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Big Brother MBTI Personality Type

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Personality

What personality type is Big Brother? Big Brother is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w9 - so/sx - 836 in Enneagram, RCOEN in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.

“The Social Eight is the counter-type of the Eight subtypes. Social Eights represent a contradiction: the Eight is a rebellious person who often goes against social norms, but the Social Eight is also oriented toward protection and loyalty. This is a social anti-social person. They express aggression in the service of life and of others.” “Social Eights are very sensitive to detecting situations in which some people are being persecuted or exploited by others that hold more power. And when they detect this kind of thing, they tend to act to protect those who are less powerful. (Karl Marx was likely a Social Eight.)” Sounds about ridiculous. The concept as a whole is censorship of individual thought in order to obey to totalitarian law. In Oceania, every citizen knows that they could be watched at any time. Fear perpetuates obedience. Social six embodies this notion better. “Social Sixes deal with their anxiety by relying on abstract reason or ideology as an impersonal frame of reference. They make sure of things through an obsessive reliance on reason and rules.” “They fear ambivalence. They see things more in terms of black and white than grey.” “Social Sixes fear disapproval from the authorities and think the way to be safe is to do the right thing - and the way to know the right thing is to have clear rules. Archetypally, the guidelines of whatever system is adhered to becomes a kind of replacement authority for the first authority, the parent.”

Biography

Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.  He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling party Ingsoc wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants. In the society that Orwell describes, every citizen is under constant surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens (with the exception of the Proles). The people are constantly reminded of this by the slogan "Big Brother is watching you": a maxim that is ubiquitously on display.

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