GEORGE ORWELL IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE : DRAFT 1

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THE PROBLEM WITH WRITING FUTURISTIC FICTION

is that the bad guys read it and copy the ficticious bad guys detail...

This is how it works..

Everything, whether it be the invention of the police state or the wheel, starts with an idea or a vision that exists in the collective conscious.

Futuristic fiction writers such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and J G Ballard see these ideas and visions and they write them down because they have to and because they are writers.

They then sell copies of these ideas to anyone who wants them...

Real life folk who work in the media, policing, politics and 'intelligence' who love the idea of control but would have never thought of the detail of how, then read these books, see the vision that is merely a money making fantasy for the writer, and start to think about how to appropriate the writers ideas into their real life plans for control.

Seriously...

I'm willing to bet that nearly everyone who works in 'intelligence' the world over has read Brave New World & 1984 and made a few notes - or at least a far greater percentage have than have the worlds sheet metal workers.

And now you can see the influence of these books on REAL society...

The 'Soma drug' from Brave New World is the entire world of modern Prescription Drugs - in particular, this idea that there's a pill from every perceieved weakness or 'abnormal' human character trait that's started in the US and is now spreading over here..

Then you've got the surveillance society of the UK - where there's a camera on every street corner, together with the ideas swimming about involving biometric ID cards and 56 questions before you can board a flight as from 2009.

And then there's the popular TV series Big Brother - a more or less direct copy of Orwell in ficiticious miniature, that does in fact control alot of peoples lives in the UK...

I mean, is it seriously a coincidence that George Orwell was English and that England is the most surveiled in the world which becomes obsessed at least once a year by a crappy reality TV program called Big Brother??

I doubt it...!!!

Therefore, I, Paul Pious James Giovanni £rd, would like to propose that George Orwell isn't a great and intellignet literary rebel as was originally thought, but is in fact the architect of the current sorry and obedient state of the UK AND crap reality TV.

Orwell should therefore be dug up, held to account and put in the Big Brother House for all to see as an example and lesson to all, that once you put an idea out there - ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN...

Whadaya reckon???

(JESUS!!! See what happens when I don't drink for a few days - GIVE ME BACK MY SOMA!!!!)

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	stEvil	controversial, PG. l like it very much. certainly you are right, 'the man' is all about co-optation, rendering subversion impossible as it is assimilated and sold back to the people, hence the magic of capitalism. fight club, michael moore, naomi klein, rage against the machine; all making money for somebody and losing their revolutionary teeth in the process... hence 'soma' is the only revolutionary option left, the kids take drugs like there's no tomorrow (which there isn't) and become conscientious objectors to the war on freedoms... except the man is getting his share from the drug sales... three legs good, two legs bad, signed jake the peg Posted by stEvil on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 23:21 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	It's all about bread and circuses. You give them a bunch of consumer crap that nobody really needs and a spectacle like Reality TV and they all forget what day of the week it is. Everybody is isolated from what is really happening in the world. Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:18 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	But is being isolated from what is really happening such a bad thing??? Reality TV bores the crap out of me - but I have to admit to spending good portions of everyday working on staying completely out of touch with the world by other more entertaining routes.. I've been down the righteous political road and I just found it to be little more than a good way to defeat yourself... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:26 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	I can't stand Reality TV myself. I've got better things to do with my life. Like waste the day away here on MySpace... Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:41 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	PRECISELY!!! IT'S LIKE BEING INVOLVED IN REALITY TV HERE ON THE SPAZZER RATHER THAN JUST WATCHING IT...))))) Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:43 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	Sometimes I wonder why I talk to a guy who uses a monkey pic. Probably the same reason you talk to a girl who uses an etch-a-sketch pic? Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:57 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I've realised this week that pubs and real conversation are definately a dead duck and on the way out, and that by getting most of my social life virtually by way of having the internet plugged directly into my brain, I'm once again ahead of my time... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 01:03 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	Now that was an Orwellian thought! Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 01:08 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	It's the nightmare that Orwell helped to create - but actually I quite like it this way... Beats shovelling shit all day long anyways.... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 01:11 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	There is no revolution, just feedback loops - therefore anyone who gets involved in politics is just making things worse... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 23:38 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	An interesting theory, PG PoundSign. I'd have to agree with you and add that "Reality" TV is soma for the masses. It is so ridiculous. Take that dumb broad Tila Tequila for example. What a phony she is. Her whole "Shot at Love" show was so completely contrived. She's bisexual? Yeah right. Bisexual for the show, maybe. She ended up picking a guy, not a girl! Oh, but you say 50/50 chance, Cupid. Touche. But she dumped the guy like a dirty habit. He said Miss Tequila never even talked to him after the show was over. C'mon. Is Tila really fooling anybody here? Not me. OMG you got me started. Now I can't shut up. Orwell and Huxley can't be blamed for their ideas. They were just extrapolating from real life and projecting a possible outcome scenario. I mean, Brave New World was written during the height of Fascism, while Nineteen Eighty-Four marked the era of the Iron Curtain. They could see what was going on, and they had the vision to see how things might have turned out. Don't kill the messengers. It's the creepy back-room cloak and dagger despots who are to blame for the way things are, and the way things have always been. What the future holds for Orwell and Huxley may or may not come to pass, but shows like "Big Brother" and "A shot at Love with Tila Tequila" don't give me much hope for the evolution of man as a social animal, either. Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 23:45 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I agree that Huxley and Orwell were to an extent reporting what they saw - but I maintain that they mythologised certain aspects of it and provided the detail for the numpties to copy.. The debate comes down to that age old one as to whether art imitates or creates life... Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess know all about that one, and unless I'm mistaken Anthony Burgess more or less came to the conclusion in the end that art created life and trends rather than portraying them... It depends on where your money is... CHICKEN OR EGG Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 23:53 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	Okay, I'll have the chicken. Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 23:59 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:08 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society	tee hee! Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Dingbat Preservation Society on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:09 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	they came from the stars, i saw them	Orwell was a 33˚ mason, paul. you do the math. or whatever discipline 'paranoia' comes under! Posted by they came from the stars, i saw them on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:27 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Well, I've read a few biogs of Orwell and never read that he liked the funny handshake - but it certainly adds water to my theory, so it must therefore be true.... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 00:32 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	KvKvG	hello, although i have never herd of orwell being a mason, i have read that he did have close friends in the secret service and perhaps his vision of the future was inspired by infomation he obtained from such friends. but i belive that his books were a warning, the same for chaplin when he made the great dictator: a warning ignored. indeed, the problem is that we didnt heed the warning, and now we are fucked. i reckon that 90% of us are aware of the problems of advertising, false demrocracy, celebraty culture blah blah blah. But is it really enougth? if you think you out of the box, your just in a bigger one with better posters on the wall. that is why the likes of moore, and chomski, and infowars.com exist. we can sit here and moan, watch bill hicks dvds and think we are immune to the situation. being anti demographic is still a demographic that is exploited. 4 million youtubers will vote ron paul in the next election when the remaining 196 million yanks have never herd of the flaky old cock. so i present this question: how can we solve this problem? how do we 'take the power back' prefrebly without the use of violence (i have recently been ordained so killing dickheads is a big no-no), This is exactly the same problem i am having with the kooks..how? Posted by KvKvG on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 18:29 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I can well believe George Orwell was completely well intentioned - but intentions aren't an excuse all... One of the things that really annoyed me with the Iraq war was this sycophantic belief by most folk AND the opposition parties, that Uncle Tone was acting with honest and decent intentions... If he was - and I don't believe he was because he's a professional liar and because I'm not that fucking stupid or naive - does that excuse his mistake??? One of the sadest things about the Tony Blair era was that so many were bought by his lying lawyer smile - this idea that he was a decent christian bloke who cried all night for the soldiers rather than being seen as the self serving ambition whore that he is... Good old Uncle Tone - the man who claimed he never lies and wasn't seriously cross examined on that - the biggest lie of them all - because the opposition and the media were completely fucking inept.. At least Uncle Saddam said: Look I'm a cunt and I'll happily kill my enemies myself if need be... Uncle Tone thinks he's the worlds messiah!!! He helps start a war and then puts himself forward as the world community peace envoy...?!? He's a plain jane cunt psycho if ever there was one - but a very talented one!! Shit, if I could afford his services to work here at The PGC, I'd pay him whatever he wanted... Anyway, there is no solution - we have to enjoy our lives, forget politics apart from as an abstraction and that's it...))) Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 19:47 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	KvKvG	im not sure that you can compare the actions of one of the biggest mass murders this century to somebody who has written a book. i agree the whole good intention thing with iraq is a cop-out. nobody as obviously intellegent as mr blair would lead us into a disaster under the guise of good intentions. the man is evil. period. the fact he is now a converted catholic is horrible and hillarious at the same time... but if you think blair is bad, gordon may very well the second coming of satan. he has become the very difintion of a dictator- seriously, hiltler got into power through more democratic means than this monster. not only will he be responcible for the deaths of countless people, all over the world, all colours of the rainbow. he will bring his own country to its knees. distroy our art and turn the uk into a giant accountancy office. and when that happens im not sure you will think that politics is just an abstraction. if there is no solution, then we only have a few years left to enjoy what little freedoms we still have. we are approaching the era of the forth reich, we only need to look at the history books to know what that means, at least we can thank orwell for preparing us for the worst? i have just caught a wiff that a Pavement reunion is on the cards, that is all im living for now. as long as that happens before brown and his satanic-child-sex-ring-war-machine sinks its claws in, im happy.... Posted by KvKvG on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 23:26 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Well if I can't have Eric and Tony Blair in the same sentance, you can't suggest Gordon Brown & Hitler in another... Gordons only problem is that he'll be one of the shortest serving Prime Ministers in UK history. His premiership will be a disaster and his old Economic crows will roast him over an open fire... The we'll all be living with the Tories again... Politics is real only in so far as one has to live with the consequences. If you do nothing with politics your whole life they affect you and if you get involved they affect you more... I'm for the former position these days - apart from mouthing off occaionally and breaking any laws that suits me... As for Pavement - I never got into them and I don't expect to if they re-unite... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, January 04, 2008 at 23:38 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	KvKvG	tis an interesting point. i have recently read that brown may not call another election untill 2011. if that happens, i think my hitler comparision may be justified. i hope your right that he dosn't last long, but is cameron really an alternative? why is the british public so obsessed with these two parties? why cant we give an altenative party a chance? i personally vote Green, which is wishful thinking, but unlike the big three they seem to have a policy. Like hunter thompson once said: 'in a democracy, people get what they deserve' but enough of my moaning, i have decided to leave the uk ASAP, it may take me a while, but i refuse to live and consume in a country that has produced two illegal wars, kate nash and peaches fucking geldof. im going for alaska as a first choise, im going to live free with the bears and the salmon. everyone is welcome to join me. x Posted by KvKvG on Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 00:07 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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Watch out for the oil spills!! Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 00:11 [Remove] [Reply to this]