Big Brother is Watching You
The idea that government was watching/spying over the citizenry as a "big brother" was rejected for so long. Why? 1) People trusted their government blindly for the most part. 2) The term big brother and idea of spying on people everywhere came from a dystopian fictional epic called "1984" by George Orwell. It's not a shocker that people thought it was pure fiction, relegated to the realm of "conspiracy theorists" as a quick way to dismiss the idea.
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The phrase "Big Brother is Watching You" comes directly from the book 1984, where TV have cameras and watch you at any time. The TV tells you what to do, what to wear, when to eat, etc. And this book was written in the 1940's before there was even television! What a visionary Orwell was to predict the drive for control over a population.
Seems eerily similar to our own lives, doesn't it? Our TVs shape and form beliefs in us that have us act to buy certain things, and live in certain ways, all through the power of influence and suggestion. We are engineered to think, feel and act in certain predetermined and preselected ways.
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1984 enacted a terrifying account of a future dystopia where "the Party" controlled all of society, all the time. Citizens were under constant control, taken to be reprogrammed at the sign of dissent and unconformity. There was the though police that made sure your thinking was in line with the "Party". The overseer of the whole state, was called Big Brother.
This name stuck and became a term to refer to the abuse of civil liberties through mass governmental control, and more specifically through surveillance technology like was done in 1984. But mostly, people refereed to the surveillance state with only inklings of evidence and facts about how real Big Brother surveillance was in the world. It may not have been as large in the 1940's, but it rapidly started to grow after the world war. Orwell saw the changing trends, and projected into the future with his novel 1984, published in 1948.
Then came Edward Snowden, to change the landscape of reality forever by exposing the true and deep state of surveillance.
Snowden released NSA documents detailing how governments around the world were spying on their own citizens, on a scale few could imagine. The NSA collects data from over 3 billions phone calls each day, with more than 200 million text messages stored as well. The NSA also mines data from ISPs and online companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Apple through the PRISM program.
All of this was done without the need to go to a court to be allowed to do it. And all of this data was available by low-level NSA technicians. Getting approval for spying didn't even require supervisor approval.
In 2015, Snowden announced another program being used called Smurf Suite. This allows governments to take control of your smartphone at any time. Such as turning on your microphone at any time and listening to you, even when you think your phone is off. 2016 had the whole "terrorist" and Apple iPhone breaking into issue. Well, the government at least tried to get official court "approval" to break into iPhones, even though they could do it anyways.
Now, instead of people speaking about reality and sounding like they were "nut jobs" or whatever other dismissive remark used to deny reality people don't want to honestly look into, people who are speaking about the big brother surveillance state are being listened to by other people and paid attention to for speaking about reality.
But seriously... all people had to do was open their eyes and look around them in the world. If not in their own town, then the region, or their country, or other allied countries. If the USA or Canada doesn't have enough cameras to make you think about a surveillance state, then all you had to do was look over at the UK and see how many they had.
Back in 2013, the UK had one surveillance camera for ever 11 people. Even in 2009, there were 67 cameras for every 1000 people in the City of London financial district.
And the number of cameras the UK had then, was a lot more than other locations, and even with multiple cities combined:
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The reality is in. You are being surveiled, whether you did something wrong, or not. Many of the government and the lower-level minions who run it, are in hyper-fear, hyper-threat, hyper-preemptive hyper-vigilance mode, thinking anyone and everyone is a would-be terrorist that's ready to bomb anyone and take all of our freedoms! They and the citizenry are indoctrinated into thinking there are threats that aren't there, waiting and ready for anything and trying to catch people before they do something, like precrime in Minority Report.
There is an idea that the only way to try to stop people from doing harm is by setting up a total control surveillance grid, keeping us locked into a prison planet. There is also the idea that we need to be controlled for our own good. And there is the idea that people need to be controlled so that certain others have and remain in power over them. Many don't care about helping the populace, and just want to have power and control over everyone else so they can live as elite masters.
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No, that's not a fake symbol. That's a real symbol from a sector of the US government called the Information Awareness Office. The eye has become a renowned symbol for surveillance, and those who made this symbol knew that very well, telling everyone that they are being watched by Big Brother. If that's not a direct sign and admission of mass surveillance on the planet, I don't know what is!
There is a reality of mass surveillance, keeping us under lock and key in many respects, holding us in a prison, where many of us are all too eager to act as both prisons and guards of our own cages, not wanting to be free, like those in Plato's cave that didn't want to see the substance behind the appearances of shadows, or those rules by the illusion of the great and powerful Oz behind the curtain.
What we end up with, is some people still not accepting reality. They choose to be brain-dead automaton zombies who follow the narratives that the mainstream media and government scripts tell them about reality.
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A lot of great stuff in here.
It's interesting how that works. Whether or not intentional, it essentially conditions people to this possibility.
And then when it starts to be like "dude.. uh, this is kinda scary, check this out", the response can be like oh you mean like Big Brother type of things? lul
So it's like people have a built-in straw man ready to go whenever they hear something they should be concerned about.
Ya, a lot of the things that would be "tin foil hat talk" and mocked even like 10 years are just obviously realistic now.
I feel like it was hard for statists to anticipate this, because they don't see the government as a system of aggression looking out for its own growth and survival. They imagine it working how they want it to work, like that it's bound by standards and decency.
In reality it's just perfectly natural for it to happen this way. The stakes are large, and as things become more sophisticated, data like this is a tool or weapon, and they won't just not use it if it gives them a leg up on the competition, or other potential competition.
Yeah, 10 years ago things were just nonsense to them, but now there is official admission of what is going on and people can't just deny it anymore... People project themselves into the positions of others and assume that if they wouldn't act a certain way then others wouldn't either. It's a complex world... thanks for the feedback.
Exactly!
But despite of sophisticated surveillance the government had they still failed to stop mass killing in the United States, and the 9/11 attack that they blindingly pretend that they failed to stop terrorists in their country. But it was just another propaganda to make a war in the middle east.
1984 is so crazy, it’s mental. But real! The fact that the gov can constantly survail our phones and listen in at any time is just horrible, we should be told this when we purchase them as part of the agreement, or they pay for half of our contracts or something for that ‘privilege’.
Woah, I know that the uk has lots of cameras but I did not realise it was that much more than the rest of the world! How do people get away with so much stuff when everything is being watched. It’s so they can delete the footage when black ops men in black, grooming groups or elite pedos go and kidnap children left right and centre!!! I lived right next to Wandsworth, in Croydon. Crazy shit man, just nuts amount of cameras. This can be used for good in a very violent area. But all of the phone hacking is beyond illegal in my opinion
A global control grid,w here only they have access to stop people they want to stop doing things, while allowing themselves to go on unimpeded it seems...
I wonder how much of a visionary he really was.
Mind games by introducing the idea to society - or a whistle blower? ,of the mid 20th century.
He (along with Huxley, brave new world), was a member of the leftist Fabian society.( links to the, CFR, Bildeberg group, etc are online).
Did he suddenly realize what the long term plan of marxism was, and wanted non of it - and tried to warn people..
OR, was he fully aware of it, supported the communist dystopia, and used the novel as a way to enter the 'new reality' into mainstream society thinking?
My first hought's was that he was a was a communist, and supported the whole NWO agenda....
But like a lot of people as they get older and grow up - they change their perspectives...
...maybe...just maybe...he changed his mind entirely - and this was his only way to get his warning out to the masses...
The information awareness office was brought into being in 2002, no doubt using 9/11 as the reason.
THAT is a truly frightening symbology - for it's sheer audaciousness.
...And it supports the whole narrative of this NWO strategy being something formulated - in a very serious manner - back from Jekyll island times and the fed reserve - and even before that!...
Yeah, he could have been writing blueprint for the elite to dominate us. But then why make it open? It's more like he was trying to let people know through fiction, the vision of the rulers for the future. Carroll Quigley openly wrote about plans of various groups as non-ficiton, but the fictional accounts seem to travel further in society. Gofigure... lol. Many movies are made that allegorical truths about reality, just like Orwell did with 1984 and Animal Farm. Huxley was also talking on college campuses about the idea of rulers and the book was exposing that too I think in some ways.
That is their modus operandi.
Holly wood films coming out before 'real life' events, kind of thing...
The Rothschild 'Time' magazine 20 years ago, talking about one world currency by 2018..
That kind of thing.
Part of the psy-op is to drip feed the narrative before 'real life' events occur, so 'we are acclimatized'.
That's an idea, that they are doing this as part of the modus operandi of the elite. Orwell has talked about this power over people like Huxley. Huxley diverged from the family lineage of elitism. They made it public, not secret. The "revelation of the method" and "predictive programming" ideas are enticing, but they aren't the de facto reality for why someone does something like Orwell or Huxley.
One thing I have seen bandied about somewhat convincingly for years now is they love giving clues to what they are about to do and are doing. On our money, on our media. Some say it is because of some spiritual law they have to do this, but I suspect it is more them laughing at us thinking we are to stupid and timid to do anything about it.
I think neither of them.
Just a psyop to acclimatize us for the next phase..
They always say, what do you have to hide? The real question is, what do they have to hide. I guarantee they have far darker and more sinster secrets than you or I could ever you hope to. Every once in a while you catch a glimpse of what the elite thinks a worthy cause is and bombing some third world country that can't defend it's self is usually at the top of the list.... Control and manipulation, secrets and shadows.... I'm sure it's because they care so much about you.....😂
It's okay if the video cameras monitor the community for more security, but I do not agree to monitor our calls or live checking our text message, we have the right to have privacy.
Who watches the watchers? If we had local community surveillance and cooperation, and could access it in times of criminal activity, we could hold people accountable for their activity without centralized governance ;)
very true
The only part I disagree with. They care nothing for us being free, and daily become more careless in letting us know we are their property. All of this surveillance is from their fear the cattle may revolt.
The question now is what is going to be done about it?
I agree on the "more careless" part. Not so sure if they are in fear of a revolt. Historically most "revolts" have been organized by the cabal itself - or their strawmen- as part of the Hegelian Dialectic. People in general only revolt genuinely only if they don't have food on the table anymore and no beer in the fridge. The establishing of surveillance is part of the bigger plan for absolute control monitored by AI. In China people already get automated warnings from AI if they are about to jaywalk...
They are getting more careless, their lies become more obvious, the censorship more blatant, the laws tougher and tougher because they know that there is nothing we can or will do about it.
Raise awareness to gain knowledge and understand there is an issue to begin with. Then numbers can organize to do something to act. Without knowledge, thereeis no understanding, and there is no action. People need to care...
Then you get the whole 'yes but if you have got nothing to hide why would you care?' slave mentality. Its also to keep people in a constant state of perpetual fear, if they feel like there is a muslim that is going to blow them up on the end of every street corner then they willingly accept it all. Im from the UK where there is more CCTV than anywhere else in the World, it is on total lockdown yet most people beLIEve that they are free! Beam me up Scotty! :)
Yeah, look at France on May 1st protests with government crackdown... shows ppl how free they aren't if they are paying attention... Nothing to hide is a good way to excuse violations of privacy and rights, so that no one is allowed to keep their sanctity of self to themselves. Why not have implants that monitor thoughts :P
Buen post muy interesante , me gusto,saludos.
I read 1984 in one night when I was in college. It resonated with me so much at the time.
But as always the problem is to find the balance between too much and not enough surveillance.
Of course surveillance can be used for sinister purposes in countries where governments try to keep a tight grip on the population.
However no surveillance at all is also a haven for criminality and makes it very hard to find culprits.
I don't agree that it is a case of surveillance being all evil but it needs to operate within the framework of proper democratic values and human rights.
A difficult balance.
We could use technology in our own neighborhoods, and allow access when there is a crime. That way we can verify claims of violence, and allow privacy to be maintained.
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