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I 100% believe Julia was in on the capturing of Winston. It shows how women, like in modern times, have married themselves to The State (Big Brother). I think people overlook this aspect, thinking Julia was a "real connection with another free person" when everything else in this Dystopian nightmare tells us differently. She was, and always has been an agent of Big Brother. . What are your thoughts on this?
@@trumpsextratesticle8590that makes sense. The state has replaced fathers. Make it normal to be a single mother, pay mothers to be single, make it impossible to make enough for one parent to provide for their family, make insane drug laws so that fathers are take away, make masculinity a negative thing, and here we are.
This book gives the reader an idea of what it is like to live as a gay individual. Our history is burned to ashes and our more straight acting individuals are happy to imitate to be erased.
I don't know who the orator is for this podcast, but he's a brilliant young man, wise beyond his years, and far more skilled at presentations than most professionals that I've seen in my 61 years. Bravo!
I actually read this in 1984. I was 21. Growing up in Germany in the early 7o's. My mother a Czech fluchtlinger never let me forget about the notz regime. She would always say to me dont talk so loud,dont ask questions and the fear she would exude. We knew it was serious. These controllers know how to subjugate humans.
2024 is an example with woke and cancel culture along with selective prosercution by the deep state. Also the distortion of the truth with repeated lies with the help of the media and academia
I just don't understand how people can't detect the dissonance and reversal of truth. It's like a tank with a rainbow on it is a symbol of love 🥰 It's just staring us in the face...
Personally I dont think he was talking of what was to come as compared to what was. My reasoning is simple. The same talk about trump and the election is the same as Lincoln, right before the country went socialist.
If you haven’t already I’d highly recommend reading Fahrenheit 451. I find that book to be WAY closer to modern society than 1984. I can see how many think the world is heading in a 1984-like direction, but there’s so many things in Fahrenheit 451 that are almost a carbon copy in the real world today.
An example in usage in the modern day is the word "unalived," which people say online for the purpose of not triggering algorithms with a word like "kill" and thereby literally avoid censors of the corporations.
Social media really made double speak reality and I hate it. People die, they don’t unalive for fuck sake. Same goes for self-censoring swear words. Fuck them
PDF file is another one. It's sad because it makes it even more difficult to actually discuss topics that are already hard enough. I also know of some star wars lore channels that couldn't say the word terrorist because of monetization issues or some guys that do video essays either just take the hit and hope for patreon or they just leave some topics completely alone
This is the best video essay I’ve seen in a while. Not only you explained the philosophical undertones of the novel in great detail, you questioned the viewers about the mental gymnastics we subjugate ourselves to fit into the mold of society. Keep up the great work!
This is so terrifyingly relevant today. This is my best friend's favorite book, and yet somehow he's been sucked into supporting a bunch of authoritarian ideas in the US recently, all because he thinks he's on the side of the good guys. Idk who the good guys are right now, BUT I know the bad guys have ALWAYS believed they were doing good.
Yeah that's really the danger I've tried to espouse to my friends on both sides of the political spectrum. True atrocities and hate always come from people that belive they are the moral good, giving in to their "ends justify the means" mentality
So true, so many people have been murdered and tortured in the name of ‘doing good’ Scientology is one of those ‘religions’ that claims to save the world. In the name of saving the world they use, abuse and really hurt their own people. However, there are good guys, but not in our institutions. They are the guys that help you for free. The guys that give you real information even though they are being punished for it. The guys that practice real unconditional love, not those that CLAIM to practice it
There’s no good guy in the state it’s a unfortunate truth of the life we currently live Both sides red or blue left or right in almost all places in the world! I hope you can one day get thru that neither side is truly right agree with what you want not what the tell you too
I'm so glad I found this channel, easily one of my favorites. Your perspectives and breakdowns are so refreshing because it feels like most other people speaking on these topics are too eager to flex their knowledge on the topic but when I watch you it feels more like curious observation if that makes sense. Which in my opinion is the the number one important thing when it comes to philosophy but reading or listening to many other philosophical types tends to feel like they are trying to prove their idea true rather than test ideas to find the truth. Enough of my rambling, I just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you're doing and I look forward to seeing more.
Thank you! And that is certainly the vibe I hope to give off. My greatest wish for these videos is not so much that anyone will accept my conclusions but that they will act as a stepping stone for their own
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 well you are doing a damn fine job, plus you have helped me in building a concept that helps me more easily accept the nature of good and evil so I kind of feel obligated to express my gratitude and acknowledgement of your talents 🤷♂️
His severity of delivery can be wearing to the easily worn. I can take only a few minutes of him, then I'm done. One wonders how he would be in ordinary conversation.
For me the scariest part of this book is the lack of a place to scape to. I was born in Cuba, a communist country were many of the things this book describes are a reality, but at the age of 16 I was able to flee to the US. In 1984 there is no such option, you are practically in a global scale prison.
@@Dot.774 In Cuba specifically, is mostly the older generations that still believes in communism, and most of those that do is because they blame the United States for all their misery because thats all they know and what they have been told for decades. Most of the younger generations do hate communism and a big part has already migrated to other countries.
@@RasputinRussianothat’s what all communist do. They blame the U.S. for their stupidity. Every time a communist revolution wins power they immediately realize it doesn’t work so they have to crack down on the ppl and control all information. Communist are always ppl that believe they’re smart but are in reality narcissistic psychopaths…
Try reading Bulgákov or Vasili Grossman...if you can find them. I had a hard time finding "Life and destiny" by Grossman and "Dog's heart" and "The Master and Marguerite"; even in Russia were hard to find for decades.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 Great video! Last time I read 1984, I realized that there is a lot that you can't know for sure. Is there a war actually happening? Were there actually any other countries? Is big brother alive? Did big brother ever exist? Is there even a top authority or is functioning like a well oiled machine? With the last question the highest authority we know of is O'Brian and he used to be part of the resistance. I think a good idea for a movie would be a sequel where Winston is in one of the top positions. There is no direct leadership but different people take on certain roles of leadership and think their is someone above them. Somehow Winston comes out of it while taking down the new resistance and brings down the government from the inside. Or, realizes big brother doesn't exist and assumes his role. I loved the way you started this out with it getting banned because of misunderstanding. 😂
The problem with government, is government. Psychopaths crave power, will stop at nothing to seize more and more of it. Conversely, empathic and compassionate individuals seek to empower others to thrive as individuals who contribute to the larger community. This creates a situation where the worst people have authority over all others and those who should have authority are instead punished for their integrity.
Social anarchism is great in concept, but most of the world isn’t ready for it thanks to the Orwellin tactics to twist language against us. Propagandists have been successful in making most “isms” politically poisonous (at least over here in America)
That's why you need to create a government that isn't based on hierarchy. You also need to create strong checks and balances so that the power of government cannot be wielded by one person. And if you remove money from politics, you're more likely to draw people who are doing it with the intention of making it work for the largest possible number of people, rather than those who can afford a seat at the table.
@@Ginonthit is socialism and if it was allowed to happen (without the USA trying to ruin it) then it would actually work. But you refuse to learn history
As someone who has pretty bad hearing, I just wanted to say thanks for adding your own subtitles with each word being highlighted. It may be a small thing but it really helps out, just earned a sub on that alone👍
You know what’s crazy? This was a curriculum book when I was in high school (public school) but we just had to answer questions about the book (memorization) instead of learning the lessons.
Why would they want you to observe any lessons ? That’s like sitting in a church and asking the audience to tell you what part of the Bible should be refuted and complete nonsense. 😂 You’re IN 1984. What part isn’t true
I think it might be useful to gaslight one's self to defend against external gas lighting...but perhaps while simultaneously seeming to emulate conforming...dendritic fractals anyone?... language is full of entendres.
Wtf! Where have you been? What a nugget of gold to hear a thoughtful and informed voice in this world. Send us your courage and love to us here in America. People still don’t see in this country how vulnerable our deepest values are at this time. Can’t wait to watch more of your videos!
I think that there are threats of parts of this book against Western society (mostly around free speech issues), but the only place I think it is reasonable to say it's fully implemented is in N. Korea.
@@HailSatanLLC No, that's you! Because you think the news is the omniscient truth of the universe while thinking anything opposite that narrative is automatically wrong and fascistic. If todays America was Natsy Germany You'd be rating out conservatives like jooz.
The reason Orwell knew so much was not because he was a prophet but because he had experience of British empire colonial life in Burma. Thats where he learned about the hungry rats in the box for your face. Jay Dyer has some great takes on the metaphysical aspects of Big Brother in his video The World's Greatest Villain.
Don't forget about the fact Orwell use too be in journalism in Britain during the 1930's when they were censoring the press on covering the nazis and authoritarian governments
You explained the book thoroughly. 1984 depicts the essence of understanding our very own purpose in life, without prejudice. The purpose of our very own existence. If we live in a tragic situation, we should look back and think, maybe we are the craftsmen of our tragedy. That's true for people of all classes.
Orwell wrote a letter to Huxley regarding this book. It is not about finding your purpose. It’s about white male oligarchy. You can find the letter online. It’s actually crazy how much the current American Christian nationalist movement matches the book.
Your passion and enthusiasm are contagious. I've overlooked the suggestion of this video many times, to my regret. I'm sorry to hear that you're chronically in pain. Keep up the awesome work👍🏻!
Fabian socialist technocracy. A combination of corporate capitalism, Communism and cultural Marxism with cutting edge technology to control it all. The good news is this generation of globalists are not as intelligent as previous generations.
Born in 1972 and at school in england in 1984 i recall a teacher tellung us to avoid propaganda, at the time i thought she was talking about ww2 and Germany, its become aparant our benevolent governments are just as guilty as Germany in the 30s.
I mean if everything you say has some sort of influence, everything you communicate is propaganda, especially if you want it to actually have influence
@@AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh nah idk I’m not really trying to argue I just kinda dislike when people say watch out for propaganda as if it’s this ‘other’ thing, it’s something that’s collective, minor and in everybody, it’s not that it’s bad advice, it’s just it still feels misguided
Yes. It’s very concerning when you realize younger generations are finding it impossible to do anything in life without it. I remember watching a small documentary that showed many kids saying if they didn’t have their phones they would feel “unimaginable anxiety.” All part of the plan.
@@BloodSweatandFears I was born in 86 and the same year I graduated high school in ‘O4 was the same year that the Nokia brick started having a color screen and the button on top that powered the cell if you clicked it twice it was a flashlight. From then till now I been through a lot of phones as they evolved over the years but I never did social media I always thought it was stupid. I love RUclips and games on phone but other then that if I lose it or whatever I definently wouldn’t have a cow about it and stress out. This generation grew up through it and grew up with social media so that’s part of there life and I mean a huge percentage , thay live in this reality and they also live in cyberspace there cyborgs. At some point people will be living totally in cyber space while robots run the world. The future looks grim from this point on with AI and how fast robots are developing and there capabilities.
Listening to other people's private messages has been standard UK govt practice for 40 years now. In the US, 50 years, I reckon. They both deny this, of course.
Amazing analysis. 1984 was the scariest thing i have ever read. Even to this day. Not only is it terrifying as a potential future, and that we can see steps towards it everywhere. It was also triggering, and articulated a lot of the experience of growing up in an abusive household.
Winston’s feelings to big brother reminds me of my own feelings to civilization. This quasi-superorganism which domesticated humanity. I can not deny, that civilization granted me a lot of opportunities and luxuries. But I can not overlook the fact that I am not truly free as long as my freedoms are merely granted to me. I can not overlook the fact, that most of our values have been manufactured by civilization, values that do not exist for the sake of human growth but that exist to stabilize civilization by creating a moral and legal prison for the human mind.
@@EyeOfMemes The opposite is the case. I merely acknowledge that what is in civilizations best interest might not be in humanities best interest. Civilization is the greatest threat to humanity, since it possesses the potential to destroy itself together with humanity, and because it possesses the potential to survive humanity by replacing it’s human substrate with another type of entity.
Your mind can be imprisoned in evil though seemingly “free”. Many without morals found themselves dead at the hands of themselves. They were not free. But BOUND and UTTERLY. Just saying that this much is so.
I have recently become very conflicted about free will and true consciousness. I’ve always felt as though it’s all mostly decided for us by us experiencing our environment, what ever that environment is for each and every one of us…. All our knowledge and learned behavior is from things before, people from the past, just observing nature itself. Even if born out of thin air into a forest all alone and growing up all by yourself, we are slaves to our experiences of our environment. (At least while in the flesh and mortal mind here on earth….) We all know our systems are lies. Voting doesn’t really matter, money does. We all know those in power will be in power. There will always be a “force of evil” out there, and you know what? Maybe it’s supposed to be like that… ever think of that? Anyways, it our duty to fight and break free. As free as we can. And even as a collective. Because the power and control today, is almost utterly complete….. and there is no other choice, unless you want to be miserable AND oppressed! We’re almost always going to miserable regardless, (unless ignorant and blissful as Orwell explains….)
Your videos are so engaging I watched across a day of work. Bits here and there but phone hidden in the notepad and your theatric tones on the headphones. Bravo, great work.
It’s always the smartest of society, professionals, doctors etc that push ideals like this, not the working class. The more intelligent a person is, you’d think they’d be able to break free of their biases but the opposite is true. The more intelligent you are, the better you can reinforce your biases with carefully selected facts that support them. An intelligent person can jump through a lot more loops to justify a wrong than an unintelligent person can. There’s a word for the phenomenon but i forgot what it’s called.
@@Blakossthere are a lot of things you mentioned together… this is not correct. There are many more average people than intelligent. You’re thinking of confirmation bias, but jumping through mental gymnastics is not what intelligent people do. Intelligent people know that they don’t know a lot and are accepting of new information while less intelligent people think they know more. It’s called the dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not the intelligent who run society, it’s those with money. Sometimes there is overlap but intelligence can be had at any tax bracket. There are just too many people who aren’t smart enough to understand that trying to keep others from doing better will hurt them as well. Others getting more doesn’t mean you get less but capitalism needs people to believe equity is impossible. It is possible, we just have to overhaul a lot of our systems, and too many people think the system is fine even though there are many blatant examples that it’s not. And again, back to cherry picking for confirmation bias.
Some day I will read the book. Your video has sufficiently terrified me to hold off until I'm ready again. Need to catch my breath. Wow. What an amazing video. So clear. Well done!
Love your videos man. Been watching and listening every night for the past week. You’re really great at teaching these different philosophies and I’m loving it. Keep em coming dude 🖤
@@EgoChip We certainly are building a perfect road to get there, but saying it's already here is basically giving up and letting it happen. You are still not thrown in jail for owning books or thinking for yourself.
im now 17 and idk why i read this when i was 15 but, other than the message it gives, on a story telling level it was an amazing work, i could feel the world as a colorless picture before Winston meeting with julia and after that how everything started to get splashed with life and color. I really love your videos and work please keep making these amazing analysis and reviews on these amazing subjects❤.
I knew it was going to be 1984 but almost an hour video and with subs... I feel spoiled:) Thank you!! Orwell depicted the dangers of totalitarism brilliantly. For me, if there's a lesson in the novel it would be that what makes us human (our capacity to think, to empathize to other humans, our individuality ,diversity, etc) is actually very fragile and should not be taken for granted. Hope to see more video analysis of novels like this in the future. It was brilliant...Not putting pressure or anything but a video like this on Brothers Karamazov would be heaven :DD
This brought me back to middle school, which was when I read 1984 - in 1984. This was a really great analysis. It's a bit odd though, 40 years into the future, still thinking about this book and how it relates to today.
I watched the movie when I was much too young to grasp yet knew it was a must to explore and finally picked up the book last year or so. Now I pull it off the shelf and see I left off on page 91. With a writing on a book mark I wrote "I understand how I do not understand why". Your critic is not a spoiler for me at all, but rather an enlivening. 🙏
In our personal lives we should never give in to fear of what society thinks about what we say or do. Profesional life is a little more tricky. And keeping those two distinct is extremely important for mental health.
The WEF is just a place… Want to know who rules over you? Who are you not allowed to criticize? Who is getting legislation passed so it’s illegal to say anything they disagree with? No one cares what anyone says about the people that meet at the WEF.
@@Goliad_RespectorTunnel diggers. But the WEF is one of the main organizations ZOG is using to force the 4IR on the world. I'm sure you're already familiar with the roots of the WEF if you know about ZOG though. Same tribe.
I think you are the best analyst and thinker I have ever watched, including all TED talks and podcasts from neuroscientists, actors, politicians, authors, psychologists...
It's like standing up to an abuser. Very very well done! Best yet on 1984. I wish the people I'd like to share this with would actually watch it. They wont want to cut into their reality TV and TikTok makeup tutorial time though... Thought crime is very comparable to mainstream religion, huh?
Was just thinking this. Many women especially have already a lot of experience of the effect control and gaslighting to create confusion and make you question your own memory.
This book along with Animal Farm (I hated it but suffered through it), Fahrenheit 451, and The Good Earth amongst many others were foundational in my current understanding of events happening today. Lotsa good philosophical treasures in these. If you havent read them i highly suggest reading. Some of the things like the gaslighting and mental struggles in the 1984 book really ring true now, after years of living. Some experience, you can't get without living it. And theres a warning: you don't and shouldn't strive to live these things either. Another good vid, thamks UA :)
Fantastic work brother, I’ve been meaning to read this book, and I get a lot out of your videos, I like how you make them, thank you for sharing your takes on these sorts of things, very helpful
From my own personal experiences what you spoke about in the section "Language and Thought" is absolutely true. I have struggled with anxiety around "Evil Thoughts" for most of my adult life. I expressed to my therapist that I was afraid of my thoughts making me a horrible person, but it took me a rambling half hour to do so, after I was done she summed it all up with me being afraid of "Thought Crime". Having a short, easy to reference term, made working around it so much easier. I can now remind myself that "Thought Crime is not real" as a tactic to stop the anxious loop in its tracks and redirect my mind onto healthier paths. (Does it always work? of course not. but its a helluva lot better)
I think I understand better now why I was mentally unable to read this when I was in highschool. I grew up in an emotionally/verbally abusive household with a LOT of gaslighting and thought policing, and I would read fiction as a means of escape. 1984 was not an escape, it was too close to home.
07:30 🧠 Orwell's novel "1984" highlights the importance of memory in personal identity, showing how the Party manipulates and distorts citizens' memories to control their perception of reality. 12:19 🗣 Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is deliberately designed by the Party to limit citizens' ability to express dissenting thoughts, effectively controlling their minds and emotions. 18:32 💔 Orwell's depiction of thought control and emotional manipulation in "1984" serves as a chilling warning about the dangers of authoritarian regimes suppressing individuality and autonomy. 18:59 🎭 The Party in "1984" demonizes passionate emotions like love and sexual desire to control citizens. 20:50 💭 Repression of emotions in Oceania leads to a constant state of guilt and shame among its inhabitants. 22:30 🧠 The Party in "1984" manipulates the definition of mental health to include compliance with its regime. 25:15 📡 Total surveillance in Oceania abolishes private life and promotes constant anxiety among its populace. 26:24 🤔 In Oceania, any private opinion is subsumed within the political sphere, promoting fear and anxiety. 29:40 ⚖ The absence of formal laws in Oceania implies that everything citizens do is the state's business, erasing personal autonomy. 31:03 💀 O'Brien's motivation to serve Big Brother stems from a desire for symbolic immortality, tying into human instinctive death denial. 36:52 🛡 O'Brien's portrayal as distinctly human serves as a warning against sacrificing individuality for a higher power. 38:43 🤔 Nosic's question about entering the pleasure machine challenges whether blind happiness or imperfect reality is preferred. 39:24 💔 Winston faces a painful dilemma: conform to the party's lies for comfort or resist for truth, representing a clash between ideals and pragmatism. 43:59 😓 Making moral choices in 1984's world is incredibly difficult, with harsh penalties in either direction, highlighting the complexity of ethical decision-making. 45:23 😔 Helplessness and hopelessness pervade 1984, reflecting the bleak reality faced by its characters, echoing Kafkaesque themes of despair and disempowerment. 48:06 🌍 The Party's relentless pursuit of power leads to existential crisis, as it nears omnipotence, potentially depriving it of purpose and hope. 52:29 😢 Big Brother's ultimate tragedy lies in its dependence on dissenters like Winston, revealing a deeper layer of despair within the Party's structure.
I would die before I ever give in to such an evil repossession of my mind and body. This is why TRUTH is so unbelievably important. And I too agree that a broken system with criminals in the judges seats cannot possibly be respected by those who are on the bottom getting arrested on every new whim of the State!
Wow, one of the best examinations of 1984 I’ve yet come across and brilliantly linked to other works and philosophical ideas. Eloquently and superbly presented. 👍
We the people keep the system alive because we have given our personal trust over to corrupted governments.As individuals we need very little,where as the government requires more and more from us.
My friends I encourage you to all read 1984 as if you do not see that this might be happening right now or has happened then you are not seeing it truly. I encourage you all to be open minded,seek real news,and real life. Thank you for reading this and to you all God bless you all peace be with you.
because it's not there yet, or anywhere near it - yet. but it will easily become reality if we keep just saying: it's here now! No it's not! Be a responsible citizen and make sure that doesn't happen.
The creepiness of all of it? How many you have a cell phone that pay more attention to more than each other? Or the computer? I'm 45- read this book back in high school, had to write a report about the whole severity of the story... It's scary how accurate the story is.
Fun fact: 1984 is the most common novel that people lie about having read so they can use. It’s my favourite book. I really hope more people actually read it. ❤️ Burmese Days is a great one too.
ngl, the idea of just shutting off my higher thinking and falling in line with allowing someone else to think for me completely sounds somehow freeing. I know i don't want it, i know its wrong, yet there is that small spark of how much easier it would all be to just stop fighting. And that is why its so easy for it to happen in the first place.
someone else thinking for you is total baloney. They don't know your body or the experience your brain and its thought process that results in "you". That's the same are as replacing someone actually good at the job with someone clearly incompetent but just charming or stylish.
The beauty of the modern focus group coupled with meta data means the 'system' can make choices for you, the choices you didn't even know you secretly desired. And because you can never truly know for sure if those were true desires and wants, you wont ever know if the focus group and meta isn't just one big blag to steal democracy and freedom.
To me just into the video of less than 5 minutes in, I got chills when I heard big brother how many continents do big brother as a tv show… just saying I don’t believe in coincidences 😅. I’m In Australia and this sounds like most of the world including our country to me… this is scary more so when it seems like this book truly has been hidden me and most my mates I’ve asked never heard of this book at school or in passing 😅
Listening to this for a second time, I am chilled to my core thinking about the parallels between Big Brother and organized religion... especially of the fundamentalist and conservative variety...
I would LOVE to hear your take on Gombrowicz's _Ferdydurke_ ! It is a truly fascinating and mind-boggling piece, and _1984_ 's theme of one's inability to express their own self reminded me of it in some ways :) Great video as always!
I read 1984 in school and it frightened me to death. My whole life, I had free speech. Now, for example, when Black Lives Matter happened, i said, as a Christian, that every life matter, she screamed in my face calling me a racist. Now, every few weeks, I have to ask her what the new woke words are in case I offend someone or some group, unknowingly.
Well, it’s all context. Both “black lives matter” and “all lives matter” are correct. BLM was started to bring awareness to the injustice done to a specific racial group, and “all lives matter” was a slogan that was used in counter protests at the time by people who support the police during the George Floyd / BLM protests. It’s understandable why it triggers so many people to saying it in the context of the events. It helps to step into the shoes of others who are caught up in these movements so we can create dialogue to help us understand each other better, instead of seeing someone lashing out at you emotionally and then labeling their movement as some 1984-like stuff. That’s how you create distance, and distance between fellow citizens makes things easier to become the way they are in 1984. The political divide in the US has blinded its citizens from the fact that most of them will be voting for one criminal over the other to be their next president, when there are much more worthy candidates out there not affiliated with the two major parties that have been playing this game and driving this country into the ground for decades.
a person using their free speech to yell at you about what you are saying is ALSO part of free speech. you are not forbidden to say "all lives matter". it's not written in the law. therefore, you are misinterpreting things, and doing so by attacking people opposed to you by conflating one woman's words at you with an entire oppressive regime THAT DOESN'T EXIST.
@@rosenunez4328 Well clearly a warning of a possible future if we don't wake up to and grapple with its causes... I refer you to Daniel Schmactenberger's talks, for a systemic understanding of how civilization gets caught into these cyclic negative traps
Love that you did this, one of the things I most often think about when I hear people quote Orwell and the context in which he is quoted is that these people can't have actually read the works.
Wonderful piece. I enjoyed revisiting the story and all of its poignant horrors. The frantic subtitles that seem to be so popular these make it unwatchable but the audio is sufficient.
I grew up in Sweden, first generation. My parents were both Polish refugees, I am so happy they thought me never to trust any government. Anyone with that much power is inevitably corrupted. The only one I trust is God 🙏🏻
Thanks for making these vids - a real person with a real English accent- I find it so nice to listen to- my mother was from Lancashire and I am American . But am so grateful for English culture - take care .
Ah I love both of those! I am defo planning to make videos on them in the future (though frankly, I have no idea how I would talk about A Clockwork Orange without RUclips throwing a complete fit)
CORRECTION: The book was not banned in the whole of the US for being pro-communist. It was banned in a few school districts. I apologize for any confusion this caused.
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I 100% believe Julia was in on the capturing of Winston. It shows how women, like in modern times, have married themselves to The State (Big Brother). I think people overlook this aspect, thinking Julia was a "real connection with another free person" when everything else in this Dystopian nightmare tells us differently. She was, and always has been an agent of Big Brother.
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What are your thoughts on this?
Tru and the current anti marriage,men movement is happening for that exact reason
Can you also make a video for "The Brave New World"
@@trumpsextratesticle8590that makes sense. The state has replaced fathers. Make it normal to be a single mother, pay mothers to be single, make it impossible to make enough for one parent to provide for their family, make insane drug laws so that fathers are take away, make masculinity a negative thing, and here we are.
This book gives the reader an idea of what it is like to live as a gay individual. Our history is burned to ashes and our more straight acting individuals are happy to imitate to be erased.
I don't know who the orator is for this podcast, but he's a brilliant young man, wise beyond his years, and far more skilled at presentations than most professionals that I've seen in my 61 years. Bravo!
I just said some of the same things, he is so smart it’s a pleasure to listen to listen him ❤
orwell: i should warn people
elites: oh nice, a manual
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Goebbels left a manual, actualized by Bannon.
@@LyrielonwindLOL if you think Steve Bannon is an issue.
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I guess Trump isn't in your opinion.
@@Lyrielonwind Not nearly as much as the MSM, Congress, corrupt legal system, teacher unions, etc.
I actually read this in 1984. I was 21. Growing up in Germany in the early 7o's. My mother a Czech fluchtlinger never let me forget about the notz regime. She would always say to me dont talk so loud,dont ask questions and the fear she would exude. We knew it was serious. These controllers know how to subjugate humans.
If she were a German Jew born before the Reich she woud certainly have a much happier memories than a Czech Fluchtling ... /s
I read this in 1964 as a 13 y o
Going to reread this
I read this at 12 years old in 1973. Really good.
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Wow... That's awesome. ❤️🔥
Ur a few years older than I was in 73
2024 is an example with woke and cancel culture along with selective prosercution by the deep state. Also the distortion of the truth with repeated lies with the help of the media and academia
If you can walk away from reading or hearing about 1984 and not see how it’s playing out in the real world today, then there’s no hope.
I just don't understand how people can't detect the dissonance and reversal of truth. It's like a tank with a rainbow on it is a symbol of love 🥰
It's just staring us in the face...
Them blootclot boys?
Personally I dont think he was talking of what was to come as compared to what was. My reasoning is simple. The same talk about trump and the election is the same as Lincoln, right before the country went socialist.
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If you haven’t already I’d highly recommend reading Fahrenheit 451. I find that book to be WAY closer to modern society than 1984. I can see how many think the world is heading in a 1984-like direction, but there’s so many things in Fahrenheit 451 that are almost a carbon copy in the real world today.
An example in usage in the modern day is the word "unalived," which people say online for the purpose of not triggering algorithms with a word like "kill" and thereby literally avoid censors of the corporations.
It's more often used for s-cide.
Social media really made double speak reality and I hate it. People die, they don’t unalive for fuck sake. Same goes for self-censoring swear words. Fuck them
Tbf the meaning of unlive is exactly the same.
PDF file is another one. It's sad because it makes it even more difficult to actually discuss topics that are already hard enough. I also know of some star wars lore channels that couldn't say the word terrorist because of monetization issues or some guys that do video essays either just take the hit and hope for patreon or they just leave some topics completely alone
Also it's mildly but deeply disturbing how the sheer concept of death gets turned to "more kid friendly" version.
This is the best video essay I’ve seen in a while. Not only you explained the philosophical undertones of the novel in great detail, you questioned the viewers about the mental gymnastics we subjugate ourselves to fit into the mold of society. Keep up the great work!
This is so terrifyingly relevant today. This is my best friend's favorite book, and yet somehow he's been sucked into supporting a bunch of authoritarian ideas in the US recently, all because he thinks he's on the side of the good guys. Idk who the good guys are right now, BUT I know the bad guys have ALWAYS believed they were doing good.
Yeah that's really the danger I've tried to espouse to my friends on both sides of the political spectrum. True atrocities and hate always come from people that belive they are the moral good, giving in to their "ends justify the means" mentality
by that logic if i save a baby then...im a bad guy too cuz you dont know whose good or bad.
Did ya take the jibbyjabs, mate?
So true, so many people have been murdered and tortured in the name of ‘doing good’ Scientology is one of those ‘religions’ that claims to save the world. In the name of saving the world they use, abuse and really hurt their own people. However, there are good guys, but not in our institutions. They are the guys that help you for free. The guys that give you real information even though they are being punished for it. The guys that practice real unconditional love, not those that CLAIM to practice it
There’s no good guy in the state it’s a unfortunate truth of the life we currently live Both sides red or blue left or right in almost all places in the world! I hope you can one day get thru that neither side is truly right agree with what you want not what the tell you too
I'm so glad I found this channel, easily one of my favorites. Your perspectives and breakdowns are so refreshing because it feels like most other people speaking on these topics are too eager to flex their knowledge on the topic but when I watch you it feels more like curious observation if that makes sense. Which in my opinion is the the number one important thing when it comes to philosophy but reading or listening to many other philosophical types tends to feel like they are trying to prove their idea true rather than test ideas to find the truth. Enough of my rambling, I just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you're doing and I look forward to seeing more.
Thank you! And that is certainly the vibe I hope to give off. My greatest wish for these videos is not so much that anyone will accept my conclusions but that they will act as a stepping stone for their own
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 well you are doing a damn fine job, plus you have helped me in building a concept that helps me more easily accept the nature of good and evil so I kind of feel obligated to express my gratitude and acknowledgement of your talents 🤷♂️
they did in 2009
His severity of delivery can be wearing to the easily worn.
I can take only a few minutes of him, then I'm done. One
wonders how he would be in ordinary conversation.
0:11 if your book gets banned in both the US and in the USSR then you probably wrote a really good book
The book didn't get banned in the US. It was age restricted by some schools due to sex.
@@ggusta1tomaeto tomato 🍅
It was banned in the U.S. because Congress back then realized how STUPID ppl are and many would see that system as a utopia. They were right……..
@@dcatterz7048so you’re one of the pedo’s fighting to have triple X rated content in elementary schools??
@@ggusta1 that's just excuse
For me the scariest part of this book is the lack of a place to scape to. I was born in Cuba, a communist country were many of the things this book describes are a reality, but at the age of 16 I was able to flee to the US. In 1984 there is no such option, you are practically in a global scale prison.
I don’t think you have got much of an escape there.
It’s the US which has destroyed Cuba……
@@ProcrastinatingWanderer Sounds like you don't think real well then
@@Dot.774 In Cuba specifically, is mostly the older generations that still believes in communism, and most of those that do is because they blame the United States for all their misery because thats all they know and what they have been told for decades. Most of the younger generations do hate communism and a big part has already migrated to other countries.
@@RasputinRussianothat’s what all communist do. They blame the U.S. for their stupidity. Every time a communist revolution wins power they immediately realize it doesn’t work so they have to crack down on the ppl and control all information. Communist are always ppl that believe they’re smart but are in reality narcissistic psychopaths…
This is an absolute pleasure of an essay. Breaking down 1984 is intensely interesting
What if I told you 1984 is not primarily about the future, but the past?
@@HighspergamyYes, but the past as prologue.
Just opened youtube to see one of my favourite content creators talk about Orwell, a true blessing
Ah thank you! I hope you like it! This has been a long time in the making
Try reading Bulgákov or Vasili Grossman...if you can find them. I had a hard time finding "Life and destiny" by Grossman and "Dog's heart" and "The Master and Marguerite"; even in Russia were hard to find for decades.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 Great video! Last time I read 1984, I realized that there is a lot that you can't know for sure.
Is there a war actually happening?
Were there actually any other countries?
Is big brother alive?
Did big brother ever exist?
Is there even a top authority or is functioning like a well oiled machine?
With the last question the highest authority we know of is O'Brian and he used to be part of the resistance.
I think a good idea for a movie would be a sequel where Winston is in one of the top positions. There is no direct leadership but different people take on certain roles of leadership and think their is someone above them. Somehow Winston comes out of it while taking down the new resistance and brings down the government from the inside. Or, realizes big brother doesn't exist and assumes his role.
I loved the way you started this out with it getting banned because of misunderstanding. 😂
I second that!!!!
The problem with government, is government.
Psychopaths crave power, will stop at nothing to seize more and more of it. Conversely, empathic and compassionate individuals seek to empower others to thrive as individuals who contribute to the larger community. This creates a situation where the worst people have authority over all others and those who should have authority are instead punished for their integrity.
Social anarchism is great in concept, but most of the world isn’t ready for it thanks to the Orwellin tactics to twist language against us. Propagandists have been successful in making most “isms” politically poisonous (at least over here in America)
That's why you need to create a government that isn't based on hierarchy.
You also need to create strong checks and balances so that the power of government cannot be wielded by one person.
And if you remove money from politics, you're more likely to draw people who are doing it with the intention of making it work for the largest possible number of people, rather than those who can afford a seat at the table.
@@Jaq2Jack Sounds like socialism, sorry. We can't have that.
@@Ginonthit is socialism and if it was allowed to happen (without the USA trying to ruin it) then it would actually work. But you refuse to learn history
unless we get a solution for unlimited resources which is very cheap power there will be hierarchy and fight for control of these resources
As someone who has pretty bad hearing, I just wanted to say thanks for adding your own subtitles with each word being highlighted. It may be a small thing but it really helps out, just earned a sub on that alone👍
You know what’s crazy? This was a curriculum book when I was in high school (public school) but we just had to answer questions about the book (memorization) instead of learning the lessons.
Also being banned in US schools
My High School as well......Class of 84
Why would they want you to observe any lessons ?
That’s like sitting in a church and asking the audience to tell you what part of the Bible should be refuted and complete nonsense. 😂
You’re IN 1984. What part isn’t true
I think it might be useful to gaslight one's self to defend against external gas lighting...but perhaps while simultaneously seeming to emulate conforming...dendritic fractals anyone?... language is full of entendres.
Good ole American education
Sometimes I abstain from warning people of future possible horrors in fear they might take them as inspiration
Future? You're witnessing it real-time. (think: frog in pot)
there is always hope...then again, it WAS in Pandora's box for a reason...sigh ops and psy ops...I'm afraid not of frayed knots. blame is lamed. 🪩
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Brudda
Were not in THAT extreme yet
Its gonna be kinda slow journey till we get there
Theres still a lot of self aware ppl
Wtf! Where have you been? What a nugget of gold to hear a thoughtful and informed voice in this world.
Send us your courage and love to us here in America. People still don’t see in this country how vulnerable our deepest values are at this time.
Can’t wait to watch more of your videos!
This is one hell of a deep study of this fascinating book - really well done
Thank you! I still feel like I barely scratched the surface!
We are already living in a 1984 like world. Most people don't realize it
Not at all. Depending on where you live, you very likely have freedoms of speech enshrined in the law
They should rename the book to 2024
In Asia it's still OK for now . At least in SEA.
@@Naren25 This is technically an example of exactly what OP is saying , and the worst part is, no one will understand what I mean by that.
@Naren25 we dont have free speech in the UK
Rereading this now. Read it in middle school and never imagined it could ever happen. Here we are. Thanks brandon
You’re reading it wrong. You’re the brain-gone. Figure it out
@@TBrosProject trans women are women
Good job being the literal embodiment of what Orwell warned against.
I think that there are threats of parts of this book against Western society (mostly around free speech issues), but the only place I think it is reasonable to say it's fully implemented is in N. Korea.
@@HailSatanLLC No, that's you! Because you think the news is the omniscient truth of the universe while thinking anything opposite that narrative is automatically wrong and fascistic. If todays America was Natsy Germany You'd be rating out conservatives like jooz.
The reason Orwell knew so much was not because he was a prophet but because he had experience of British empire colonial life in Burma. Thats where he learned about the hungry rats in the box for your face. Jay Dyer has some great takes on the metaphysical aspects of Big Brother in his video The World's Greatest Villain.
Don't forget about the fact Orwell use too be in journalism in Britain during the 1930's when they were censoring the press on covering the nazis and authoritarian governments
No one thinks he’s a prophet. Rats have been used in this way for centuries before the British were in Burma
@@debbylou5729 I've seen 1984 praised as prophetic more times than I can remember.
@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy so?
@@debbylou5729 Ok don't care. Have a great day.
I read the book when I was 14, which was the year 1984. I’ve read it many times and it always makes my blood turn to ice.
So you're saying you think it's a personal instruction manual?
i am 14 in 2024, and i am absolutely blown away.
You explained the book thoroughly. 1984 depicts the essence of understanding our very own purpose in life, without prejudice. The purpose of our very own existence. If we live in a tragic situation, we should look back and think, maybe we are the craftsmen of our tragedy. That's true for people of all classes.
Orwell wrote a letter to Huxley regarding this book. It is not about finding your purpose. It’s about white male oligarchy. You can find the letter online. It’s actually crazy how much the current American Christian nationalist movement matches the book.
Your passion and enthusiasm are contagious. I've overlooked the suggestion of this video many times, to my regret. I'm sorry to hear that you're chronically in pain. Keep up the awesome work👍🏻!
Love to see it I watched ur q n a and you said you wanna make philosophy easy to access and you definitely do great video bro
Thank you!
We actually got a mix of Brave New World and 1984, in reality. Yay.
Fabian socialist technocracy. A combination of corporate capitalism, Communism and cultural Marxism with cutting edge technology to control it all. The good news is this generation of globalists are not as intelligent as previous generations.
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Love how they keep my on my toes
@@Hojotoho.Yall504 I wish we were actually able to implement that guidebook. Unfortunately we are far from it tho 😔
@@Hojotoho.Yall504 LOL I'm a man, why would I read it? I just like the solutions they impose in their situation.
Born in 1972 and at school in england in 1984 i recall a teacher tellung us to avoid propaganda, at the time i thought she was talking about ww2 and Germany, its become aparant our benevolent governments are just as guilty as Germany in the 30s.
I mean if everything you say has some sort of influence, everything you communicate is propaganda, especially if you want it to actually have influence
@rando8916 nicely put but your point is?
@@AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh you should have the same thoughts as I
@@AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh nah idk I’m not really trying to argue I just kinda dislike when people say watch out for propaganda as if it’s this ‘other’ thing, it’s something that’s collective, minor and in everybody, it’s not that it’s bad advice, it’s just it still feels misguided
@rando8916 that's the point of propaganda it leaves a question
That description of microphones and cameras. Is todays modern cell phones.
And anything with Alexa, google. Siri etc
Yes. It’s very concerning when you realize younger generations are finding it impossible to do anything in life without it. I remember watching a small documentary that showed many kids saying if they didn’t have their phones they would feel “unimaginable anxiety.” All part of the plan.
@@BloodSweatandFears that’s how I feel if I lose my wallet. Or car keys.
@@BloodSweatandFears I was born in 86 and the same year I graduated high school in ‘O4 was the same year that the Nokia brick started having a color screen and the button on top that powered the cell if you clicked it twice it was a flashlight. From then till now I been through a lot of phones as they evolved over the years but I never did social media I always thought it was stupid. I love RUclips and games on phone but other then that if I lose it or whatever I definently wouldn’t have a cow about it and stress out. This generation grew up through it and grew up with social media so that’s part of there life and I mean a huge percentage , thay live in this reality and they also live in cyberspace there cyborgs. At some point people will be living totally in cyber space while robots run the world. The future looks grim from this point on with AI and how fast robots are developing and there capabilities.
Listening to other people's private messages has been standard UK govt practice for 40 years now. In the US, 50 years, I reckon. They both deny this, of course.
Amazing analysis.
1984 was the scariest thing i have ever read. Even to this day. Not only is it terrifying as a potential future, and that we can see steps towards it everywhere. It was also triggering, and articulated a lot of the experience of growing up in an abusive household.
Imagine a thumb , smashing down on a touchscreen , forever .
That‘s the world we live in today.
Hehe this comment is severely under rated
This goes so hard
Winston’s feelings to big brother reminds me of my own feelings to civilization.
This quasi-superorganism which domesticated humanity.
I can not deny, that civilization granted me a lot of opportunities and luxuries.
But I can not overlook the fact that I am not truly free as long as my freedoms are merely granted to me.
I can not overlook the fact, that most of our values have been manufactured by civilization, values that do not exist for the sake of human growth but that exist to stabilize civilization by creating a moral and legal prison for the human mind.
Ah, you might enjoy some of Diogenes the Cynic's insights if you want to explore that critique further
Nah, that's just nihilism
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The opposite is the case.
I merely acknowledge that what is in civilizations best interest might not be in humanities best interest.
Civilization is the greatest threat to humanity, since it possesses the potential to destroy itself together with humanity, and because it possesses the potential to survive humanity by replacing it’s human substrate with another type of entity.
Your mind can be imprisoned in evil though seemingly “free”. Many without morals found themselves dead at the hands of themselves. They were not free. But BOUND and UTTERLY. Just saying that this much is so.
I have recently become very conflicted about free will and true consciousness. I’ve always felt as though it’s all mostly decided for us by us experiencing our environment, what ever that environment is for each and every one of us….
All our knowledge and learned behavior is from things before, people from the past, just observing nature itself. Even if born out of thin air into a forest all alone and growing up all by yourself, we are slaves to our experiences of our environment. (At least while in the flesh and mortal mind here on earth….)
We all know our systems are lies. Voting doesn’t really matter, money does. We all know those in power will be in power. There will always be a “force of evil” out there, and you know what? Maybe it’s supposed to be like that… ever think of that? Anyways, it our duty to fight and break free. As free as we can. And even as a collective. Because the power and control today, is almost utterly complete….. and there is no other choice, unless you want to be miserable AND oppressed!
We’re almost always going to miserable regardless, (unless ignorant and blissful as Orwell explains….)
Your videos are so engaging I watched across a day of work. Bits here and there but phone hidden in the notepad and your theatric tones on the headphones. Bravo, great work.
"New speak." It's so scary to me that we all read this book in high school and yet smart, good people are promoting doing this
My school wasn’t allowed to read it😅
@@HX3ne when/where did you go to hs? That's scary af!
Florida
It’s always the smartest of society, professionals, doctors etc that push ideals like this, not the working class. The more intelligent a person is, you’d think they’d be able to break free of their biases but the opposite is true. The more intelligent you are, the better you can reinforce your biases with carefully selected facts that support them. An intelligent person can jump through a lot more loops to justify a wrong than an unintelligent person can. There’s a word for the phenomenon but i forgot what it’s called.
@@Blakossthere are a lot of things you mentioned together… this is not correct. There are many more average people than intelligent. You’re thinking of confirmation bias, but jumping through mental gymnastics is not what intelligent people do. Intelligent people know that they don’t know a lot and are accepting of new information while less intelligent people think they know more. It’s called the dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not the intelligent who run society, it’s those with money. Sometimes there is overlap but intelligence can be had at any tax bracket. There are just too many people who aren’t smart enough to understand that trying to keep others from doing better will hurt them as well. Others getting more doesn’t mean you get less but capitalism needs people to believe equity is impossible. It is possible, we just have to overhaul a lot of our systems, and too many people think the system is fine even though there are many blatant examples that it’s not. And again, back to cherry picking for confirmation bias.
Some day I will read the book. Your video has sufficiently terrified me to hold off until I'm ready again. Need to catch my breath. Wow. What an amazing video. So clear. Well done!
Example of the modern weakness allowing the others to take control of your life
aka man up lil buddy
Love your videos man.
Been watching and listening every night for the past week.
You’re really great at teaching these different philosophies and I’m loving it.
Keep em coming dude 🖤
This was was “encouraged” reading when I was in High school. I’ll never forget it. Every day I’m reminded.
Do "Brave New World" next. It's 1984's big brother, no pun intented.
The two go hand in hand, as we see aspects of both creeping into our societies.
And animal farm
@@ickster23 Creeping? They are being brazenly implemented and people are cheering it on.
@@EgoChip Yep. I was giving society the benefit of the doubt, but it does seem that the majority welcome the jackboots on their necks.
@@EgoChip We certainly are building a perfect road to get there, but saying it's already here is basically giving up and letting it happen. You are still not thrown in jail for owning books or thinking for yourself.
im now 17 and idk why i read this when i was 15 but, other than the message it gives, on a story telling level it was an amazing work, i could feel the world as a colorless picture before Winston meeting with julia and after that how everything started to get splashed with life and color.
I really love your videos and work please keep making these amazing analysis and reviews on these amazing subjects❤.
You should look at Orwell's opposite, Huxley's Brave New World.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown shoe stamping down on a human face forever.
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That’s present day USA.
Heyyy
I discovered you channel today and I overjoyed by the quality of your content. Your channel alone justifies me paying for youtube premium
I just discovered him today too. He is so good.
I knew it was going to be 1984 but almost an hour video and with subs... I feel spoiled:) Thank you!!
Orwell depicted the dangers of totalitarism brilliantly. For me, if there's a lesson in the novel it would be that what makes us human (our capacity to think, to empathize to other humans, our individuality ,diversity, etc) is actually very fragile and should not be taken for granted.
Hope to see more video analysis of novels like this in the future. It was brilliant...Not putting pressure or anything but a video like this on Brothers Karamazov would be heaven :DD
This brought me back to middle school, which was when I read 1984 - in 1984. This was a really great analysis. It's a bit odd though, 40 years into the future, still thinking about this book and how it relates to today.
It's cleverly written so it will always remain relevant to some degree.
The amount of effort you make towards these videos are commendable. Than you for this insight.
Oh man. I ❤ this channel. I will support soon as I am able. Please keep doing what you do.
I watched the movie when I was much too young to grasp yet knew it was a must to explore and finally picked up the book last year or so. Now I pull it off the shelf and see I left off on page 91. With a writing on a book mark I wrote "I understand how I do not understand why". Your critic is not a spoiler for me at all, but rather an enlivening. 🙏
This was a great hour, though I must watch it again. And read 1984 again. Thank you for your thought-provoking videos.
Thank you for watching!
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 thank you for replying.
1984 is now in the public domain, out of copyright and can be downloaded as a free PDF.
31:27 “When death exists, I do not. When I exist, death does not.”
In our personal lives we should never give in to fear of what society thinks about what we say or do. Profesional life is a little more tricky. And keeping those two distinct is extremely important for mental health.
The WEF think this book is an instruction manual not fiction.
The WEF is just a place… Want to know who rules over you? Who are you not allowed to criticize? Who is getting legislation passed so it’s illegal to say anything they disagree with? No one cares what anyone says about the people that meet at the WEF.
You forgot how to spell tory.
@@Goliad_RespectorTunnel diggers. But the WEF is one of the main organizations ZOG is using to force the 4IR on the world. I'm sure you're already familiar with the roots of the WEF if you know about ZOG though. Same tribe.
@@DJWESG1 so funny how all sides read 1984, then accuse the other side of implementing it 😹
@@ma-moomoo , because , even in the book, you need all sides to do the same things to their citizens, in the name of fighting the "Other side."...
The segment on thought and language is incredibly reminiscent of modern book bannings, and the slang adapted to avoid online censorship
I have read it twice and still gained more insight from this video. Thank you!
I think you are the best analyst and thinker I have ever watched, including all TED talks and podcasts from neuroscientists, actors, politicians, authors, psychologists...
It's like standing up to an abuser. Very very well done! Best yet on 1984. I wish the people I'd like to share this with would actually watch it. They wont want to cut into their reality TV and TikTok makeup tutorial time though... Thought crime is very comparable to mainstream religion, huh?
Was just thinking this. Many women especially have already a lot of experience of the effect control and gaslighting to create confusion and make you question your own memory.
A terrific breakdown, i can think of a modern parallel to every point you make, absolutely terrifying
This book along with Animal Farm (I hated it but suffered through it), Fahrenheit 451, and The Good Earth amongst many others were foundational in my current understanding of events happening today.
Lotsa good philosophical treasures in these. If you havent read them i highly suggest reading.
Some of the things like the gaslighting and mental struggles in the 1984 book really ring true now, after years of living. Some experience, you can't get without living it. And theres a warning: you don't and shouldn't strive to live these things either.
Another good vid, thamks UA :)
What did you hate about Animal Farm?
@@johnkrstyenanimal farm was funny. I thought it was good
Fantastic work brother, I’ve been meaning to read this book, and I get a lot out of your videos, I like how you make them, thank you for sharing your takes on these sorts of things, very helpful
My native country became a dictatorship and I sadly recognize a lot of 1984 tropes in reality.
Sorry to hear that
You’re Canadian too?
Cuba! Totally brained washed!
Currently reading this and it keeps getting better and interesting it’s a slow burn
From my own personal experiences what you spoke about in the section "Language and Thought" is absolutely true.
I have struggled with anxiety around "Evil Thoughts" for most of my adult life. I expressed to my therapist that I was afraid of my thoughts making me a horrible person, but it took me a rambling half hour to do so, after I was done she summed it all up with me being afraid of "Thought Crime". Having a short, easy to reference term, made working around it so much easier. I can now remind myself that "Thought Crime is not real" as a tactic to stop the anxious loop in its tracks and redirect my mind onto healthier paths. (Does it always work? of course not. but its a helluva lot better)
Thinking of what you will think of next lows down a process, I read, helps in some way.
Slows*
This is one if not the best philosophical channnel in RUclips
I think I understand better now why I was mentally unable to read this when I was in highschool. I grew up in an emotionally/verbally abusive household with a LOT of gaslighting and thought policing, and I would read fiction as a means of escape. 1984 was not an escape, it was too close to home.
he didn't warn anyone, he prepared us for the fact that history repeats itself.
07:30 🧠 Orwell's novel "1984" highlights the importance of memory in personal identity, showing how the Party manipulates and distorts citizens' memories to control their perception of reality.
12:19 🗣 Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is deliberately designed by the Party to limit citizens' ability to express dissenting thoughts, effectively controlling their minds and emotions.
18:32 💔 Orwell's depiction of thought control and emotional manipulation in "1984" serves as a chilling warning about the dangers of authoritarian regimes suppressing individuality and autonomy.
18:59 🎭 The Party in "1984" demonizes passionate emotions like love and sexual desire to control citizens.
20:50 💭 Repression of emotions in Oceania leads to a constant state of guilt and shame among its inhabitants.
22:30 🧠 The Party in "1984" manipulates the definition of mental health to include compliance with its regime.
25:15 📡 Total surveillance in Oceania abolishes private life and promotes constant anxiety among its populace.
26:24 🤔 In Oceania, any private opinion is subsumed within the political sphere, promoting fear and anxiety.
29:40 ⚖ The absence of formal laws in Oceania implies that everything citizens do is the state's business, erasing personal autonomy.
31:03 💀 O'Brien's motivation to serve Big Brother stems from a desire for symbolic immortality, tying into human instinctive death denial.
36:52 🛡 O'Brien's portrayal as distinctly human serves as a warning against sacrificing individuality for a higher power.
38:43 🤔 Nosic's question about entering the pleasure machine challenges whether blind happiness or imperfect reality is preferred.
39:24 💔 Winston faces a painful dilemma: conform to the party's lies for comfort or resist for truth, representing a clash between ideals and pragmatism.
43:59 😓 Making moral choices in 1984's world is incredibly difficult, with harsh penalties in either direction, highlighting the complexity of ethical decision-making.
45:23 😔 Helplessness and hopelessness pervade 1984, reflecting the bleak reality faced by its characters, echoing Kafkaesque themes of despair and disempowerment.
48:06 🌍 The Party's relentless pursuit of power leads to existential crisis, as it nears omnipotence, potentially depriving it of purpose and hope.
52:29 😢 Big Brother's ultimate tragedy lies in its dependence on dissenters like Winston, revealing a deeper layer of despair within the Party's structure.
I hope you guys have a great birthday and I love this video.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
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I would die before I ever give in to such an evil repossession of my mind and body. This is why TRUTH is so unbelievably important. And I too agree that a broken system with criminals in the judges seats cannot possibly be respected by those who are on the bottom getting arrested on every new whim of the State!
that is your truth
Transparency is the ultimate disinfectant!
Wow, one of the best examinations of 1984 I’ve yet come across and brilliantly linked to other works and philosophical ideas. Eloquently and superbly presented. 👍
We the people keep the system alive because we have given our personal trust over to corrupted governments.As individuals we need very little,where as the government requires more and more from us.
@StarHuman-et2rk Any revolution starts slowly and gets bigger in numbers,and then it happens suddenly.
My friends I encourage you to all read 1984 as if you do not see that this might be happening right now or has happened then you are not seeing it truly. I encourage you all to be open minded,seek real news,and real life. Thank you for reading this and to you all God bless you all peace be with you.
because it's not there yet, or anywhere near it - yet. but it will easily become reality if we keep just saying: it's here now! No it's not! Be a responsible citizen and make sure that doesn't happen.
The creepiness of all of it? How many you have a cell phone that pay more attention to more than each other? Or the computer? I'm 45- read this book back in high school, had to write a report about the whole severity of the story... It's scary how accurate the story is.
Fun fact: 1984 is the most common novel that people lie about having read so they can use.
It’s my favourite book. I really hope more people actually read it. ❤️ Burmese Days is a great one too.
Incredibly impressive intrigue for my first show with you. I look forward to seeing more from you! Welcome to my list, good sir!! 😊
ngl, the idea of just shutting off my higher thinking and falling in line with allowing someone else to think for me completely sounds somehow freeing. I know i don't want it, i know its wrong, yet there is that small spark of how much easier it would all be to just stop fighting. And that is why its so easy for it to happen in the first place.
someone else thinking for you is total baloney. They don't know your body or the experience your brain and its thought process that results in "you". That's the same are as replacing someone actually good at the job with someone clearly incompetent but just charming or stylish.
The beauty of the modern focus group coupled with meta data means the 'system' can make choices for you, the choices you didn't even know you secretly desired. And because you can never truly know for sure if those were true desires and wants, you wont ever know if the focus group and meta isn't just one big blag to steal democracy and freedom.
I'm not a big reader, this is nice to listen to, it sad how our world is like this currently. But knowing the veil exist keeps our eyes open
There's a high quality audiobook on RUclips. Black and red cover I believe. You should seriously check out this book. It's more than politics.
this deserves more views, such a good video!!!
I had read 1984 in 8th grade and it gave me existential dread in the middle of English class
North Korea is pretty close to the dystopian reality of 1984 in real life.
And the rest of the world to a lesser degree especially America and U.K
Well yes, I do agree to a degree.
To me just into the video of less than 5 minutes in, I got chills when I heard big brother how many continents do big brother as a tv show… just saying I don’t believe in coincidences 😅.
I’m
In Australia and this sounds like most of the world including our country to me… this is scary more so when it seems like this book truly has been hidden me and most my mates I’ve asked never heard of this book at school or in passing 😅
You must not be privy to world around you.
So is america
It was mandatory reading in 9th grade in 1989 and now I bet they don't even read it anymore.
I like this. But you should now revisited “Brave New World”!
Can’t wait, because I am Native American. 🤔😀💕
Came for the content, stayed for the accent... Also, the content was outstanding! Well done!
I think this is the most comprehensive analysis of 1984 I’ve experienced. Thank you 👍
Listening to this for a second time, I am chilled to my core thinking about the parallels between Big Brother and organized religion... especially of the fundamentalist and conservative variety...
Imagine how you'll feel when you're an educated adult and can actually understand any of what you're saying
amazing analysis bro congrats
1984 = Scotland in 2024
Many more than Scotland, my friend. 😅
Why?
1984 = The entire world post 2019.
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I like how you're able to say this and still think this applies. The irony is amazing
@RS-zp1we not sure what your saying.
I would LOVE to hear your take on Gombrowicz's _Ferdydurke_ !
It is a truly fascinating and mind-boggling piece, and _1984_ 's theme of one's inability to express their own self reminded me of it in some ways :)
Great video as always!
I read 1984 in undergrad and tean years ago. you have inspired me to read this again as well as "a Brave new world." that too needs another look.
This was excellent. Truly. So ty! 🙏
I read 1984 in school and it frightened me to death. My whole life, I had free speech. Now, for example, when Black Lives Matter happened, i said, as a Christian, that every life matter, she screamed in my face calling me a racist. Now, every few weeks, I have to ask her what the new woke words are in case I offend someone or some group, unknowingly.
Well, it’s all context. Both “black lives matter” and “all lives matter” are correct. BLM was started to bring awareness to the injustice done to a specific racial group, and “all lives matter” was a slogan that was used in counter protests at the time by people who support the police during the George Floyd / BLM protests. It’s understandable why it triggers so many people to saying it in the context of the events.
It helps to step into the shoes of others who are caught up in these movements so we can create dialogue to help us understand each other better, instead of seeing someone lashing out at you emotionally and then labeling their movement as some 1984-like stuff. That’s how you create distance, and distance between fellow citizens makes things easier to become the way they are in 1984. The political divide in the US has blinded its citizens from the fact that most of them will be voting for one criminal over the other to be their next president, when there are much more worthy candidates out there not affiliated with the two major parties that have been playing this game and driving this country into the ground for decades.
a person using their free speech to yell at you about what you are saying is ALSO part of free speech. you are not forbidden to say "all lives matter". it's not written in the law. therefore, you are misinterpreting things, and doing so by attacking people opposed to you by conflating one woman's words at you with an entire oppressive regime THAT DOESN'T EXIST.
Indeed a fascinating dystopian novel, though one wonders why we're so fixated upon negative futures and not instead positive ones?
What is the positive side to this book? In your opinion
@@rosenunez4328 Well clearly a warning of a possible future if we don't wake up to and grapple with its causes... I refer you to Daniel Schmactenberger's talks, for a systemic understanding of how civilization gets caught into these cyclic negative traps
@@rosenunez4328Oceania is shown to have fallen in the afterword, but nobody reads that bit.
Love that you did this, one of the things I most often think about when I hear people quote Orwell and the context in which he is quoted is that these people can't have actually read the works.
Wonderful piece. I enjoyed revisiting the story and all of its poignant horrors. The frantic subtitles that seem to be so popular these make it unwatchable but the audio is sufficient.
You do an excellent job
In Calif.Go Newsome has gotten a copy of 1984 and is actually trying to implement it here
I grew up in Sweden, first generation. My parents were both Polish refugees, I am so happy they thought me never to trust any government. Anyone with that much power is inevitably corrupted. The only one I trust is God 🙏🏻
You have the best voice and you’re so good at narrating, excellent work young man! 🎉😊
Thanks for making these vids - a real person with a real English accent- I find it so nice to listen to- my mother was from Lancashire and I am American . But am so grateful for English culture - take care .
More like brave new world. Also check out clockwork orange.. From Stanley Kubrick. Good future material for you.
Ah I love both of those! I am defo planning to make videos on them in the future (though frankly, I have no idea how I would talk about A Clockwork Orange without RUclips throwing a complete fit)
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 see how others have covered it. But in your case, it'll be far more academic and pass the tests.
Bazed Lit Analyzer did a two and a half hour review on A Clockwork Orange. He has excellent takes. The subtitle is "AN MKULTRA FABLE".
1984? More like 2025-
Big brother is EN-SOC (English socialism) yes oceana is a socialist dystopia