I'm happy that we agree that there is no Big Brother--and I'd bet so is GWB whose gov't has often been so compared. But modern technology has rendered Big Brother unneccessary. On our desktop computers and/or our laptops we have more computing power than was contained in large rooms of computers just 40 years ago--to say nothing of the power of nascent computing in 1948 (Orwell's publication)--so that EACH of us can become our own Winston Smith.