The Horrific Future of '1984' Explained 

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Silo has been interesting, while not the same they have the same vibe and feel to it as 1984

I would love more videos like this one, possibly more George Orwell, or Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" short story. Keep up the good work!

The book ends with the appendix and index. You find out the book is written by a historian post 2050. The systems had failed, the proles took over because the party couldn't even understand them. All of the art and history the party tried to destroy was saved. People were free. Look it up.

Perfect depiction of Orwell. He fought in Spanish civil war with the anarchist communists and was betrayed by statist communists who would rather side with Franco than give up chance for state control. Everything he wrote reeks of immense hate for fascism and what today would be called Marxism-Leninism and Stalinism.

I think this is less doublethink and more Idiocracy 😑

That Party, as they ban the book: "1984, all those silly legends. They die today."

A book written by a socialist who fought in the Spanish civil war on the communists side, was terrified of stalin's version of communism after his unit was wiped out by his own side, worked as the censor for the BBC in order to suppress his own ideology and point out people with his views or similar to the government, saw the west as becoming more like stalin's regime in order to fight him which became the premise of his book. Who stayed a devoted socialist even when targeted and censored by socialist regimes for being anti communist while also being censored by capitalist regimes for being anti capitalist only having it change when the cia decided to help him print his book in order to destabilize the USSR. And now 1984 is dumbed down and used to label any liberal ideas as totalitarian communism while not understanding that the opposite side sees the exact same thing in reverse. Christian conservative parents getting the book banned all over the place while your average conservative holds it as the thing the liberal elite dont want you to know. While realistically nearly everything invented in the book wasnt a prediction of the future but a look at Orwells own time and his experiences and understanding of the past. Doublespeak, newspeak etc are all not new concepts, these things have always existed with humanity but with less fancy names, doublespeak is just a bold face lie, and newspeak is just the change of language overtime. The actual scary part is that in 1984 all of this doesnt occur with time and culture as happens naturally but by decree of the state which people believe without question. I often find it funny how many of the biggest fans of 1984 recite terms from the book as if a bible, which is exactly the behavior of the followers of the party in the same book lol

@@sookendestroy1 Yeah Orwell was a Trotskyist.

This literally happened in communist china during mao Zedong's rule.

@Darth Vader agreed, thats why communists are scum. Not only do they want to take away your private property but they also want your thoughts

@Darth Vader happening everywhere right now

Which is the most dystopian state 1)1984 Oceania 2)HOI4 TNO Burgundian state 4)scp unlondon 5)north korea (real life one) 6)nazi germany(man in the high castle)

@@Trollge398 Oceania.

For example, some people believe that a trans-woman is a biological woman.

Men can be women and women can be men

​@@DaniG.German883"conservatives are very tolerant and good-hearted!!!" "Conservatives wont tolerate anything that goes against traditional ideas of america"

@@zaviear “leftist are very tolerant””leftist love free speech and diversity of opinion”

@@DaniG.German883 you didnt even made the ideas contradictory so it could be "doublethink" lolll

bro couldn't watch 10 minutes before commenting. yikes.

That's not a happy triumphant ending dude.

Loving big brother? Or simply submissive? There is a difference

@@pitchforkpeasant6219he loved him by the end thats the point

@@pitchforkpeasant6219they made him genuinely love him

north korea

I wish this was further discussed. All we know for certain is what Winston tells us from his own experience. Any information from the Party should be viewed skeptically at best.

@@blakemorris2328 And even his "old memories" can be easily morphed just from being in the Ministry of Truth for so long he just believes many of the Party's lies such as Oceania and Airstrip One is a part of it.

@@blakemorris2328 That man there officer, he questioned the Party.

Are youdescribing the status of the United Kingdom post Empire or post Brexit?😂

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Agreed, to an extent - superficially speaking, anyway. All authoritarianism is inherently leftist. Groups which claim to be "conservative" that seek to increase the power of the state are leftists disguised as conservatives. In the US, Neocons are the epitome of that phenomenon, and are one among many important constituents of the Uniparty, comprising nearly all Democrats and many Republicans.

When the movie with John Hurt came out, the reviewer in the NYT said that the the chief tool of the regime was language, which can be employed just as effectively under a tyrannical capitalism as under Soviet communism. (For those who forget, the POTUS at that time was Ronald Reagan.)

Tell that to the right wingers and anti semites in this comment section. Jesus what a shit show

@@mumsyxcRonald Reagan was famously anti large government

There are no sides.

That's more a statement on you. I remember books I read 30 years later. It's called a memory.

@@JBBostWell for me 1984 is pretty much the only book i can remember reading when i was 16. I know i had read more, but couldn´t name any specific ones anymore.

@@JBBost yes it shows that book had a impact on his mind. memory is a funny thing its impossible to remember everything so the mind filters out useless junk and helps us remember more important stuff like things that revoke strong feelings traumas or information needed for skills that we use often. So if you really remember books you read 30 years ago it speaks at valume about you.. it shows you have must lived a very lackluster life to remember such things :)

Similar here, just for me it was the first time. I pushed reading it away for years now and right now I'm on the last pages.

I did two weeks ago. I thought I was done with this book but I guess not

I haven't read 1984 for awhile, why would saving a cigarette for later result in torture? Not that the Thought Police would need any resemblance of reason. hehe

And then his children went to the library to gain knowledge from books. Unfortunately, every book was gone. But at least the economy was vibrant. Unfortunately, it was not. There were no workers to build our buildings. We now understand, we live in an authoritarian dystopian.

@@PhilipDK5800 in short it is a sign of pleasure, pleasure is an individual thing, individual things are against the party rules. Cigarettes are just for pleasure same as alcohol and should not exist as the party wants to destroy all pleasure but here come the meaning of double think. You give you party members something to enjoy, they are not allowed to enjoy it but they are requested to use it, if someone enjoyes it or is showing enjoyment he is guilty of a thought crime and therefore a counter revolutionist! simple as that. pleasure for pleasures sake is against the party rules and a thought crime as is sex for sex sake and not just for reproduction!

I believe it's specifically the face of the FIRST person to rebel :)

My theory was that he was just a random actor, but your theory sounds much more like something the party would do.

After all, Goldstein the "enemy" turns out to have been one of the authors of "the Book", so the opposite could have been done...

That's ridiculouos Sounds like exactly the kind of thing they would do.

It's an idealized younger picture of Emmanuel Goldstein. That's my theory.

It's relatable in the same sense that having unlimited access and control over all the world's resources is relatable to someone with a dollar's worth in their pocket. Perhaps a tad more, unfortunately.

Just like the Nazi propaganda machine, the Kremlin's present propaganda and the GOPs war on truth and freedom.

Where do you live?

Cancel Culture is thriving as some get upset about M&Ms not be sexy enough or crying about the Barbie movie

It's happening.

My grandmother used to say..."If the government says that there are enough potatoes....that means you better stock up piles of potatoes because soon there won't be any". It's so relatable. Government always lies to keep the sheeple in place. I also keep a tape on my laptop's camera.

61,read it when I was 15. The scary part is the slow drip towards that reality. We have the right to free speech, unless that speech is considered violence and thus banned.

well u fucked up because the real dystopia that we are sliding into is brave new world

Today the. Uni Party that runs All CONUS only Gives the masses free Speech to scream and yell for what the Uni Party believes in. Just look as the public Fool system brainwash the young to their demonic ideas. Police State control is the computers and worse the damnable cell phones that know where you are and reinforced by 80 per cent of masses who believe what Big DC and controlled media tells them.WAR IS Peace Peace is War as the last empire strives to seize world control with bases in 80. countries. 1984 Is here.

hurr burr the jews are coming to steal my testicles

Well that's terrifying

Well that’s gonna keep me awake at night

But like youd be able to tell? Like the proles in 1984 know whats happening to them to an extent but cant do anything against it. Those people supposedly would atleast know if information is being changed etc

@@jonathanreyes5254 I believe the idea they were going for was that the party gets smarter and subtler until people didn’t know they were being oppressed

​@@mrkuilko Yes

Yes, but... historical account by whom?

@Pills _ - You'll have to wait for _1984: Part 2_ to come out. I have no idea what's taking the writer so long!

@@BugRibhe’s currently suffering from a small case of death

@@pills- Michael Malice, author of The White Pill and Dear Reader

@@JH-wi2xr Very serious. Almost always fatal in such cases...

lol

I love big brother. I never would have found sub sub or blue karma if he wasnt watching and listening

And that one album by snowpoint lounge👌

@@BEHEMONAUT you will never find yourself

"They’ve adopted an ideology of believing that controlling ideas and thoughts literally transforms reality." You have just described James Lindsay's interpretation of Left Wing Ideology in a nutshell.

@@clbrans1 Who is he and why should I care? Also elaborate

@@justasplanned8023 Former left leaning atheist pushed to the right due to the overton window shifting. He digs up a lot of literature that explains most of the ideology behind the activism that has been popping up over the last decade. Marxism(and the ideologies born from it) is a repackaging of Hegelianism, which was heavily influenced by Hermeticism and some Gnosticism. The key concept here is the Principle of Correspondence "As above, so below; as below, so above." Marx took a similar approach to how culture and material conditions influence each other. His entire belief was that through remaking man into a socialist creature(man's original state according to him), we would usher in a communist utopian society. Changing reality by controlling thoughts and ideas.

@@clbrans1 In no way shape or form is Hegelian dialectics or Marxism about altering human thought. Unless you think any and all ideas are attempts to “control human thought” - which technically is true, in a way. You’re either massively misreading this man’s perspective, or he’s just a complete idiot. How has the Overton window shifted and forced him to the right exactly? I hear this kind of stupidity a lot

Hinduism is for a great part like that : on one side the acceptance of a caste society no one can change for the better for himself or for all, on the other side the belief that you can change reality by working on your own thoughts in perfect obedience to the Brahmin clergy (a model of absolute corruption).

An understanding of the 20th and 21st century requires a reading of Huxley combined with Orwell. Huxley had a better nose for the direction that mass media would go in and was more closely observing the way that marketing and advertising where being used to examine ways to manipulate and propagadize populations. Huxley might have understood the way the media was turned into a device to divide people and to create confusion with misleading "both sides" framing of social and political forces. One way to divide people is to allow factionalizing forces, like fascism, to take deep root. The media carried a lot of water for fascists and ethnostate nationalists and helped normalize their rhetoric. Which in turn massively aided their recruiting and radicalization efforts. The division has been further powered by the typical fascist tactic of contextualizing its victims as powerful enemies who are secretly in control of society - i.e. "see these minority and disenfranchised groups without power / who also have all the power and are the actual fascists dominating society". The old "the enemy is simultaneously strong / weak" strategy.

Ironically tbh since Orwell was a Trotskyist and was a product of factionalism.

Afraid of civil war? We'll kick our own ass again, just like last time.

@@zubbworks Or clean house at long last. It's the people against the government in most nations now- and in the US, the government is vastly outnumbered by armed citizens who are becoming more defiant, and the feds are digging their own grave even deeper by alienating potential enforcers with wokeness in the armed forces. Dunno about the rest of the world, but America's chances of winning back its freedom are looking better everyday.

Thank you. Somebody else out there gets it.

"ugh, this is literally 1984" -🤓

My favorite part of the book is when Big brother says " literally 1984" and 1984s all over 1984

Those are not in the book! Has some Winston Smith been messing with the book you were reading?

@@mumsyxc that joke went over your head didn't it

@@Dr._Heinz_Doofenshmirtz It sure must have gone over my head :/

Recently there's an AI that can predict what your thinking by scanning your brain activity. We can imagine what will happen if that technology progresses (scanning is real time and at a distance) and in the wrong hands.

​@@patnor7354 yes, I've liked few comments there like thousands of people like me, and now I'm shot, but I've supported lgbt, so they changed my password and I ressurected, but shot me again Welcome to North Korea, your bank account is no problem when you don't have money and internet.

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Can't read my poker face 😑

“Speak to Me”

Oceania is either a nuclear hermit state Britain, or literally the entire earth. That’s why I love this book, you just don’t know

Oceania is like North Korean

The prisoners being executed seem to be real : "A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street. In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together. Their sad, Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks utterly incurious." If it were completely isolated where would this endless supply of Mongolian prisoners of war be coming from? Big brother is everywhere!

@@zardoz2006 they come form the other territories and are maybe rebels or just poor souls selected to maintain the lie. Similarly people from Airstrip 1 could be paraded in China as “dirty oceanians”

@@zardoz2006 It’s a good point, but the theme of one having one’s face changed comes up so often in the book that I would say even the first hand sight of asiatic people could not be verified by a character.

He was a very scary villain because he could come across as a good guy, and show his true colors only in the Ministry of Love.

@@mumsyxc True.

@@mumsyxc my fav thing is that obrien never really gave winston any reason to think he was a good guy in the first part of the book, instead winston is so deprived of genuine connection he pushes his own agenda on to obrien as a way to legitimise his own rebellious thoughts as a collective experience to relieve himself of his disruption from the norm. its evidnt i the first two minute hate when winston describes what he sees in obriens blank stare, when in reality he has always been cold and calculated. its something that really shows the corruption the party pushes onto its people.

His true maliciousness was when he brought up the rats .. he cracked the hell out of my guy 😔

He has so many quotable lines despite only appearing at the end of the novel

The funny thing is that the corruption and incompetence is precisely what prevented the 1984 scenario from fully taking place, even in the USSR or China. In the end the elites were more interested in corruption than the sheer exercise of power. North Korea is probably the closest, with the Eternal President taking the place of Big Brother.

Go ahead, u leave first

​@@sosadagod6963 huh?

​@@sosadagod6963how about we all go out together

@@sosadagod6963 You do realise that the inevitability of your torture by the government is no less than that of this person, right? Those in power are 60-80 years old, they will die in 20-30 years. You will not die. They will try to kill you before they die. Regardless of who you are a totalitarian government will affect your life drastically.

Not more relevant than when written, it's original title being 1948 for a reason (objected to by the publishers)

Not really. The problems facing society today are very different from those in the book.

@@r31n0ut really? no one is trying to re-write the past? No one is using double speak? Media isn't being used as a tool of the government? We're just building up to the 3rd world war.

Nah it’s always been there like in the 80s when Reagan gave weapon to the taliban and the news said bin laden fighting for freedom we all know what they actually fought for now the only place 1984 is more relevant is Russia and china because the government there had gotten more authoritarian

@@r31n0ut no they aren’t mate

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Seriously, you've gotten so insanely good.

Same here. Also really enjoyed the random Elden ring lore vid a while back.

Well they do claim to be socialist so there should be no defacto leader as true socialism would mean all men being equal, any leader would have to be either a figurehead (like Big Brother), a vanguard (like Lenin "We rule only until the machines of government can be given to the people", Stalin conveniently forgot this bit when Lenin died) or an entire party (like the CCP after Mao's death. Until Deng Xiaoping decided China should have a leader after all and he should be the next one.) By having a figurehead instead of a real person it does suggest that Ingsoc are committed to socialism, or at least want the proles to believe that they are, though as we've seen over the past century with the likes of Stalin and Deng socialist regimes often become dictatorships for any man ambitious enough to grab for power, so I wouldn't be surprised if 'Big Brother' is just a face to keep the proles happy while the 15% of the population that belong to the party have a real human leader that is unknown to the proles.

Civil service?

Real life doesn't work like that though. If there really was a power vacuum at the top whatever top military commander would stage a coup and fill that in, as happens in real life in nations in which the central president or leader or prime minister is absent. A committee can't keep a large nation together without military backing.

Deep state

There are no regulations there are no rules, only the thought police. Like it says in the book if the rules were made known the party’s hypocrisy would be laid bare. You are just supposed to know.

Just ignore what you see and take your -adderall- Joy, and report any dissidents to the -social workers- bobbies.

@@theguybehindyou4762 sorry, no, there is no comparing Joy and Adderall, and do you even know what most social workers do or how they are paid? It's amazing how much ignorance can be packed into so few words.

@@xBINARYGODx He created the statement as a joke, it should be taken as just that, a joke.

@@qinjiwei5058 Ah but the flak is thickest when one is over the target. 😉

agree theres always that

10/10. 💯

THEY THINK 'BIG BROTHER' IS A long form game show! SAD!

Very true - I read it as a teenager myself, and it has stayed with me ever since.

@@iana6713 Me too!

If we didn't already live in a precursor world to ''1984'', this book would be required reading in every school in the country. And yet it's not. I saw the original 1950s movie, when I was a teenager, and shortly after read the book. Both the book and the movie depressed me, and open my eyes to politics. The later version of the movie with Richard Burton was a much glossier version of the first movie, but more accurate to the book.

We have to fight back and not let it happen,in UK now it's quite scary what is actually happening now.

He's saying that Oceania is more like the Soviet Union? Makes sense

Yes, the novel is primarily inspired by Soviet style socialism.

I guess he’s saying that this stuff was going on at the time already?

But 1984 isn't about the future. Its about the present. A strange criticism that someone didn't do what they did not seek to do...

@@Blacksmith__except Orwell never once visited the Soviet Union. He was a whiny little bitch about his side losing an internal power struggle, and decided to sell out to the CIA/MI6 with his writings, only to then get all his friends arrested for holding the same political views he did.

That writing style is called unreliable narrator. This form was used in the book American Psycho but definingly not as well as 1984. Unreliable Narrator where you read a first person perspective story where the Narrator is confused whether the events happening around him/her is real.

I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 and loved it! Why is it banned?

@@matrix-5466 Oi there, I think you've had a little bit too much to think!

@@matrix-5466 I actually don't know myself, my sister has a kid going into school and it came up in conversation how the two books, which when we both went to school were required reading, were now banned.

The banning of books pisses me off to no end. In some cases it’s understandable(looking at you, Mein Kampf), but in most it’s just the overused tool of a bunch of soccer moms and old fuddy duddies who hate fun and haven’t laughed since the fucking renaissance.

Neither of these books are banned

It's like the problem with DNA and cell replication. A copy of a copy of a copy. A mistake of a mistake of a mistake eventually kills an authoritarian.

Eventually the constant warfare will deplete all natural resources. It can't last forever.

Fascists always end up with smaller and smaller circles as they cannibalize each other until it all falls to pieces.

The book ends with the appendix and index. You find out the book is written by a historian post 2050. The systems had failed, the proles took over because the party couldn't even understand them. All of the art and history the party tried to destroy was saved. People were free. Look it up.

There would always be a resistance movement in the shadows as the old people who remember a time before the regime came to power and the rebellious nature of kids wanting their own identity would seek guidance eventually listening to the older generation. yeah sure a large portion would still get brainwashed but the few that would listen to the older people would keep those thoughts, ideas etc with them for their whole lives eventually even after the old generation dies these people despite not knowing what it was like would want what was told to them. telling their kids about it the resistance would shrink at first but then grow eventually after a few decades a resistance movement would burst out of control for the authorities and the regime collapses. It’s a never ending struggle against truth seeking democracy and propaganda authoritarianism.

Me too! The movie isn't great, I recall seeing it but that was many years ago. May revisit but I do love listening to the audiobook, the one published by Blackstone Audio (May, 2007) and read by Simon Pebble is fantastic.

@@michaelandreipalon359 yeah I think so but I’ll see both films just to complete the “journey”

The movie has a great soundtrack. It is a poor rendition of the book, but it is an ok film by itself.

Really? This glossed over so much. The book goes into the reality of living like this. And it's lopelessly dark. As an aside, I interpreted the ending as Winston was unpersoned as would be expected for his treachery.

I noticed that too.

Not “envisioned,” but was screaming a warning of.

Wokism and globalism pushed us here and that’s pushed by the wef. Big brother.

well no, it's more that the Far Right Wing Nuts "Quote" and missuse of 1984, but they either never read or watched it at all or did not understood it when they try to bad mouth "anything woke" like not beeing a racist and use something as slur or gendering is "doublethink" and nuspeak for them. And then they unironicly claim that Immigrants are Lazy and Steal all the Jobs But it's far from a discussion

@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 Id argue the right is pushing for a dystopia lol

Thank you very much for your kind worke and thanks! 💖

1984 could be real if we are not careful with AI (It would be a risk of being a singularity and took over the world)

@@maestro-zq8gu lol, subtly. Hey, I was just trying out new speak… Do you want to get disappeared because this is how you get disappeared

@@chargeminecraft that sounds more along the lines of i have no mouth and i must scream with AM though

You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias - because you're in one. FFS. Just look at the authoritarianism and massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich we witnessed during Covid! While we're forced to wear masks, take jabs, and isolate - the rich and famous are partying at Obamas birthday and the Oscars free of any restrictions.

idk what you mean by subtle there's nothing subtle about it, it's in-your-face pure evil

Even Andor had more of a 1984 feel than usual Star Wars! Karis' diary feels a lot like the book Winston reads in the novel!

There are lots of similarities between Big Brother and Norsefire

Comics only twelve issues super quick read.I th8nk the movies actually pretty faithful

Think

Obrien already said he was gonna execute him

@clydedoris5002 yeah, and this is the thing. Other depictions of dystopia have the protagonist 'win' in some way V in V for Vendetta, John Preston in Equilibrium, etc. But Winstom loses, first mind, then body.

@@clydedoris5002O’Brien implied it but never confirmed it. He also implied that Winston could possibly be given the chance to live a full rest of his life

@@AllegiancyNo, not really. He flat-out tells Winston that he will not be spared, because no one is ever spared, but goes on to say that even if he were allowed to go on and live a full life, it wouldn’t matter, because he would never be the same.

Not necessarily. It can be a psychological death of Winston Smith. His death is up to interpretation, but I read it as the death of Winston’s individualism. ““He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain. He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” The top paragraph is actually incomplete, but it says that Winston is CURRENTLY sitting at the cafe reminiscing in his mind about the hallway, not the other way around.

that seems like a bit of an over-exaggeration. i don't see people getting publicly hanged for saying something, but i suppose i'm lucky to not live in a dictatorship.

Orwell was a visonary! He sent us this book as a WARNING, & how to AVOID such an exaggerated political outcome!

@@pete531 M+F=T!

@@manboy4720you’re seeing it, it’s just not the literal interpretation. People being arrested for Facebook posts. People banned from the digital public square. Pastors arrested for praying in proximity to abortion centers. Etc…. The idea of cancellation and erasure of people’s presence from society is in a figurative sense an allegory for hanging. It reaches the same goal, suppress those that exhibit wrong think.

I see doublethink everywhere, especially in the media and politics. Its as plain as day and people happily go though the mental exercise to internalize it and accept it just like in the book. Its automatic and natural for them too

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And GK Chesterton told us where things were going 50 years earlier. Interestingly, Orwell wrote for GK’s weekly from time to time.

Although Orwell wrote that the population would be under constant scrutiny. He didn’t envision that the population would also have the ability to constantly monitor the Government. Sadly even though, like BLM, where the proles have actual video of Government brutality a lot of the proles and outer party still think Big Brother can do no wrong.

You guys act surprised and scared, not me.

Agreed. I ain’t a snitch and I never will be, luckily, (nearly) everyone else in my area shares the same sentiment as me. I’m not in a libtard zone, yet.

​@wolfetteplays8894 how far are you willing to go on the "no snitching" "rule"?

The movies depiction of a dystopian society is SPOT ON.

Feed was great, My English teacher junior year let me read it. It wasn't part of the curriculum

Thank you for the book suggestion.

1984 has anti-capitalist sentiments throughout, it functions as a warning for socialists not to let their ideology slip into authoritarianism like the Soviets did. Orwell was a communist.

What do you mean by capitalistic version???

@@aurelien5747 1984 is considered a socialist totalitarian regime. Feed is considered a capitalist totalitarian regime. Feed is the capitalist version of 1984, and 1984 is the socialist version of Feed.

Surprised I'm not seeing more comments like this, but you're absolutely 100% right, and it's been drifting further that way since basically 9/11. Not that the government hasn't always spied on it's own citizens are created falsehoods to justify endless wars or anything, but more to the fact technology has advanced so much since the early 2000s to the point now everyone carries a phone in their pocket and said phone is always listening/watching them, as is social media in general, which essentially act as social-engineering platforms to sway public opinion and also act as a international database where naive and foolish people put all their personal information online for the world to see. Privacy and liberties are becoming a thing of the past as people blindly and willingly accept all the BS the government forces on them. People now are more depressed than ever, unhealthier as ever, demoralized into believing nonsense like "50 genders exist" and other falsehoods and ridiculousness...There's still a lot of people like you and I who are awake to it, but people like us are routinely censored and demonized as "conspiracy theorists" by the powers that be.

Its all thanks to anti-capitalists. Anti-free-marketists. People who do not want anyone to own anything, so they can have what they cant afford, because they are either too lazy to acquire these possessions themselves or too stupid to obtain the jobs to afford such things. The only people shouting for communism/socialism are broke teenagers that want their neighbors Ferrari without buying their own. Free markets are a beautiful thing. Capitalism creates beautiful inventions. Capitalism literally started the industrial revolution and helped create all the modern technology you use today. Without capitalism, the world would still look like the early 1700's. There would be no RU-vid. No Google. No smartphones. Its hilarious that people want to regress society back to the times of peasants and kings just like 1984. Communism is literally Monarchy without a king. Its just poor people growing crops for their leader. Its slavery.

Just the opposite it's more difficult to surpress information than in the past due to social media

You are so right and if the orange devil incarnate gains control of the White House you can say goodbye to freedom. He wants to make America an authoritarian state. Beware the man in sheep’s clothing. 🐑

No we aren’t. The world of 1984, as Orwell had stated, is hyperbole and a parody of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

You mean canada or the uk for that matter

That’s never gonna happen though. There’s too many primitivists, and people will sooner live as vagrants than conform to a toxic society, I know from experience.

Don't forget the cellphones (tracking devices) that listen to your every word and conversation and track your every move and everything about you and those around you. Ever get those ads or feeds that pop up about what you were talking about? Or better yet--what you were even thinking about? What about your dreams, which become things your mind would Never entertain. Curious is it not???

@@wolfetteplays8894 If everyone is almost exclusively online. They will lie and say that this is possible, but offline they will be implementing laws so rain water can't be collected, land ownership prohibited for non elite, no assembly, they will make growing your own food prohibited, and burning wood illegal for some carbon reason. Online though, it'll be smiley footage of happy campers living self-sufficiency in the real world.

Ikr I think it's just England who thinks this way and the party took control after a global nuclear war that nearly killed off humanity allowing the party to easly take control and manipulate events so much that not even the last generations can remember correctly even if they lived it

That’s what I think too, I reckon that the outside world is similar to the current world and that the UK is attacking itself

@@thecalmclone2813 Agreed there is a huge margin of probability that the whole oceania is an extremely isolated hermit state

@@thedoruk6324 Welcome to Glorious True Korea where our God Emperor can literally fly and has never shit or pissed in the entirety of his life

When the book was written most of the world was still governed by massive empires, so the setting shown is probably accurate. North Korea wasn’t some weird anomaly, and hadn’t really become much of a thing yet beyond the half of Korea overseen by the Soviets. Stalin’s empire, however, was a big deal.

Here's one too. 1) g3nd3r roles are 53x!5t and oppressive. 2) m3n must be chivalrous gentlem3n to vv0m3n.

Here’s another one 1)No uterus no opinion 2)Trans women are real women🤡

What?

@@mr.midnight1997 why are you censoring gender related words

@@Zordyn I have to because of youtube.

I like to think about power in social systems like mass in physical systems. In classical mechanics, mass seeks itself via gravity - in the same way, power seeks itself in political mechanics, and concentration of power is an undercurrent that powers much of history. Unfortunately, if you extend that analogy further, physical systems (i.e. astral bodies, orbital interaction) tend to be most stable when there's a strict hierarchy of bodies (i.e. when most areas are gravitationally dominated by as few bodies as possible). Stagnant, but stable.

Yes, yes indeed.

There is a difference between 1984 and Brave New World.

@Mr.CombatX13 Oh, most definitely, I get that. 1984 is definitely more authoritarian, while BNW has an illusion of freedom, for instance

@@CptNick419 you are correct on that.