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Big Brother origins
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The Year 1984 Was Written: George Orwell’s Vision and the World That Shaped It
The novel’s creation was also a personal reckoning. Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, had spent years documenting the suffering of the working class in...
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The Hidden Origins: When Did Big Brother Start and Why It Still Looms
What’s often overlooked is that the concept predates Orwell. The term Big Brother itself traces back to a 19th-century Irish song, "God Save Us All from...