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Is Big Brother watching you, or are you watching Big Brother?

2009.06.16

It is estimated that if you wander round the City for an hour or so you will end up on about 300 cctv cameras... it's a fine line between public security and institutionalised paranoia.

But switching tack, what's the whole thing about "Big Brother" on tv? It has just started what seems like the umpteenth series and it is described as "reality tv". Well, the concoction of weirdos, losers and dregs of the gene pool who seem to populate it are no "reality" that I recognise... perhaps I need to get out more.
9 Comments
JaCkYe great composition;)
JaCkYe · 2009-06-16: 13:33
Rogermay well spotted! the more I think, we are heading towards a POLICE State! but I guess they do come in hand in investigating crime. I hear local councils have now been told to go easy on monitoring via CCTV's
Rogermay · 2009-06-16: 13:40
gonia yes the view is super, I like the old house on the right.
gonia · 2009-06-16: 13:56
redro I like the divide in the image and the subtle way the camera blends in the shadow with just a "discreet" glimmer ...Smartly composed.

I don't mind the cameras in the city...yet. It's a public place after all.
Although it could reach a point in the future when privacy will not exist anymore...anywhere. Already technology makes possible the observing through the walls of movement people make inside their houses and it is watched from satellites at the present.

As for the Big Brother show, with all the fakeness is still part of reality simply just by existing in our world.
And weird people won't be on the show if they won't exist in real life first of all, to be able to come out on TV.
What I don't understand is the fascination of certain "normal" people who are regularly watching this garbage and taking it seriously.
redro · 2009-06-16: 14:15
slowpete don"t think you are alone.
nice one
slowpete · 2009-06-17: 01:45
jet28 Great shot - I think the cameras have their place in helping to apprehend criminals.
jet28 · 2009-06-17: 03:01
scimmietta :-) very intersting idea
scimmietta · 2009-06-17: 06:41
Widcat When my daughter was studying at Kings College, London, she used to stand in front of a relatively low camera at Leicester Square and I could see her on the internet from the States. The delay was only about a minute so it was almost "real" time! She would talk to me on her cell phone at the same time. Passersby would ask her why she was waving at the camera, and when she explained, they would sometimes join in!
Widcat · 2009-06-18: 01:10
girafferacing Great shot! I agree about the TV Big Brother. The first series seemed so experimental back in 2000 but now they just seem to pick the oddest bunch they can find. It certainly doesn't encourage me to watch it!
girafferacing · 2009-06-18: 13:13
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