What is "Big Brother" for anyway?

"Big Brother" serves three purposes:

1. to condition you to the total surveillance society. If you can't see that such a society is within reach then you must be blind. Such a society was prophesised by such luminaries as George Orwell in "1984", but more ominously by Zbigniew Brzezinski in "Between Two Ages : America's Role in the Technetronic Era".

2. to minimise the effect the phrase "Big Brother" has when critics of the growing police state use the phrase "big brother" to describe the state.

3. to reduce your resistance to the police state and the total surveillance society, for how can you protest against being surveilled every second of your life if you yourself have sat in front of the TV and watched Channel 4's "Big Brother"? Have you watched the participants sleeping at 3am? Have you watched them discuss whatever in the lounge? in the pool? in the garden? So how can you protest if somebody wants to watch your every move and hear every word you speak, or even know every private thought you have (for such technology exists)?