76371 - Transcription Podcast #41: The Big Brother
N. Lygeros
The notion of the Big Brother, so you remember that it was created by George Orwell. But very few people know that it was, in fact, created for the Soviet Union because it belonged to writers who had written many books about this, not only for himself but in fact in a mission, in the Cold War. Because they asked several writers to do something like this, to write novels, books, to explain the mentation of the Soviet Union. And by the way, they asked him also about other writers, if they should put them in the list and for some of them, he said, no. So, you see, you take a book but you don’t know the substrate of the book. In reality the book was made for that, so now in our novel we use the Big Brother as a notion, an extra-notion but in reality it was made for that. So it is in fact a self-reference. We use the notion that has been used for that, in the same place, in the same framework. So, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ is exactly the same thing with the Soviet Union and now with Russia and the hacking system. Big Brother is watching you. Even in the series, Person of Interest you can see it and they use this notion of “Big Brother is watching you”. In reality, it’s the Samaritan, not the Machine. So here we see that this notion was not only made for the others but also in the system, in the Union. So we are all brothers but I am the biggest, so I have the right to see you, to watch you. So in reality in the Soviet Union and you remember, you don’t have the word Russia in the name but Russia was The Big Soviet, all the others were small. But we are Soviets. So in reality they wanted equality only for the 14 not for the 15. So they used it inside and outside. For example, with satellite countries. For that, we have to keep in mind that they don’t need a big barbarity, they prefer small barbarities which are controlled by the biggest one. So this is a network of barbarities and now the system wanted to do the same thing but it was a failure, so the Soviet Union was at another level very deep, very deep in controlling everything. Inside, outside, at the borders, everywhere. So imagine that they did this for 30 years, plus 44 and in this duration they had experience in that field and they keep this experience, even now. So how to control all the other persons, and one way to do it also, I think, in their mind a crash test, create some proxy wars just to train your military systems. No big war, only proxy. We are in the Cold War but we have to train our guys. So I can send them there, there or there, I don’t care but very important, it’s just a way to have a robust network of barbarity. So this notion looks, in fact, like a spider. You have one spider, the Big Brother and in its networks, small spiders all are controlled by the same. So its very easy to go further, to go deeper, to go outside. In fact they think that the whole world is just one chessboard. That’s the point of the Big Brother.