Ideologies / Stalinist-Marxist / Big Brother
Fiction§ The minds · fictional · Oceania · State icon (fiction)
Big Brother
The Party's eternal face
Total surveillance, total ownership.
Economic−95
SocialistMarket
Governance+100
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+30
TraditionalProgressive
Orwell's omnipresent state-icon, the literary archetype of total surveillance and a one-party regime that owns reality itself.
social
Abolishes family, history and private loyalty in the Party's name.
economic
The Party owns all production; scarcity is a tool of control.
governance
The perfected totalitarian state — surveillance, doublethink, the memory hole.
Notable for
- 'Big Brother is watching you'
- Symbol of the surveillance state
- Newspeak and doublethink
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