In the beginning of the novel 1984, Winston keeps seeing posters that say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” In the novel “Big Brother” is representing the government. Big Brother himself is the party leader. I think that big brother watches the people through the “telescreen” and tries to control society. Winston says that the police patrols were snooping in people’s windows however, only the thought police matter. I don’t really understand what the thought police do? But i think that they get inside of people’s heads and monitor their thoughts. I think that big brother exists in our government today, but it’s not as severe as in this novel. I don’t think that we have lost our right to privacy. Each person can make their life as private, or as open as they want. The only time you loose your right to privacy is if someone would break into your house. Everyone on the ADT commercials talk about how they feel so violated after a burgulary. I think that privacy still exists because when I’m at my house I can do whatever I want pretty much without anyone saying anything about it. I don’t have any neighbors because I live in the country and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I don’t think anyone would stand to have a telescreen put in their house so that higher authority could watch them. I wouldn’t want to give up my basic freedoms just to feel safe. I like having my own thoughts and private conversations with people. I also like being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it.
I think it’s crazy how Orwell predicted in 1949, that our society would be like this in 1984 and now here we are in 2011 and our world is nothing like that. In “Feed”, M.T. Anderson predicts what the world will be like in the future. For example, we will have flying cars and computers installed into our brains. I really don’t think that our future will ever amount to that though, because no one is going to be willing to be the guinea pig for that experiment.
