"Big Brother" is a fictional character introduced in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. As such, Big Brother is an enigmatic dictator of a dictatorship taken to its utmost logical consequence – a situation where the ruling party has complete and total power for its own sake over the inhabitants of a society. In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under a complete surveillance by the ruling authorities, mainly by the use of televised images. The oppressed people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you." Over time, this somewhat hackneyed expression has come to mean more and more to modern people as the prophecy seems to reach for a state of self-fulfillment.

Big Brother is Watching You

Dirque du Soleil

He's from the past, so he knows the future...

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