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1984 cultural impact 6651145-10032994 21012888_20130617124021716 (OTHERS…
1984 cultural impact 
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Margaret Atwood began writing the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale in the year 1984.
TV SHOWS /MUSIC
The world-wide hit TV Show, in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras.
Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name is inspired by the torture room in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world"
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On the 1972 Stevie Wonder album Talking Book, there is a track entitled "Big Brother", which opens "Your name is Big Brother./ You say that you're watching me on the telly/ Seeing me go nowhere."
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Coldplay's song "Spies" depicts the general society illustrated in 1984 as well as the concept of thoughtcrime (with references to the Thought Police) and lack of freedom. It includes lines such as "I awake to see that no one is free. We're all fugitives, look at the way we live. Down here, I cannot sleep from fear, no. I said, which way do I turn? I forget everything I learn." and "And if we don't hide here, they're going to find us, and if we don't hide now, they're going to catch us when we sleep, and if we don't hide here, they're going to find us." .
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All over the world where tyrannies rule 1984 is banned, but of course it is pirated. And sales have surged too in countries known as stable democracies. In India and the UK, in China and Poland people are turning to 1984. In the US, sales surged as people searched for a way of getting to grips with the reality of the Trump administration.
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Today there is another set of ‘-isms’, such as nationalism and populism who operate through the mobilisation of that most dangerous of feelings, resentment. And everywhere you look in the contemporary world, ‘strong’ men are in positions of power. They share the need to crush opposition, a fanatical terror of dissent and self-promotion. Big Brothers are no longer a joke but strut the world.
Today it is social media that collects every gesture, purchase, comment we make online, and feeds an omniscient presence in our lives that can predict our every preference. Modelled on consumer choices, where the user is the commodity that is being marketed, the harvesting of those preferences for political campaigns is now distorting democracy.
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Privacy International is now using the name of Big Brother to judge countries who don’t respect the private life right.
Since 2014, Amazon’s smart-speaker Alexa has been used as a “virtual assistant” that is always listening for and awaiting vocal commands from its owners, which has been popularly likened to Big Brother.
The term of big brother is a paradox because it doesn’t designate what the characters are; indeed, a big brother in real life is a brother who takes care of you, who protects you, who loves you totally the reverse of these dictators who spy on us.
Nowadays, the term is widespread. big brother is no more one person but an entire institution that harms freedom and the private life of the population, however the idea of observation and sometimes oppression is still present. Maybe « Facebook » is a good example of a new « big brother »
In November 2011, the United States government argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it wants to continue utilizing GPS tracking of individuals without first seeking a warrant. In response, Justice Stephen Breyer questioned what this means for a democratic society by referencing Nineteen Eighty-Four. Justice Breyer asked, "If you win this case, then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States. So if you win, you suddenly produce what sounds like 1984...."
The control of language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an idea and its opposite through the disciplined use of doublethink.