Category Archives: Rise of Big Brother
Introduction
This Special Report, The Rise of Big Brother: Social Control a Century Ago can be read sequentially by going to the first entry in the series: 1984 Revisited At the end of each entry is a clear link to the … Continue reading
6 Big Sister Is Watching You
Rise of Big Brother: Part 6 Big Sister Is Watching You (Click here to go to the beginning of this series.) An earlier entry in this series, “Band of Big Brothers,” shared the story of the World War 1-era American … Continue reading
5 Li’l Brother Is Watching You
Rise of Big Brother: Part 5 Li’l Brother Is Watching You (Click here to go to the beginning of this series.) If you were a “Child of the 1930s”—or 40s, 50s or 60s—you may well have aspired to being a … Continue reading
4 Band of Big Brothers
Rise of Big Brother: Part 4 Band of Big Brothers (Click here to go to the beginning of this series.) The US Government was far too busy at the beginning of the US involvement in WW1 to place a major … Continue reading
3 Burning More Than Draft Cards
Rise of Big Brother: Part 3 Burning More Than Draft Cards (Click here to go to the beginning of this series.) The administration asserts the right to fill the ranks of the regular army by compulsion…. Is this, sir, consistent … Continue reading
2 All in the Family: Uncle Sam and Big Brother
Rise of Big Brother: Part 2 All in the Family: Uncle Sam and Big Brother (Click here to go to the beginning of this series.) There is no question that we are living in an intrusive age. Surveillance and inspection … Continue reading
1 1984 Revisited
Rise of Big Brother: Part 1 1984 Revisited Dealing with the regimes of both Hitler and Stalin in the 1940s left Americans and Brits in horror at the idea of totalitarianism. The term ‘an authoritarian regime’ denotes a state in … Continue reading
Pamela Starr Dewey
The Rise of Big Brother 