Big Brother

Emmanuel Goldstein

After the reading of the prescient book by George Orwell, “1984,” there can be no doubt that Emmanuel Goldstein is Big Brother himself. Goldstein’s manifesto (co-written by the sadistic fat slob, O’Brien), “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism,” was not a criticism of Oceania’s totalitarian state. Rather, it detailed the construct of the entire society. The Big Brother duality, of course, can easily be extrapolated to current times.

Addendum: Finding books to read is becoming a difficult task. The influence of “correctness,” the “cancel culture,” and Fascist social movements has resulted in a wave of published trash and propaganda. Soon, all of the legacy books and literary works will be “cancelled” as well.

Miscellany: The shortage of acceptable reading material has resulted in the resurrection of the Spotify “app” on the iPhone XR (using the marginal EarPods). Might as well exploit the unlimited music streaming feature of the current prepaid wireless plan, eh?