The freedom of political choice is absolutely illusionary. Your votes don't matter, you ping pong between two parties, two faces of the same coin. And whatever they've bloviated to the masses before is swiftly forgotten and its business as usual as they once more take a "temporary" hold upon the reigns of power. These empty suits within public corridors need not represent you at all, and do exactly as ordered by their true masters, who may as well be occult demons lurking in the shadows. Inflation rises, taxes rise, livelihoods vanish, and yet the proletariat accept it. Thinking surely this time at the ballot box things will change. Scarcely moving a degree beyond that thought. As long as they had alcohol, nonsensical newspapers, entertainment, the football game and pornography. They were easy enough to control. That is the truth of my experience. Now go on. Hate me.
Most people I know actively denounce me for trying to inform them about the totalitarian state we live under now and the genocide it is enacting upon us.
George Orwell's uncanny predictions are now coming true. An amazing writer and so courageous. "But if thought can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thought" - George Orwell. I believe 1984 is our wake-up call and we need to heed it.
Ever thought it wasn't predictions... Ever thought it was the plan... The Jesuits always have a plan... 1984 was the plan... and planned for centuries... Nostradamus prophecies were plans too... in his prophecies he said there would three world wars... so did Albert Pike.... The last war would be the Jesuit Pope.... the first Jesuit pope... Pope Francis.. The current Pope. Why was George Orwell so horrified about the sinking of Titanic... I've always been 50/50 on George Orwell... did he write 1984.. or was he paid to write it... or did he know why the world would go into tyranny... We are going through it now... and all the media, social networks, platform like facebook, youtube all being blocked or removed... was Orwell and Nostradamus doing the same thing... showing the plan... in a way the people can understand the plan.
Re: comment: okay, interesting now compare this info of George Orwell 1984, to the Holy Bible. Just see how they might match or come across as parrallel. Give it a try.
I literally got the chills at this point, 51:55, ... 'He believed that the foundations of totalitarianism lay in the misuse of language to manipulate the truth and was pessimistic about humanity's tendency to be subject to such manipulation.' Wow!, how 2023 is that assertion, talk about a man who saw tomorrow.
Orwell was a Revolutionary Socialist writing about and experiencing the rise of Fascism. The freedom right IS a fascist movement.. If Orwell was alive today, he would writing similar pieces about Trump, the anti vaxx, anti mask "Freedom movement"
Orwell foresaw the eventual rise of "doublespeak", a brainwashing technique used to confuse and thus control the public, which we are experiencing more than ever now with words like "woke" being inverted to make something good like awareness, sound bad. This misuse of language and semantics is now being applied in our schools, used to ban history books on subjects the authorities want to eliminate.... like the history of slavery and Jim Crow in America, the Nazi Holocaust, the American government's genicide against Native Americans and racism as a topic in general. Everyone should read 1984 before they succeed in banishing it as too "woke" for our consumption! Orwellian thought police, sent from the totalitarian's "Ministry of Truth" will be banging on our doors and interfering with our internet access in order to suppress knowledge soon enough. We will wake up in an Orwellian police state!
I believe that George Orwell was not only a gifted writer, but he was incredibly insightful. Perhaps his long bouts of illness gave him opportunity for introspection and reflection on the places and times in which he lived.
I read 1984 for the first time in 2020. I am 60 now. I wish I had read it when I was younger, it might have opened my eyes to what was happening years ago, induced me to delve deeper. This book is prophetic.
I’m also 60. Read it when I was in college. Along with Animal Farm. I’ve tried but just can’t bare to watch the movie with Richard Burton and John Hurt. It should be mandatory viewing for high school students even though it’s probably one of the scariest horror films that will result in nightmares. If kids can stomach the Freddy Krueger movies they should do just fine having to think about how real 1984 really is.
@@luv2dancesalsa465 I bambini ascoltano notiziari sulle vittoriose avanzate dell' Eur-anglia contro le orride squadre dell'EurAsia, e sugli orribili crimini dell'EurAsia e di come i bambini dell' Oceania muoiono di fame e di covid per colpa loro. Quindi possono ascoltare anche qualcosa di veritiero.
Io ho letto 1984 nel 1984 su prescrizione di un docente partigiano, e la cosa che m'impressionò da subito del teatro dell' 11 Settembre 2001 fu la fluida penetrazione di un aereo fino a spuntare dall'altra parte.
"The Animal Farm," is one of the set books in the High School English curriculum here in Kenya. It has been in the curriculum several times, now across the years. It is the only book done by a European writer. The rest are from African authors. This guy is a literary genius.
I read it on my own sometime in the last century. With nobody to direct my thinking on it, I related the book to America. It wasn't until somebody made fun of me on the internet that I knew it was specifically about Russia.
30 years ago I lived in East Germany. 30 years ago I read the book and I knew I had to get out of there. 30 years later I realize it's worse than ever before.
Re: comment: compare this to/with the Bible. See how this might match the Bible prophecies that are coming true as it might appear to be George Orwell.Jesus Christ is & knows a MUCH HIGHER knowledge than any human writings, but I certainly get it, I too get George Orwell 1984 book. Just try seeing how they compare to each other! George Orwell was only human; not more than that. But he certainly makes you think hard about what’s going on?! What’s happening?! Yikes!!!
@@barbaradouglas2283Jesus didnt write the Bible & alot were murdered so they were not in the Bible. Translations r diff. Judas journal was found & Jesus asked him to turn him in & Judas didnt want to hence he hung himself & proving how much Jesus loved us knowing what would happen to him. Bible meant to say how to procreate not the correct way to have sex. God creates gays so why should they be sinners? I could go on & archologists dig up journals of others even about Jesus & Mary if they kissed on lips or not.
It is incredible how a person from the past could see what was gonna happen in the future, but most people nowadays can't even see their own present, George Orwell a wise man
It’s following the inevitable end of allowing tyranny in a growing technological age. He certainly exposed how the elite name things the opposite of what they are (Ministry of Love, Peace, Plenty, etc.). We have “Patriot Act”, “Inflation Reduction Act”, etc. Our Smart TVs can see us & China exposes J-Walkers on large public screens, facial recognition everywhere….they’re just getting warmed up. Where’s today’s Orwells that can foresee our now inevitable ends?
@@1984Skynet It's just a time loop. He described what was going on in his time - as, "nowhere" means Now&Here, but not No&Where. We are still here. "That's why WE are here"... (From the song. 🤫😂)
George Orwell's books, in particular, 1984 and Animal Farm, should be mandatory reading in all British schools. Especially with the sinister things going on around the world right now.
They have been on the reading list of many schools in fhe uk in the past ; In part because they both describe in clear and compelling narratives the dangers of authoritarian regimes. Perhaps they've fallen out of favour a little as we have put a few years between those two great examples, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, but we ignore the warnings at out own risk . The rise of the dictators seems to be upon us . There is something insidious in the current state of affairs, perhaps the threat of scarcity or impending ecocide or is there something in our media social or otherwise that fosters nationalistic and populist sentiments ? Whatever we do well not to ignore Orwell . The real Mr.Blair.
You can add The Gulag Archipelago to that list, and to all of the West. We had to read both of those books by Orwell in public school in NY state, and watched the movies in class. Animal Farm was middle school, say 8th grade and then 1984 was 11th. Each year in HS we read a Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Midsummers Night Dream, The Tempest. When NY state theater institute did a production of the Tempest, Schoharie County HS students attended the last performance for class as they had been reading it, and they were gifted the set design (gaudy purple hideous logs and fake trees with strips of some see-through billowing violet cloths strips coming out of them) for their senior prom when their teachers asked for them. Poor kids. We read the War of the Worlds too, and listened to the original radio broadcasting, which might have prepared us if the aliens want to invade. American's are not all stupid, just mostly the coasts and big cities.
@@Skitdora2010 Good call , Ivan Denisovich also, a great intro to Solzhenitsyn. We read Brave New World Aldous Huxley at the same time as 1984. I didnt like some of the lit , Forster, Lawrence (and Laurie Lee) and really resented having to study. Its taken 40 years to get over that and I now appreciate their work. Its so counterproductive forcing kids to read , whatever they study it should be enjoyable first and foremost
@@Skitdora2010 oh come on, no one thinks that all Americans are stupid, far from it. I was so pleased to read that you had read so many British authors, particularly since you have so many wonderful American ones: Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller to name but a few. They have been responsible for some great literature and social observations.
@@LynetteA68 No they didn't. You've been conned. Do you always believe everything you see and hear. Are you one of those who think jezus existed, and angels are real too?
And therefore Ron DeSantis, aka: "Ron BeGone" will ban it & burn it if necessary, to prevent Floridians from getting "woke"! GOP's worst fear is that more people... their people... might get 'woke' up B4 elections. If they don't see the truth & pain already, then too comatose to get 'woke up'!
Read the book! It is a scary education. It should smack you right between the eyes that everything in it is a symbol for something else: The farms, for specific countries; the different animals, for different classes of people; the events, for actual historical episodes. It really is extraordinary, a little gem of a book that is a quick and easy read the first time, and a great reread over time.
Remember in 1983 as a 12 year old, asking my English teacher at the time about the book 1984 (I thought it might be sci-fi) and if it was any good. He told me to just read it and all I can say is that it blew my mind! One of the greats, in my opinion.
When I was 11 in 1970 and had just moved to the “big school” or secondary modern as they were then known prior to the comprehensive revolution, we had a rather attractive youngish science teacher - Miss Bolinski or something vaguely Slavic - and after one class several of us were talking to her and “books we needed to read” came up. She gave us three, Animal farm, 1984 and Brave New World - an excellent primer for our dystopian future.
@@curtrice6060Democracy is better than the alternative! Democracy has checks and balances where the alternative is an authoritarian one-party system. We the people have caused the issues we face today. Get involved with your politicians and if they don't speak for you, vote them out.
Oops, I remember that I was started asked to read this book in Winter 1983. But not so serious as after being part of the curriculum when taking the more serious English class: Literature in 1984, amazed me.
'YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY' - George Orwell; a man well beyond his time. If he could see us now he would be glad he is deceased. Thankyou George for your work.
Orwell never said anything of the kind. He would have hated that right wing governments and fascism is on the rise in Russia, USA, China, India, UK, France, Brazil, and dozens of other countries. Orwell fought for socialism against fascism and he'd be appalled nobody is fighting fascism today.
I didn't say it was easier then, throughout history mankind has had to struggle through life unless they were wealthy enough to own their own houses etc. @@jamesroof6150
Plans of mice and men. I think you are right but not all goes as planned sometimes and the results can be constant disaster limitation I guess. @@dawnadriennetaylor970
When George Orwell wrote, Big Brother is watching he was correct back then, I wonder if he only knew how right he was, and how much worse it would get, Freedom is in the eye of the beholder. He was a great writer and thinker.
It seems that we have been living some aspects of ‘1984’ during the passed few years - disinformation, thought police, censorship, re-education, big brother … it’s a book with deeply sobering warnings of how society should never ever become ….yet what have we seen these last few years or in fact for decades?
I read 1984 in my youth. I’ve always looked carefully at my governments publications. Yet , 😩 the 99% freemen , have become slaves to the oligarchs. The people I voted to send to Washington, have never represented the 99%. Congress has always been with the oligarchs. Sound like 1984 ? 🥺😩😱💩🤠🤑
@@cilla268 1984 if you read it and Orwell. You will see it's a critique of Stalinism and unfettered free market capitalism. Please while we are reading Orwell's book's ... Read Homage to Catalonia. Once you do, you will see more of Orwell's ideological position laid bare. TLDR any of Orwell's books. Orwell was an ardent Revolutionary Socialist and Anti-Fascist
Orwell was undoubtedly was one of the great minds of his period. He really yet to be discovered. His book, " coming up for air" also a great book. RIP.
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it" - George Orwell. He was a great writer and I'm glad we read Animal Farm, 1984, and his essays in high school in the '60s. He has had a very positive impact on my life.
But what if the victor does not want you to lose it completely and bribes your own officials to wage it forever and ever to give himself a perpetual good guy's role?
Recall hearing much 'gossip' around the Sunday afternoon card games, and singing around the piano my large family indulged in...we children hid under the long tablecloth to listen...word was "top hats were invented to make the small elite mentality assume greater height of much envied lower class men'.
I read Animal Farm and 1984 in high school. I really enjoyed both but at the time didn’t realise how prophetic they were. Later I travelled the world - sometimes together with a leading investigative journalist. I can now see that the times George Orwell wrote about are upon us. It's important more people begin to wake up to what is happening.
Great video. No overwhelming music. No dead spaces, chock full of non stop facts as they are known. Thumbs up. Keep up the good work. 1984 began sometime between 1947 and 1953, we can't be sure exactly when. The written novel, 1984, has become Goldstein's book, out there in the open for all of us to read but fail to comprehend.
He was and is one of the true great humans of his time ! A true humanitarian who understood the corrupt empire and corrupt politicians warmongers and working class social conditions of his times !!!
"Our society is run by madmen, for mad ends. I think we are being run by madmen, to a mad end, and I think I am being locked up as a madman for saying that. That's the insane part of it." John Lennon
One of the most influential authors of our time. I've read thousands of books, and The Animal Farm and 1984 have made a significant impression on me like few other books!
You could say the same about Brave New World author Aldous Huxley being insightful, but the Huxley family were all eugenists and elitists who wanted the population to be controlled . Similarly Orwell was from the establishment elites (ancestor of the Earl of Westmorland) and seemed to be shoed into establishment jobs and hardly worked really. I'm just giving an alternative opinion , as I believe it's unhealthy for everyone to have the same view. The last few years have shown that no matter how eloquent the speaker and no matter how much they say what we want to hear, ALWAYS ALWAYS be a critical thinker, maybe Orwell would be happy with such a view, maybe not
In my 70s and having lived in 4 countries and travelled extensively having been born into the slums of industrial 1950s Great Britain. I have watched Orwell's predictive novel slowly take shape in the realities of the 20th & early 21st Centuries. His cumulative experiences from birth to becoming a writer illustrate the man's acute understanding of the human animal far beyond that of most. I personally agree that the label of 'genius' as it relates to him, his accomplishments & vision, is therefore apt and deserving.
Incredible. All of the writers from the 30’s 40’s understood what wad going to happen. I can only say that I pray we are all strong enough to push back. Thank you!
It was what was happening then, and he wrote about what he witnessed at that time. Just like all writers then, now and in future who turn reality into fictional characters. The movie Escape from New York, was probably a book (Gone with the Wind etc) turned movie when I was a kid, and if u look at NYC, Bronx etc in 60s thru early 90s...mercy. Same with other big cities like Miami in the 80s where I grew up. High crime big time in these cities. And ppl 'fleeing' big time, like I did when I was 19 yr old. Miami however, has come back in an epic way with a positive vibe that's dramatically different than when I was a kid. In other words...we have history, all over the internet for everyone to view and learn as to not repeat.
@@annemaria5126 Emotions make us human. Learning to manage and communicate your emotions is called maturity and helps you to empathize with others. That's not weakness; it's an immense strength. The lack of emotional awareness and empathy is a cancer on our society.
Fabulous, what to say more. This informative documentary on the life of George Orwell literally blew my mind. It may be incomprehensible to most my story parallels George Orwell. Tragedy unbeknownst to me, has struck at it’s core, not only to me in a life driven by outside madness, as well George Orwell. At 70 as a world traveler with a 20 year college, university education, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, stories I can tell. Thank you ❤
He wrote cautionary tales of absolute authoritarian regimes, foreseeing many aspects of modern dystopian society over the last few decades. I consider him one of the greatest visionary free thinkers of the 20th century.
Agreed. Yet a good number of folks will read exactly the same stuff by Orwell, that we have, and turn it around to mean, “the left has it all straight” and it’s the right wingers that are heading us into this absolute authoritarian regime. (even a good number of folks giving responses here) This is just so weird to me. 1984 doesn’t seem particularly hard to follow.
@@Do-U-Know-me00 that's news to me. Did he really? Why would he emphasize the inhumane aspects of a dystopian society in dramatic ways if he wanted to portray a desirable scenario?
@@Brain_Sync I completely agree with you, but like I said in my post before, some people will take George Orwell's writings, and somehow turn it all around to say the opposite of what we think he was saying ? Weird, right ? Crazy world.
Everyone talks about Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, but I have to say, the work which spoke to me most was "Why I Write". It's no novel or epic, but just an essay. But still, as a hopeful writer, it made me feel so incredibly seen. It discusses the aspiration for intellectualism while harboring a disdain for intellectuals, a struggle between being proud of your own culture while embracing others, and to acknowledge biases without passing a judgement on said bias.
also the road to wigan pier. were he travels through 1930's northern england. and is disgusted by the grinding poverty of the working class and laments their propensity to vote for the people that keep them in poverty.
Wonderful biographical documentary on George Orwell. I learned so much about his life and literary works. His name and his two most famous novels will live on (as long as they're not rewritten by the thought police!).
US FBI director confessed to spying on 240.000 Americans for no other reason than that he could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Canada does the same, they have a base in Otawa that listens to all Cdn social media! Base Litrium During the truckers protest the Cdn military were flying over Ottawa and recording conversations on the streets, they also did it near Niagara Falls. BIG BROTHER is listening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I expect RCMP/CSIS at my door one day soon. They hate the TRUTH.
Orwell reflected on 1930s and 40s Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union and imagined a future in which totalitarian regimes would be able to use more sophisticated methods to control and shape the thought processes of their populations. The intended darkness of his work lies in the possibility or inevitability that individual human beings with natural critical faculties will be molded into empty vessels that simply absorb whatever information is poured into them, if that same information with no nuance or different points of view, is poured into them again and again until they become soaked and mentally incapable of absorbing any other kind of information, even if they had access to it. For the small minority that displays any kind of skepticism, sophisticated terror is employed. Not the kind of terror that makes you keep your mouth shut - the kind of terror that rewires your brain into truly believing something that you didn't believe and removing your individuality or autonomy as a human being. And very importantly, for Orwell, all ultimately for no reason or benefit other than the perpetuation of power for it's own sake and for the comfort and benefit of the individuals at the very top who are running the machine.
So sadly very actually Factual todaze globally with handheld screens Selfs deleting while programming 24/7/365. And world creed religion of defacto Omnicide.
His prescience is astounding. Not only is he describing Britain's trajectory, but the trajectory of the entire Anglosphere abn detail and the West in general.
I bought 1984 when I was in Cuba that was in the year. Of 1995 sadly I gave a loan of it to someone in Ethiopia Addis Ababa simulator to Cuba no books to buy somehow I saw it there and bought it. Sorry can’t be loaned or leave my side now 83 years of age it has become my little treasure living in Dublin Ireland
I had finished 1984 on the 31st December 1984. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Now I am 88 I can see history repeating itself through the ages. He had a lot of insight.
Wonderful to hear about his real life and achievements in this way - he is not the only person to see where things are going but he is the one that sacrificed his life on a journey that was shortened too soon - with the skills and experiences he became more than a genius and writer good bless his spirit and good bless us all
What a story! What a life! I was just short of the age of 5 when Eric Arthur Blair, aka George Orwell died at the young age of 46. I've had his pen name burnt into my memory ever since reading Animal Farm when I was in secondary school and I've never forgotten the message that it conveyed to me. I'm 78 now and feel so sad that his life was so relatively short, however, he packed quite a bit into those short years. Thank you for this documentary, and I have now subscribed.
This is the BEST comment here I think. Orwell could clearly identify totalitarian states and the evil that they did BUT he had no awareness (or vision) of what was needed in a democracy to avoid becoming like that. He seemed utterly unaware of the achievements, in the 1930s, of people like Mickey Savage in NZ or Tommy Douglas in Saskatchewan or FDR in the USA and later John Curtin in Australia. He seems unaware of what was happening in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland in the 1930s as they advanced their democracies with PR voting, multi-member seats, a written constitution, curbs on the power of the rich, support for trade unions etc. He had no practical suggestions for how the UK could advance to become the socialist state he dreamed of. Hence the UK subsequently had Margaret Thatcher winning 3 elections under FPTP voting to crush the UK working class and Norway had Gro Brundtland winning 3 elections under PR voting to give the Norwegian working class a society that Orwell could only dream of.
It takes unique authoral vision, imagination and wit for analogies to create an allegorical beast fable like Animal Farm, a cautionary roman a clef to then (and past) totalitarian realities, as of a tyrannical ancien regime being overthrown by reform minded revolutionaries, who then themselves gradually become as oppressive (or worse than) the regimes they replaced.
Orwell’s books are an excellent depiction and study in human psychology and behaviour. I share his sentiments which were true in his time and still read as well in our current climate. Brilliant writer. Thank you for this interesting video.
Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος, romanized: kháos) is the mythological VOID STATE PRECEDING THE CREATION OF the universe (the cosmos) in Greek CREATION MYTHS. In Christian theology, the same term is used to refer to THE GAP or the abyss created by the separation of heaven and earth. Etymology Greek kháos (χάος) means 'emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss', related to the verbs kháskō (χάσκω) and khaínō (χαίνω) 'gape, BE WIDE OPEN', from Proto-Indo-European cognate to Old English geanian, 'to gape', whence English yawn. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness. Pherecydes of Syros (fl. 6th century BC) interprets chaos as WATER, LIKE SOMETHING FORMLESS THAT CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED. * 👆What images come to your mind after reading of all this mess of words? Accented with capital letters words (by me) are clues or KEYs, certainly. It's how I see synchronisms or identical points of true knowl*edge. So, chaos is not the VOID STATE PRECEDING THE CREATION OF “the universe (the cosmos)”, it’s an initial state of the UNIVERSE - before people began to create blocks for the understanding or NATURAL feeling of its initial state: so-called ORDER or any other kind of “orders”, which are blocking ends for that LIVE state of ONENESS. See, the questions of - “from what every*thing takes the beginning” and “by what every*thing will be ended”. This, actually one question, must stay open. ALL*WAYS. Forever, ever, ever and after. It’s a tube, a channel, if to imagine it in 3D vision. When people stop blocking or trying to close “the beginning” and “the end” points of one LIVE tube, then only, they can under*stand, finally, what is it - real chaos, or initial state of the Universe. It’s not “an abyss or infinite darkness”, though it may seem so, but it would be only a vision of “somebody”, not the true vision at all, etc., - just a version, but not uni*versal point of view - it’s not about Now&Here understanding at all. It comes from some points of view, from people, who live in the labyrinth of versions, most likely, and who are choosing the most comfortable (for their way of thinking) dead-end. To under*stand - for me, this word calls an image of standing closer to the core of the Golden Mean. But, is it a center or horiZon still? 💫😂
@lifearttimes Orwell wrote a book that politicians used as the template of what should be. it was no way a prophetic book. Men in power that knew nothing thought the book showed them the way. Stupid people.
I played “Boxer” the horse in a play adaptation of animal farm at school. It inspired me to become an actor. Orwell’s political and social insight are relevant today. Politicians are constantly using media to tell “alternative truths” to violate, manipulate and gain power. Look at the ridiculous idealistic Brexit and the US presidential campaigns. In my opinion Orwell was one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
As an American teacher, I used Animal Farm in the classroom for years because I never found anything better. It is a jewel of a book, and one I coordinated with the history department when it covered that time period. The kids had a positive reaction, and formed study groups to try to determine essay questions I might pose. They invariably came up with a good one I had not considered.🤭 It was an exciting classroom tool, and something every American voter should read before the next election.
I would not include Brexit in that. Brexit was UK citizen's unhappiness with percieved unfair trade deals and subversion of UK's rights to EU mandates. The move towards globalism where a cadre of rich elites and their pet politicians potentially manage every aspect of your daily life,eg no national interests, is seen as a real threat by many like Orwell's 1984. Think the CCP on a global level.
@@coloringwdeborahl.mcdonald7621Orwell said when asked why A Brave New World was so different to his view of a future dystopian collective, he replied that Huxley's version would be only a temporary manifestation of the collective future. He also said in his final interview as a warning to humanity. "Imagine a boot stamping on a human face... FOREVER!"
The idealistic brexit was the British people avoiding the boot in the face forever! The fact that we're getting the boot in the face forever is our government not wanting our freedom from the eu, therefore not implimenting brexit in it's entirety,
I read1984 in my teen years and at the time i thought it was a great book, but quite outrageous story line. Little did i know we would be literally living through those times! Its quite frightening!
Whoever put this movie tribute together as a history of George Orwell, "A WARNING TO MANKIND", really did a magnificent job of keeping the images representative of the times and places or time of year or times of war time history and allowed this to be made and enjoyed and not boring ! Beautiful landscapes, beautiful shorelines and waves as well as the either digitally or via drone footage made every part of this presentation very enjoyable to watch. Even including hardly before seen footage or pictures of historical figures and dictators or very early photographed films of fighting armies depicted. A very knowledgeable and informative historic Documentary! I was very impressed . I'd give it an EXCELLENT Rating !! *****
I thank you for this documentary. I also, loved George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm." Although, I go with Aldoux Huxley's "Brave New World," it is really what has been happening now in all societies everywhere for many years.❤ 🙏🌎
Brave New World requires that we have a Post-Scarcity Society & that rich elites share their wealth with the general populace. 1984 described a Post-Discontent Society which only required the elites to create a permanent state of emergency (wars make that real easy), the ability to control the information the people saw & the willingness to use force against dissenters.
1984 and animal farm were mandatory to read for me in high school. The meaning of them didn’t sink in for me until i started seeing cancel culture start here in the US. And then I saw the gov start using it against groups of people. I feel like a pushback is gaining steam here right now against “protected speech” and I think it will be remembered as a historic time for America. I hope one day my country will become a respectable place again, it has been so eye opening to witness the 21st century unfold.
Having lived in many countries and circumstances I see the woke groups canceling history..are they afraid to think and learn from the past? Also the control of people by fear has taken us back to loss of independent freedom and thinking by a lot if our population..sad..including in my own family.
When you know the history & a very short history at that, you will realise that America was never a respectable country once the whites arrived! It was however a respectable continent when the North American Indians ruled the land
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.
Be glad if you're not a spoiled brat who was taught they deserve everything and will take from anyone. Truly I tell you their reward they already have.
@@toomanydonuts I was just a teenager back in the Communist era, but I was fully aware of the terror they forced upon us, and I'm sad to see the same forming now in the US and other Western countries.
I discovered George Orwell’s two most powerful novels (Animal Farm, and 1984), in the coffee houses of the early 1960s. I had no confusion regarding the intentions of the writer, and found both books compelling, as well as plausible warnings. I was unaware of the author’s history before today, and wish to thank you, once again, for creating such a thorough and unbiased biography of this very interesting man. You make me want to re-read his works, knowing of the experiences that shaped him as a writer.🖤🇨🇦
If you haven't read 'Road to Wigin Pier', I'd HIGHLY recommend it - for at least the first half, although his criticisms and commentary on socialism in the 1930's UK are also on point. The way people worked and lived in the mines and in those communities were astonishingly bad and worth reading about.
@@Chordonblue Thank you, I will take a good deep ramble through his earlier works…including those you mentioned. As soon as I had a regular job (at 14 years old), I determined to buy one book with each pay check. I bough everything from literary classics to modern poetry, and everything between. Now in my 70s, I still buy books, and have a proper library in my home. Some of my books are old and valuable, and friends, as well as authors come to research in my library. I cannot sleep until I have read, reading is a necessity in my life.🖤🇨🇦
I remember our High School English class had us read and discuss "Animal Farm". It is the only story I remember from that 1968 class because it really made us think. I heard that the leftist babies think it needs to be censored out of schools because it is too disturbing for children. George would probably not be surprised....
@@bluewaters3100 Just think how hard the students of today, who will not be exposed to things our parents were not afraid would rot our brains will have it. They are not being trained to think…they are being given only one side of the story…with less and less in the way of options. We are the lucky ones.🖤🇨🇦
@@bluewaters3100In the US, it's the far right who seem to thing Orwell's works are too upsetting for their children in high school to read. It's the far-right who are banning Orwell and Huxley from high school libraries and demanding they be removed from public libraries. When I was in high school in the US (1960-1963), they were required reading, and thankfully enthusiastically discussed in class. I'm grateful I grew up in that era, not in the present one. But I'm concerned about the rampant far-right propaganda being shoved down my great-grandchildren's throats and the limited education they are receiving.
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I think of him often when I hear terms such as "fake news" and "alternative facts". He had a canny knack for understanding and predicting self-serving human deceptions.
ITS WORSE THAN HE WROTE .BECAUSE WE ALL ( NOT ALL) READ THE BOOK AND COULD SEE IT COMING.. NO FREE SPEECH ALL THE PEOPLE DIVIDED AND THE RICH PIGGIES ALWAYS WIN
Authoritarian rule has only ever lasted a few decades at most in all of human existence. As soon as people can see the difficulties in their lives, they automatically rise up sooner or later. Or at least they have every time in the past.
I remember 25 years ago, teachers assigned us 1984 as required reading, and had us write a book report about it. Quarter of a century later and it has gone from being required reading to being banned. Censorship is a key component in indoctrination. Great video👍🏻
It was a Wonderful documentary. Thank you SO much. As an ex pat ( having to live in Boring Australia) living in Melbourne to be near family, I am ever thankful for any literary uplifting. I had to study both Animal Farm and 1984 at school. Sadly hardly anyone here would know what I was talking about. Of course me being about 15 at the time, I would not have known how utterly important these books would be to prophesy the future . We surely have been experiencing 1984 fir the last 3 years. What a very clever writer, and observer , with tragic ill health all the time. I could not enjoy anything in sleepy Australia without the wonderful things I can access via my phone to connect me to mental ac
Enjoyed George Orwell ( Eric Arthur Blair) life story tremendously. He did and achieved a lot in his short life. My heart went out to him with all he went through he definitely had something looking after him. He traveled extensively so reminded me of myself with all my travels on 2 different countries. I was drawn to his drive to get things done at all cost. In those days diseases seemed to prevail especially tuberculosis with no medicine to thwart it, it overwhelmed a human being eventually to destroy the spirit like cancer. He was s gifted author. I came across this story about Orwell suddenly on RU-vid & it made a huge impression on me. Thank you for sharing the story with me.
He lived an incredible and intriguing life and career very short but full filling life seen and experienced 2 WW’s and witnessed humanity at its worst and weakest in the making of world history he is a true inspiration to many people.
My wife and I have been Orwell fans for many years, for me it was reading Burmese days and his essays that made me see his genius! Such an important prophetic voice in these times we are living!
Thank you very much for this story of George Orwell's life and work. I first read 1984 and Animal Farm as a teen-ager, in Australia, in the late 1970s. I've never forgotten the impact he had on my thinking. Along with other authors - Gulag Archipelago, Brave New World, Lord of the Rings, Dune so many great writers ... We don't have them now in this 21st century. But we do have the legacy of men like George Orwell in PRINT..
I have reread Animal Farm and 1984 in the past decade, after they were required reading in high school in the 70s. It quite shocked me how many things from 1984 had occurred, not exactly, but pretty spot on. For example, being monitored by the thought police and being traced through our own keystrokes. It is interesting that he chose a life path that exposed him to the authoritarianism of the elites, while also living as one of the common folk.
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I was inspired as an English schoolboy by ‘Animal farm’ and ‘1984’. In my 50’s I wrote a book entitled ‘Face the wind’, available through Amazon. Thanks for this overview of George Orwell.
Orwell's dissatisfaction and disillusion during his time working for the ministry of information and the BBC as well as world political stage at that time and it's disorder must have also inspired him in writing Animal Farm followed by 1984. A genius with a clear vision of the future.
Did you know that the BBC worked with agents from MI5 for more than 50 years in order to vet job applications. The aim was to keep out socialists and those having left-wing views. This was done in room 105 at the BBC.
He moved around a lot during his life and gained a lot of experience in and out of the military. He also had spoken with a lot of people and written a few books whether they were successful or not. Spending time dressed as a poor man in the slums of London was incredible but it taught him a lot about the sorry state of people who could not rise above such poverty. However all of this prepared him for his greatest work, taking his observations about the problems of his day and using it to write a book about the future in 1984 This book is still read and talked about and we see it coming true 40 years later in the 22nd century.
