your soul
I live in the ghetto,
You just come to visit me 'round election time.

I live in the ghetto,
Someday I will move on my feet to the other side,
My name is secluded, we live in a house the size of a matchbox,
Roaches live with us wall to wall,

You've killed all our leaders,
I don't even have to do nothin' to you,
You'll cause your own country to fall."

1984 had a lot of high profile totalitarian examples. After studying Fahrenheit 451,1984, & animal farm, it really leads you to wonder how our own society presses false morality and bogus information.

1984 has "Big Brother" always watching you, being a citizen of Oceania is like living life on a conveyor belt, everything was straight forward and repeated each day. You would never have to watch your back because big brother was doing it for you, but one slip up or mishap (God forbid you speak while your asleep) then you will be inevitably punished and/or vaporized from existence. Like wise, in a metaphoric manner, The Animal farm was a dictatorship ran by a bunch of pigs, with a pack of dogs as reinforcement. The other animals like horses, sheep, you were as lowly and unimportant as one of the proles of Oceania.

In all both 1984 and Animal Farm, the higher powers had the ability to tell you what is and what isn't no matter how falsified or fabricated the "fact" may be. For example in 1984 they would edit all documents, better known as "rectifying", so if the chocolate rations were dropping from 30 to 25, they would simply publish that the chocolate ration had gone UP from 20 to 25 instead. If they told you that 2+2 equaled to 5, then you had no choice but to accept. Just like in Fahrenheit 451  the chief of the firemen asked Montag a question along the lines of, if the government outlawed mowing your lawn then what would you do? & he replied let the grass grow. Not because he believed in it, but because he HAD to.

 The Government would tell you that your living like this:


When in reality your living like this:

Don't forget...