OK I can’t resist it. I have a Blog and its my duty as ‘one who blogs’ to pass comment on Big Brother. The normal clichéd phrase when writing an article like this is to say “unless you’ve been under a rock you’ll know that Big Brother..blah..blah..blah..”. I would like to rephrase it. Unless you have a normal fufilling life, rich in activities and diverse interests, you’ll know we are in mid Big Brother season, and you will have been wasting your precious minutes of life watching it.
There have been countless column inches and furore generated over Big Brother. Usually its people obsessively commenting on it or otherwise lamenting the state of the world that watches this shite. I would like to fit into the latter category. Of course I have already lost the battle by mentioning it. Big Brother can only be stopped by denial of the oxygen of publicity. It must be written out of history.
Big Brother is the omnipresent media being that everyone loves, everyone knows and everyone talks about. The main concept, re-education of members of the public into celebrities. Willing victims are kept in a state of perpetual war, we watch them commit thought crimes. We see as they inform on each other. Ever aware of their actions they must conform to a code of behaviour, but they don’t know what that is, they will never know what the correct answer is. The punishment will only stop when we decide. And when faced with their greatest fear they scream ‘do it to the other one, not me, do it to them’. As a result we learn to hate them, and as they are expelled we see the massed hordes screaming abuse at them. Then they disappear.
The worst thing about this inescapable entity is Big Brother will have won if I go to my grave hating Big Brother. If I even think about Big Brother on my deathbed they will have won.
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