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1984 by George Orwell
The term Big Brother is almost a cliche today, but I imagine most folks who use it have never read the book that made the name so infamous. For Orwell's purposes, Big Brother was the personification of the Inner Party or just the Party, that 1-2% group of elitists who ruled over the fictionalized country called Oceania [a.k.a., the UK, US and all other English-speaking countries].
It's ironic that Orwell was so pessimistic throughout this book since he was himself a socialist. His idea of socialism, however, was not so malicious, even though just as powerful and intrusive. Like most idealists, he had hoped socialism would bring about an end to elitism, where the law of the jungle would be managed by a brotherhood of man [Humanism, the religion of the New World Order]. By the late 1930's though, the soviet experiment was proving that true socialism was an impossibility for inevitably ruthless individuals always rise to the top, ulimately producing an oligarchy [rule by a few].
I see in the figure Big Brother the imbodiment of another evil that Orwell would never have suggested, being an atheist/humanist. Big Brother is the god of this world, the prince of darkness, the devil -- Satan. The issue that allows me to make this connection is knowledge. Note throughout 1984 that Big Brother's goal is to control minds by controlling knowledge. The Proles [85% of the people] were severely limited by their education, an education supplied [rationed] by the state. Sound familiar? Do you ever wonder why public schools are failing? They're not, really. They're actually succeeding in their intended purpose.
Of course, a more forceful control was required of Outer Party members, that 10-14% given just enough education and technical training to perform complex tasks required by the State. Thus, the neccessity for the Thought Police [sort of like the PC pundits of today, only with official government power to cure thought criminals like pro-lifers, heterosexuals, gun owners, Christian fundamentalists, etc.].
Then too is the application of Newspeak, that effort by Big Brother to control the minds of everyone by limiting vocabulary. Although a limited vocabulary doesn't limit one's ability to actually think, it does limit one's ability to articulate what he or she is thinking, so that eventually the thought vaporizes. Knowledge is built on knowledge. Prevent a core knowledge from developing and you can essentially control how people think about certain issues. Unborn babies aren't babies; they become fetuses. Sexual deviants becomes gay. And enemies of the State become anyone refusing to accept the absolute authority of the State.
Where does Satan fit in with this analogy with Big Brother? Was it not Satan who beguiled us regarding knowledge by asking, "Yea, hath God said?" He has always tried to control our knowledge of good and evil, even to the point of quoting Scripture to the Lord Jesus in an attempt to trick the very Son of God into doubting Himself, if not the Father.
Shortly after the 66 books making up the Bible were established as canon, papal decree forbid the lay Christian from possessing a copy of the Bible. Why? More recently, modern bibles have been edited for political correctness and reflect the belief system of the Gnostics who were thriving in Alexandria, Egypt in the 4th Century. Gnostics denied the deity of Christ and absolute moral values, claiming only that which is spiritual matters, so what men and women do in or with their bodies does not. Thus the roots of moral relativism.
All those who attempt to control knowledge, academic and biblical, are doing the bidding of Big Brother. Those who fall for it are little more than simple outer party members, foolish proles or scornful inner party members. See Proverbs 1:22. Think about it.
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