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Big Brother Might Be Here

OH BROTHER! BIG Brother is now watching you, just as it was prophesied in the novel 1984 by George Orwell.

The dystopian novel was actually written in 1949, about the time the Communists were taking control of China. The novel, written in Scotland, focuses on government overreach, totalitarianism, repression, and the subsequent behaviors in society. Scotland does not appear to have become such a society as the society in the book, but in the Peoples’ Republic of China the role a new

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