If you have been lucky enough to read 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell you will know that the very concept of Big Brother is one of an all seeing, all knowing entity which regulates everything with a strict control of fear and indoctrination. Im guessing this is common knowledge by now. But one thing has been bothering me about the game show this week - how much is the show organised to control our feelings and to create our prejudices against some housemates? In other words - does the show tell us who to hate and who to love?
Its something which has always played on my mind. I always thought that by offering a text vote to the public you would get a democratic response to who should be evicted - in effect, the one which should leave is the one the public wishes to evict. But with the media offering their own strong opinions about who is a good or bad housemate, personal judgment can often be lost into a mass of propaganda.
And if that myth about video editing for the nighty hour is true, about presenting some housemates in more positive light and others in a more negative light, arent we just being fooled into voting someone out to please some bigwig who is doing what he can to ensure a certain victor? Wouldn't that just make the whole thing a sham? Especially we have recently heard that housemates are 'bred' and trialled in the Big Brother experience before they even set a foot into the house.
My thoughts have been provoked after Mikey's departure this evening - he was no favourite to go at any point in the programme. He was presented in a bad light this week and went as a result. Now Mikey may have deserved it - but how much did the factors of the media affect the public's decision making?
The fear factor may not be prominent in the Channel Four game show. But is the brainwashing occurring right under our very noses?
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