Somebody Is Watching Me

Whenever I think of Big Brother, I hear Rockwell (with Michael Jackson) singing Somebody’s Watching Me.

Big Brother, for those who do not remember or have not yet read 1984, is a reference to the government watching. Watching. Watching. Everything we do. Conspiracy theorists and many others think that there is always somebody watching. Just waiting for us to do something naughty. Santa’s spies with an agenda or some such notion. Maybe it is just paranoia. Or maybe it is not.

In today’s day and...