. . .
1 “While watching late last night, it dawned on me. Big Brother is now privatized and outsourced. The ‘Legs Network’ is Big Brother.”
2 “I like it. The name, that is. The Network provides ideological programming punctuated by ideological advertising. Spin reality and repeat it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and . . . .”
1 “A vile message grounded in fear and repeated and repeated and repeated to advance the interests of the corporate sponsors.”
2 “Over and over and over and over.”
. . .
1 “Female applicants are required to submit photographs of their legs. They know what they are foisting.”
2 “Shoes? Restorative varicose vein surgery? And all of the propagandists are graduates of the Edward L. Bernays School of Disinformation.”
1 “One was a Joe Goebbels Fellow.”
2 “Josephina Goebbels Fellow?”
. . .
1 “A higher percentage of the indoctrinees of the ‘Legs Network’ are living on government assistance than the viewers of public television.”
2 “The governments – federal, state and local – are also even bigger Big Brothers than in the past.”
1 “Every new social media spawns its own monopoly and gestates another Big Brother. Amazon, Google, Facebook, you name it, are all Big Brothers. We need a protective and independent ‘Big Brother’ to protect or at least to inform us. Instead we get a bevy of Orwellian ‘Big Brothers’ that monitor and manipulate us.”
2 “Everyone is in our corner and no one is in our corner.”
. . .
Bumper stickers of the week:
Big Brothers abound
“Legs Network” is Big Brother
Facebook is Big Brother
Google is Big Brother
Twitter is Big Brother
Amazon is Big Brother
ebay is Big Brother
Zillow is Big Brother
_____ is Big Brother
Are Big Sisters more benign?
[A Pawel Kuczynski sketch of a video camera on a wall focused (and fixated) on a second video camera on the same wall also focused (and fixated) on the first camera.]