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I recall Geroge Carlin talking about language being sanitized. Like shell shock is now PTSD (post traumatic disorder). Or special assignments is now assainations. Freedom fighters fight for freedom but then what do we call fire fighters? Republicans think a insurgency by white supremacists =freedom. ITs not exactly doublethink but it sure as hell is close. Or as a mother jones op ed back a few years ago took aim at how the trump administration used "defense" to describe the targeted killing (anther odd term- i mean you kill someone doesn't tht usually mean you did so deliberately?) of a Iranian general when no one was at war. Since when does defense mean attack first? Reminds me of the star trek episode where a grief stricken general in Starfleet justify a preemptive strike on Romulans because he believed they were violating a treaty. Jean Luc is shocked and confused as to why the captain, a respected one, keeps downplaying that what he did was illegal. Jean luc keeps pressing "we? Why are you saying we? i never agreed to anything, Starfleet didn't order you to attack romulans. did you have proof?"
My current favorite doublethink example is when one well-known individual stands in front of a fence, calls it a "wall" and then from that point on everyone else (those who support and those who oppose him) now refer to the fence as a "wall". It's fascinating to witness and frightening to know just how malleable the hivemind of the crowd full of automata can be.
I really like that you dont go the standard way of comparing 1984 to far-right/far-left acts of suppression and dictatorship like so many others, but look at the deeper picture about power structures itself. In a way i think it actually fits pretty good into the style of your videos, because you really have skill in deep diving into concepts and creating an engaging and thought provoking narrative/ worldview. Great video (so far, I'm only about half in at the moment)! You grew to be one of my favorite creators on the platform especially for your view on the topics you discuss, but I sadly sometimes have to postpone watching your stuff because it hits deeper than just surface entertainment. Hope you're doing well and your channel is surely going up again in no time!
It's really just that I get very annoyed by the constant use of "Orwellian" or "its like 1984" only to apply to surveillance or the like, so I really wanted to get into what feels like the real meat of it, the reason behind those things instead of just yelling about the execution. But, thank you for such kind words, I worry about how engaging I truly am, so I'm happy to see this one in a new wrapper, but with the same kind of writing, is being received well! I'm also happy to see that I grew to be one of your favorites; improving myself into that spot is much better to me that simply being there
Finished it now and it definitely kept the quality up, especially the last part. It really felt as if you knew these kind of situations and hardships all too well.
In essence, Doublethink is something like faithful zeal to a fault. Things are true due to being true. It's why I still to a church function as an anti-theist just not sermons if I can't ask questions there is no value in hearing what I know I will reject. I have become a fixture there because I am so odd but it lets the odd people talk. A gay socialist anarchist polyamorous autistic furry at a moderately conservative Baptist function of wealthy white people is going to be weird. I even make rice for them and this is because I find a kind of perverse comedy in that they all like it despite it being the cheapest food they have had in decades but it makes them easier to talk to. What a range of ideas they have. One lady, the only person I can call a true freind talks a lot about how she does not believe in Hell and about how they should be more feminist and queer-friendly... it's wild. I bring up the rice because she has _"This is a struggle meal"_ she said _"Damn good one, not a damn one of them will know, not even if I tell them"_ she can think through all my ideas to the point she can focus on rice. The dish's secret is just caramelized onions and vermouth. Just roasted onions a a wine they can never really decern the flavor of because it is unpopular... and they are Baptists so many don't drink.
If there is fear and fury and despair in your heart, let it animate you rather than crush you. Even if you flinch, do not freeze. Thanks for the lecture, Professor.
Well, it's more of a thanks to Orwell haha. I do really appriciate the praise, it is super validating, but I always shy away from the actual title of "professor," just because at the end of the day I'm just a person with an opinion. I feel its based on a lot of analysis, I would never publish something I thought unfounded, but I just worry about my word seeming to worthwhile. I always hope for a bit of criticism as well; I want to keep growing, and then one day I'll accept the title!
godam. This truly has to be one of the most thought provoking and insightful analysis I’ve seen of 1984 ever. The amount of emotion and FEELINGS you put in that ending call to action, is commendable. I appreciate the vulnerability you put up there, it connects.
Also I’d love to learn more about these ideas you discussed in the video. Are there any scholarly articles or journals that you read in the preparation for this video. I’d love to get some more research for it.
It’s nice to see a video on something that you genuinely enjoy, I hope it does well for the algorithm since it ain’t anime. It’s cool to see your content from different sources. Definetly enjoyed this one
I know this a different path you normally go down with your videos. I thank you for taking the risk, especially right now. Would you do a video on V for Vendetta, next? I think it would be a wondering pair with this video. Especially how the setup of how the villain gets in power has a lot of similarities on what has happened of recent.
I haven't seen that movie in years, but it is one I really enjoyed when I did see it. I'll keep a rewatch in mind, and maybe make something on it when I do!
I would agree the comic is one of my favorite works of fiction the movie is an extreme disappointment and it pains me that most people don’t know it was a comic before it was a movie.
@@LostTech-Priest same. Saw the movie first liked it enough, it was kinda odd, then read the comic, saw more reviews via online, learned a bit about anarchism and 80s British and reloaded that Americans do not get what Alan Moore was saying. Alan Moore was not talking about America. He was talking about British politics. Alan was not talking about Islamic terrorists and a 9/11 works (how could he) he was rehashing how a democratic government can turn to fascism willingly. Moore was not saying v for vendetta was a superhero comic in the traditional sense of good versus evil. He was arguing that political terror is still terror, that V while an anti-fascist was still a horrid person who was insane. Heck, the love forces the obligatory romance between the male and female leads (which gets worse when you realize v tortures Natalie Portman), but the movie’s ending is a romantic version of fascism dying. The comic is more blunt, less romantic, and ambiguous. The ending has the fascist government defeated but ..what next? There is no habitants that Britain will return to a safer place, Every has been brought to insanity and now seems to the next V-which actually may be a really bad moment.
You've done well for Orwell. Thank you for putting this out now, with what is going on not only in our country and society but the world more people need to see this. I look forward your future endeavors.
Commenting for the algorithm! Not sure what to say since I've never read this book before, although I have heard of it. I think a lot of people read it for school or something. But this was a very insightful summary! I enjoyed the editing, and how passionately you delivered all your lines. Times right now are... interesting, to say the least, so please do take care of yourself. Self-care is always important, but especially so right now.
This novel also scared me to freezing point the first time I read it. I read it thrice since. The development is utterly unforgiving and never fails carrying disquieting omens for this day and age. Your video does it justice and I hope it will spread the word, at least enticing watchers to have a quick dive into the uncomfortably familiar horrors of 1984. Thank you for the incredible dedication you put into every video you publish there on RUclips, they never fail to catch my interest and make me question apparent evidences.
I remember reading this in high school, and (spoilers) at the end of the book Winston describes his own death in third person. Hearing you talk about how only an individual can be in pain, and if he breaks and becomes one with the party then it is no longer his fears, it is “someone else’s brain” really just like tied it together for me, that his own death is one that can be clinically described as happening to someone else.
I thought on it for a while, and that was the only solution I could come up with that also fit within the themes. I'm glad it's connected some dots, I wasn't unconfident, but I was worried that point wouldn't connect
It definitely connected some dots! All of a sudden that last chapter reads like a masterpiece of thematic framing, one that ties together the entire purpose of the book. I know a lot of people in my class at the time just saw it as a book where horrible things happen to people, but you really nailed it as to WHY the book was written. A+ on your English homework for that one lol
I had a similar realization some time ago. The only things we can truly know are the things we personally experience, and that experience can be easily affected by others. I got into an argument with someone whose dad was a moon landing denier because I said, "Nobody here is ever going to walk on the moon themselves, so we have to take it on faith that the moon landing happened." Like, I believe it happened, but it's because I've been told it happened and being a moon landing denier is stupid and wrong in the social background I have. It is completely possible everyone involved was lying, but I won't be able to know because I'll never be able to meet them and judge for myself. I suppose there's the part of me that *wants* it to be true, but that's not going to matter to someone else whose reality is rooted in the moon landing being impossible. To that person, the truth is humans were unable to get to the moon in the 1950s (or whenever it happened, idk). To me, it's that they were. And to both of us, the other is wrong. Replace the moon landing with any sort of polarizing opinion, it still applies.
The depressing thing about this to me is the response to it. Some people will learn this and say "Well, I should learn all I can to compensate then," and others will say "then it doesn't matter what I do or don't learn." How we respond to the subjectivity of "truth" is more important than the actual truth I guess
YOUR video left me fearfull, and that dident drive me to action, that just left me paralysed, and wanting to feel good again, feel satisfied, i hva e everything i need, and i want to be happy, to feel joy!
Thank you for this dive into 1984. I've been meaning to read it myself but honestly I've been to scared to and I was right to be because I feel like that's one of the paths we are heading.. you're an amazing person please don't give up ether. I love your videos but remember your mental health is also important. Take a break if you need i know I'll still be here if you do and so will so many others. 💜
Whenever I’m worried I remember that my life is the blink of an eye in a vast storm that is the cosmos lasting until the last black holes evaporate….my life is infinitely meaningless to the universe which does not touch it but of ultimate meaning to myself. I listen to lot of Alan Watts as I go to bed…
An incredible and thought provoking video. I think this take on 1984 is most likely closer to what Orwell intended to communicate. Most interpretations tend to be very surface level and revolve around the element of government control which is just the tip of the iceberg. This book will, in my opinion at least, never cease to be relevant, no matter what time we live in we are always under this ever present threat of human complacency, especially so now seeing how so many people have so little interest in seeking the truth (Christ that sounds like such a cliche). Come to think about it, things might have always been this way with the only difference now being the uncontrolled spread of opinion. I am grateful that you put the time and effort into making this video.
The core concept behind not succumbing to the seemingly insurmountable weight of the ease of a hand wave or the difficulty of suspending your belief of something entirely because it matches too well with what you already agree with is such a powerful one. Seeing the prevalence of using blurrily defined abstract concepts to achieve this ease is one of the most frustrating things to see, and the growth of 'debate bro'-style content made me really pessimistic for a large span of my time in undergrad. I think it was exurb1a's video on Absurdism that got my mind out of that rut, and this video helped me connect the dots on why it did. It formed largely as a counterpoint to Existentialism in saying "yeah nothing might matter, but something might matter. honestly, who cares if there even is something that matters, I'll still try to find it". I don't think it works as a counterpoint to Doublethink as a concept, but on a felt level. Most of the drive from it comes from feeling a desire for meaning and deciding that feeling is valid without thought. In a sense it is a revolt against the pressures imposed by thought. I think the act of asking one to consider ones self as valuable enough to persist through a painful existence simply to continue a potential, and in some eyes unlikely, end of a search for meaning does work to use the same concept employed by big brother but in feeling rather than thought. If I feel I currently have no real meaning, and therefore I feel everything COULD be my real meaning. If real meaning could be anything, then any action not of rebellion against your situation for not presenting it to you is one against your self interest. I think the power exists in that is that it re-frames the individual at the center of their drive, if you truly look for purpose you need to see things for what they are which would be an impossibility while considering one's self as the same as their cause. I feel like this fluctuated between addressing the mental state caused by Doublethink the conditions leading to it in a kinda meandering way but I felt some connection between the ideas and this is my rambly exploration.
A book written as a warning against a thing that dwells in every society. Our mistake is in believing it can't happen... 'here' wherever that may be where we think we are safe. Historically, the evidence that societies that fall into this cultural cancer self-destruct... eventually, is no comfort, no cure for the pain. I thank you for this. Hope demands that your words will reach enough ears, inspire enough hearts to reject nihilism and reach out in kindness to those around them. Only in our care for each other, especially those we know not, can we resist the isolation that is essential to allow the horror. It can only win against the isolated and alone that has no hope of succor to turn to.
That's one of the hardest parts to really hold in my mind, that just because my country seemed to rule the world for a while doesn't exclude it, and maybe even makes it more likely to happen here. That image of "what once was" but never really was that drives it forward. I hope we can all care for each other throughout. I worry about my own capacity to do so at times, but a crucial aspect of Winston's manipulation and end was that he was alone, so we should do our best to prevent anyone being alone
hey there! ive been loving your videos for a while now and youre one of the only 2 channels i set to get notifications from! i really hope that "downswing" of your channel stops being around, especially since your last couple vids have been way better than your average imo :) and i also hope you wont get discouraged to keep going with your vids aswell. they are important to me, and to others aswell, no doubt. sth sth inspiring "sacrifices for your ideals are always worth it" sorry, you do this a lot better :)
Enjoyed very much. Can't say how many negative feelings I'm having afterwards, but I'll take that as a good thing, since I'm working on managing those in myself. Yay! Have a wonderful day.
“So you mean to say they've taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought? I think…” - Patrick Star (I’ll post something more thoughtful once I’ve had time to watch, but I wanted to help the algorithm for you early!!!)
Honestly, someone on every media production is slipping in little hints of or jokes alluding to serious works like this, so I kind of love that quote lol
More serious thoughts time. Plato teaches that democracy always devolves next into tyranny. As members of a democracy, we have to act remembering that we are just one step away from tyranny at all times. Aristotle teaches that “no man becomes a tyrant to get out of the cold.” Certain leaders will claim to seize government in the name of providing for our wants or needs, so we must be wary that those who rise to power on such claims may be after power for power’s sake. As Orwell teaches us, there are those who think power is an end…
14:00 Good job Prof. V, you got me to actually stop before spoilers. Normally I don't care but you convinced me to go and listen to the audiobook. I'll catch ya after I finish it.
@@ProfessorViraldefinitely appreciated the spoiler alert. Thank you for the video, it's been rough from the results and sucks knowing it'll still be worse to come. Here's to hope though, hope we can reach out and help one another
You hit me really hard at the end there. And now I gotta listen to it again. Because I didnt let it hurt me enough the first time around. Stamp it in over and over again so i can feel that viscous anger again st the people who keep this horrible world the same. They arent gonna claw me back.
It's an important thing to remember, I think we should all be angry and that the people saying "calm down" are either in bad faith or ill informed. But, take a calm moment for yourself as well
Well that was a powerfully impassioned monologue at the end there. Gonna listen to that again before asking a girl out tomorrow, strong SEIZE THE DAY vibes
I sat down and wrote whatever would come out about 10 minutes before I really needed to get it exported and uploaded. I'm glad that it's creating a drive for action though; all words are meaningless without leading to action, or to action through further thought. We never know who or what we are, ourselves or another's creation, but we know that we are taking the actions we take, and that they can be ours, so we have to take them
A small offering for those who need a sense of hope, we are a part of the system and it is part of us and that is terrifying. But we can still tear down the gears of the system if we work together. We have to act we should never listen to those in charge on how to do so. Though we may be in the time a double think that does not mean we have to indulge in a false hope A false belief or false happiness. There is meaning and doing things. That no one can give or take. After all a job well done is a feeling
Perfection is unachievable. The horrors of Orwell's vision depend on perfection. Do not despair by his thoughts by confusing the real with fiction. As that is exactly what Big Brother wants.
I don't believe that this exact vision will become real, it's nonsense. But I do believe we are witnessing the people who take power and the point of power, and that is terrifying
Not so much a fan of a lot of webcam footage in videos as I find it distracting or uncomforable to be watching someone talk to me (especially while I eat, which is most of my content time) - and also distracting in the sense that I kinda need visual aid when watching a video essay about a topic - but I love the analysis! I would abolutely love more "movie" or even "gaming" content, as long as it works out for you!
I find it's a fair criticism. I'm actually quite awkward at times, but I really trained myself to make eye contact, so I find videos that are all face to camera as quite natural to watch, but not everyone might. Im glad the content of the video was still worthwhile though; I'm fine with people treating this as a "podcast" so long as they still get to engage with it
@@ProfessorViral It took several hours to get through it, and while I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, I'm glad I watched it. It felt /important/ to watch. Thank you for making this.
The funny thing is that I hated English class in school because of terrible teachers (except for 10th grade, gotta shout out that one good year), and now I do it for fun lol
@@dean_l33 Yes. Librarians are proper and wouldn't host pornography :P A ban list over reaches the niche market that public school libraries choose from. That market is already regulated before librarians curate their stock. Some recent American bans just show ideological insecurity. I do speak with alarmist exaggeration. Hope you're well.
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv lol u, but in 1984, “It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck.” Like yapping so brainwashed and indulgent it's primal. Speaking in tongues. But as noted in the video above, folks are being linguistically cornered into this. Imagine something stealing so much of yourself. 🎃 We are not immune to propaganda.
19:26 Wtfwtfwtfwtfwtf that was one of the most profound things I have ever heard in my life. Woahh my god. I never liked the "mind makes reality" thing but the way you explained that and said that, oh my god, what the heck, i dont like this 😢 The mirror....
Ok but what separates double think from basic self debate? Like I wanna specialize in oil paints cause they dry slower and don’t have to worry about the paint I set aside to dry out, but I wanna specialize in gouache cause it dries faster and I can apply the next layer more quickly, I don’t have time to specialize in both. This is something that’s always missing in these conversations about double think.
Recognizing it as a contradiction is an immediate removal from doublethink. You're considering two options and truly weighing which makes one more valuable than the other. They aren't fully right or wrong, but simply compromises. Doublethink would be simply choosing whichever is more convenient in the moment without a thought of dedicating to one at all, asserting that it is the objectively correct one, and then the next momemt saying the opposite. In very short words, being aware of a contradiction at all defeats it
@ then that just sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy and not an actual thing to debate in a thought experiment. If the difference between self debate and double think is awareness then the problem isn’t double think but a symptom of something else that causes self debate to stay double think.
this was a really good and terrifying refresher on a book i haven't read since high school lol. maybe it's just me being self centered, but *damn* if $95 million spent in less than a year on anti trans ads doesn't sound like the two minutes of hate...... even the changing of the target from gay people to trans people. just.... hhhhhhhhhhh
I don't think it's too far off. There's a certain control in giving people someone to hate, and this world doesn't have Goldstein, so it has you and me instead
Ther is the galaxy quest quore "never give up , never surrender" that while cheesy, yes. Its over when its given up, and thank god said people in power have often a gfragile ego that very much can be hurt, maybe manipulated, that make people harder aware sell progressive stuff harder as people still, have power if they really can get behind something, or at least have a chance of something, whatever, also the system is broken and things probably need to change a lot and peoples relations if apathy is that dangerous and voting is taking as comfort, not a duty. And at least looking to the picture and not ignoring it. And ignorance doesnt make happy, if, ther ewouldnt be so many people be able to have fears exploited, if they were happy grounded people. Dunno but its probably time to educate people harder in basic people arguments nudging to have to think about it, And Truth , justice, compassion, love, can you have objective proof, its constructs, , but that can made be real if people believe. Ok i think it needs with something, you gotta have one opinion, start with something to be behind and correct if you have to. Ther ar ethings that can have meaning regardless, there can be some . I think thats the answer, we really need more room to trust in each other more i guess to, yeah. Also i really reccomand the serie sLexx thats really unique and good and , philosophical, if very horny. And the episode brigadoom is great, what i really find inspiting its so cartoonish bad in a cartoonish bad universe thats , really bad and we follow Three people still trying to fing a home, be horny i guess and do actually kill the divine shadow. Its dark but, good. Also philosophical pretty interesting stuff. Like the main trio is inspired by no exit. ther eis a name of the rose episode, and its a fun series. Plus the brunnen G song is really inspiring.
1984 messed me up, it didn't help me that I read the book while waiting in the dentists office, which made the reading much more unpleasant with the sounds of whiring machinery in the background
It's funny that the way the movie portrayed *that* scene very much felt like a dentists office as well. That may have actually be one of the worst places to read it haha
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I recall Geroge Carlin talking about language being sanitized. Like shell shock is now PTSD (post traumatic disorder). Or special assignments is now assainations. Freedom fighters fight for freedom but then what do we call fire fighters? Republicans think a insurgency by white supremacists =freedom. ITs not exactly doublethink but it sure as hell is close. Or as a mother jones op ed back a few years ago took aim at how the trump administration used "defense" to describe the targeted killing (anther odd term- i mean you kill someone doesn't tht usually mean you did so deliberately?) of a Iranian general when no one was at war. Since when does defense mean attack first? Reminds me of the star trek episode where a grief stricken general in Starfleet justify a preemptive strike on Romulans because he believed they were violating a treaty. Jean Luc is shocked and confused as to why the captain, a respected one, keeps downplaying that what he did was illegal. Jean luc keeps pressing "we? Why are you saying we? i never agreed to anything, Starfleet didn't order you to attack romulans. did you have proof?"
My current favorite doublethink example is when one well-known individual stands in front of a fence, calls it a "wall" and then from that point on everyone else (those who support and those who oppose him) now refer to the fence as a "wall". It's fascinating to witness and frightening to know just how malleable the hivemind of the crowd full of automata can be.
I really like that you dont go the standard way of comparing 1984 to far-right/far-left acts of suppression and dictatorship like so many others, but look at the deeper picture about power structures itself. In a way i think it actually fits pretty good into the style of your videos, because you really have skill in deep diving into concepts and creating an engaging and thought provoking narrative/ worldview.
Great video (so far, I'm only about half in at the moment)! You grew to be one of my favorite creators on the platform especially for your view on the topics you discuss, but I sadly sometimes have to postpone watching your stuff because it hits deeper than just surface entertainment. Hope you're doing well and your channel is surely going up again in no time!
It's really just that I get very annoyed by the constant use of "Orwellian" or "its like 1984" only to apply to surveillance or the like, so I really wanted to get into what feels like the real meat of it, the reason behind those things instead of just yelling about the execution. But, thank you for such kind words, I worry about how engaging I truly am, so I'm happy to see this one in a new wrapper, but with the same kind of writing, is being received well! I'm also happy to see that I grew to be one of your favorites; improving myself into that spot is much better to me that simply being there
Finished it now and it definitely kept the quality up, especially the last part. It really felt as if you knew these kind of situations and hardships all too well.
In essence, Doublethink is something like faithful zeal to a fault. Things are true due to being true. It's why I still to a church function as an anti-theist just not sermons if I can't ask questions there is no value in hearing what I know I will reject. I have become a fixture there because I am so odd but it lets the odd people talk.
A gay socialist anarchist polyamorous autistic furry at a moderately conservative Baptist function of wealthy white people is going to be weird. I even make rice for them and this is because I find a kind of perverse comedy in that they all like it despite it being the cheapest food they have had in decades but it makes them easier to talk to.
What a range of ideas they have. One lady, the only person I can call a true freind talks a lot about how she does not believe in Hell and about how they should be more feminist and queer-friendly... it's wild. I bring up the rice because she has _"This is a struggle meal"_ she said _"Damn good one, not a damn one of them will know, not even if I tell them"_ she can think through all my ideas to the point she can focus on rice.
The dish's secret is just caramelized onions and vermouth. Just roasted onions a a wine they can never really decern the flavor of because it is unpopular... and they are Baptists so many don't drink.
If there is fear and fury and despair in your heart, let it animate you rather than crush you. Even if you flinch, do not freeze.
Thanks for the lecture, Professor.
Well, it's more of a thanks to Orwell haha. I do really appriciate the praise, it is super validating, but I always shy away from the actual title of "professor," just because at the end of the day I'm just a person with an opinion. I feel its based on a lot of analysis, I would never publish something I thought unfounded, but I just worry about my word seeming to worthwhile. I always hope for a bit of criticism as well; I want to keep growing, and then one day I'll accept the title!
By sublimating into nothing, one can't die, because the void is eternal.
Taking the ultimate fear and making it an endless comfort
@@ProfessorViral for we are human and we are fear's, biggest nightmare! 😁
Damn, bro spittin bars
But don't stare too long into the void. The void is shy.
Consciously inducing unconsciousness is so interesting 👀👀👀
The scary part is when the conscious part becomes natural; becomes unconscious itself, and as such near unbreakable
youd get a kick out of meditation or hypnosis :)
godam. This truly has to be one of the most thought provoking and insightful analysis I’ve seen of 1984 ever. The amount of emotion and FEELINGS you put in that ending call to action, is commendable. I appreciate the vulnerability you put up there, it connects.
Also I’d love to learn more about these ideas you discussed in the video. Are there any scholarly articles or journals that you read in the preparation for this video. I’d love to get some more research for it.
It’s nice to see a video on something that you genuinely enjoy, I hope it does well for the algorithm since it ain’t anime. It’s cool to see your content from different sources. Definetly enjoyed this one
Thank you for the kind support! This was one I very much enjoyed, book videos made me feel smarty smart smart
I know this a different path you normally go down with your videos. I thank you for taking the risk, especially right now. Would you do a video on V for Vendetta, next? I think it would be a wondering pair with this video. Especially how the setup of how the villain gets in power has a lot of similarities on what has happened of recent.
I haven't seen that movie in years, but it is one I really enjoyed when I did see it. I'll keep a rewatch in mind, and maybe make something on it when I do!
AS long as it covers the comic, not the movie (the movie is an example with Hollywood's inability to understand fascism and anarchism)
I would agree the comic is one of my favorite works of fiction the movie is an extreme disappointment and it pains me that most people don’t know it was a comic before it was a movie.
@@ProfessorViralPlease and Thank You~!!!
@@LostTech-Priest same. Saw the movie first liked it enough, it was kinda odd, then read the comic, saw more reviews via online, learned a bit about anarchism and 80s British and reloaded that Americans do not get what Alan Moore was saying. Alan Moore was not talking about America. He was talking about British politics. Alan was not talking about Islamic terrorists and a 9/11 works (how could he) he was rehashing how a democratic government can turn to fascism willingly. Moore was not saying v for vendetta was a superhero comic in the traditional sense of good versus evil. He was arguing that political terror is still terror, that V while an anti-fascist was still a horrid person who was insane. Heck, the love forces the obligatory romance between the male and female leads (which gets worse when you realize v tortures Natalie Portman), but the movie’s ending is a romantic version of fascism dying. The comic is more blunt, less romantic, and ambiguous. The ending has the fascist government defeated but ..what next? There is no habitants that Britain will return to a safer place, Every has been brought to insanity and now seems to the next V-which actually may be a really bad moment.
You've done well for Orwell. Thank you for putting this out now, with what is going on not only in our country and society but the world more people need to see this. I look forward your future endeavors.
Thank you. I'm just some random person passing on what another passed on, but I do hope it can help in some way
I think O'brien was a member of the resistance - the resistance is the inner party. Doublethink: holding two mutually contradictory beliefs at once.
Commenting for the algorithm! Not sure what to say since I've never read this book before, although I have heard of it. I think a lot of people read it for school or something. But this was a very insightful summary! I enjoyed the editing, and how passionately you delivered all your lines. Times right now are... interesting, to say the least, so please do take care of yourself. Self-care is always important, but especially so right now.
This novel also scared me to freezing point the first time I read it. I read it thrice since. The development is utterly unforgiving and never fails carrying disquieting omens for this day and age. Your video does it justice and I hope it will spread the word, at least enticing watchers to have a quick dive into the uncomfortably familiar horrors of 1984. Thank you for the incredible dedication you put into every video you publish there on RUclips, they never fail to catch my interest and make me question apparent evidences.
Thank you for such kind and meaningful words. Truly, to see everyone really come out for this one has warmed my heart
I wish 1984 and Brave New World had been kept in the fiction category 😢
Then they wouldn’t be so good though
bro 1984 is literaly about soviet union
@@MarkoHolic no it was not, it was about a world worse than the Soviet Union
@penzorphallos3199 well it did , book was worse of corse but it did
I remember reading this in high school, and (spoilers) at the end of the book Winston describes his own death in third person. Hearing you talk about how only an individual can be in pain, and if he breaks and becomes one with the party then it is no longer his fears, it is “someone else’s brain” really just like tied it together for me, that his own death is one that can be clinically described as happening to someone else.
I thought on it for a while, and that was the only solution I could come up with that also fit within the themes. I'm glad it's connected some dots, I wasn't unconfident, but I was worried that point wouldn't connect
It definitely connected some dots! All of a sudden that last chapter reads like a masterpiece of thematic framing, one that ties together the entire purpose of the book. I know a lot of people in my class at the time just saw it as a book where horrible things happen to people, but you really nailed it as to WHY the book was written. A+ on your English homework for that one lol
I had a similar realization some time ago. The only things we can truly know are the things we personally experience, and that experience can be easily affected by others.
I got into an argument with someone whose dad was a moon landing denier because I said, "Nobody here is ever going to walk on the moon themselves, so we have to take it on faith that the moon landing happened." Like, I believe it happened, but it's because I've been told it happened and being a moon landing denier is stupid and wrong in the social background I have. It is completely possible everyone involved was lying, but I won't be able to know because I'll never be able to meet them and judge for myself. I suppose there's the part of me that *wants* it to be true, but that's not going to matter to someone else whose reality is rooted in the moon landing being impossible. To that person, the truth is humans were unable to get to the moon in the 1950s (or whenever it happened, idk). To me, it's that they were. And to both of us, the other is wrong.
Replace the moon landing with any sort of polarizing opinion, it still applies.
The depressing thing about this to me is the response to it. Some people will learn this and say "Well, I should learn all I can to compensate then," and others will say "then it doesn't matter what I do or don't learn." How we respond to the subjectivity of "truth" is more important than the actual truth I guess
YOUR video left me fearfull, and that dident drive me to action, that just left me paralysed, and wanting to feel good again, feel satisfied, i hva e everything i need, and i want to be happy, to feel joy!
Thank you for this dive into 1984. I've been meaning to read it myself but honestly I've been to scared to and I was right to be because I feel like that's one of the paths we are heading.. you're an amazing person please don't give up ether. I love your videos but remember your mental health is also important. Take a break if you need i know I'll still be here if you do and so will so many others. 💜
I don't think you could've dropped this at a better time, dude. Great work!
My timing was correct for once, instead of 10 years later haha. Thank you!
Whenever I’m worried I remember that my life is the blink of an eye in a vast storm that is the cosmos lasting until the last black holes evaporate….my life is infinitely meaningless to the universe which does not touch it but of ultimate meaning to myself.
I listen to lot of Alan Watts as I go to bed…
An incredible and thought provoking video. I think this take on 1984 is most likely closer to what Orwell intended to communicate. Most interpretations tend to be very surface level and revolve around the element of government control which is just the tip of the iceberg. This book will, in my opinion at least, never cease to be relevant, no matter what time we live in we are always under this ever present threat of human complacency, especially so now seeing how so many people have so little interest in seeking the truth (Christ that sounds like such a cliche). Come to think about it, things might have always been this way with the only difference now being the uncontrolled spread of opinion.
I am grateful that you put the time and effort into making this video.
The core concept behind not succumbing to the seemingly insurmountable weight of the ease of a hand wave or the difficulty of suspending your belief of something entirely because it matches too well with what you already agree with is such a powerful one. Seeing the prevalence of using blurrily defined abstract concepts to achieve this ease is one of the most frustrating things to see, and the growth of 'debate bro'-style content made me really pessimistic for a large span of my time in undergrad. I think it was exurb1a's video on Absurdism that got my mind out of that rut, and this video helped me connect the dots on why it did. It formed largely as a counterpoint to Existentialism in saying "yeah nothing might matter, but something might matter. honestly, who cares if there even is something that matters, I'll still try to find it". I don't think it works as a counterpoint to Doublethink as a concept, but on a felt level. Most of the drive from it comes from feeling a desire for meaning and deciding that feeling is valid without thought. In a sense it is a revolt against the pressures imposed by thought. I think the act of asking one to consider ones self as valuable enough to persist through a painful existence simply to continue a potential, and in some eyes unlikely, end of a search for meaning does work to use the same concept employed by big brother but in feeling rather than thought. If I feel I currently have no real meaning, and therefore I feel everything COULD be my real meaning. If real meaning could be anything, then any action not of rebellion against your situation for not presenting it to you is one against your self interest. I think the power exists in that is that it re-frames the individual at the center of their drive, if you truly look for purpose you need to see things for what they are which would be an impossibility while considering one's self as the same as their cause. I feel like this fluctuated between addressing the mental state caused by Doublethink the conditions leading to it in a kinda meandering way but I felt some connection between the ideas and this is my rambly exploration.
A book written as a warning against a thing that dwells in every society. Our mistake is in believing it can't happen... 'here' wherever that may be where we think we are safe. Historically, the evidence that societies that fall into this cultural cancer self-destruct... eventually, is no comfort, no cure for the pain. I thank you for this. Hope demands that your words will reach enough ears, inspire enough hearts to reject nihilism and reach out in kindness to those around them. Only in our care for each other, especially those we know not, can we resist the isolation that is essential to allow the horror. It can only win against the isolated and alone that has no hope of succor to turn to.
That's one of the hardest parts to really hold in my mind, that just because my country seemed to rule the world for a while doesn't exclude it, and maybe even makes it more likely to happen here. That image of "what once was" but never really was that drives it forward. I hope we can all care for each other throughout. I worry about my own capacity to do so at times, but a crucial aspect of Winston's manipulation and end was that he was alone, so we should do our best to prevent anyone being alone
hey there!
ive been loving your videos for a while now and youre one of the only 2 channels i set to get notifications from!
i really hope that "downswing" of your channel stops being around, especially since your last couple vids have been way better than your average imo :)
and i also hope you wont get discouraged to keep going with your vids aswell.
they are important to me, and to others aswell, no doubt.
sth sth inspiring "sacrifices for your ideals are always worth it"
sorry, you do this a lot better :)
Enjoyed very much. Can't say how many negative feelings I'm having afterwards, but I'll take that as a good thing, since I'm working on managing those in myself. Yay!
Have a wonderful day.
“So you mean to say they've taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought? I think…”
- Patrick Star
(I’ll post something more thoughtful once I’ve had time to watch, but I wanted to help the algorithm for you early!!!)
Honestly, someone on every media production is slipping in little hints of or jokes alluding to serious works like this, so I kind of love that quote lol
1 second in and I can already tell this video is gonna pop off.
I really did put a lot of work into getting the feel right at the start, so I'm glad it's been enjoyed!
That beginning, reminded me of my tshirt that says "to understand recursion you must first understand recursion". LOL
More serious thoughts time. Plato teaches that democracy always devolves next into tyranny. As members of a democracy, we have to act remembering that we are just one step away from tyranny at all times. Aristotle teaches that “no man becomes a tyrant to get out of the cold.” Certain leaders will claim to seize government in the name of providing for our wants or needs, so we must be wary that those who rise to power on such claims may be after power for power’s sake. As Orwell teaches us, there are those who think power is an end…
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Good job Prof. V, you got me to actually stop before spoilers. Normally I don't care but you convinced me to go and listen to the audiobook. I'll catch ya after I finish it.
Happy to see that I could- the experience will likely be fantastic
@@ProfessorViraldefinitely appreciated the spoiler alert.
Thank you for the video, it's been rough from the results and sucks knowing it'll still be worse to come. Here's to hope though, hope we can reach out and help one another
George Orwell knew something
Knowing that he built this novel of off witnessing the rise of real and terrible empires makes it all the more chilling
You hit me really hard at the end there.
And now I gotta listen to it again.
Because I didnt let it hurt me enough the first time around.
Stamp it in over and over again so i can feel that viscous anger again st the people who keep this horrible world the same. They arent gonna claw me back.
It's an important thing to remember, I think we should all be angry and that the people saying "calm down" are either in bad faith or ill informed. But, take a calm moment for yourself as well
Well that was a powerfully impassioned monologue at the end there. Gonna listen to that again before asking a girl out tomorrow, strong SEIZE THE DAY vibes
I sat down and wrote whatever would come out about 10 minutes before I really needed to get it exported and uploaded. I'm glad that it's creating a drive for action though; all words are meaningless without leading to action, or to action through further thought. We never know who or what we are, ourselves or another's creation, but we know that we are taking the actions we take, and that they can be ours, so we have to take them
A small offering for those who need a sense of hope, we are a part of the system and it is part of us and that is terrifying.
But we can still tear down the gears of the system if we work together.
We have to act we should never listen to those in charge on how to do so.
Though we may be in the time a double think that does not mean we have to indulge in a false hope
A false belief or false happiness.
There is meaning and doing things. That no one can give or take.
After all a job well done is a feeling
The stars only exist because I'm here to perceive them. ♥
Perfection is unachievable.
The horrors of Orwell's vision depend on perfection.
Do not despair by his thoughts by confusing the real with fiction.
As that is exactly what Big Brother wants.
I don't believe that this exact vision will become real, it's nonsense. But I do believe we are witnessing the people who take power and the point of power, and that is terrifying
Is big brother the books version of the illuminati or something? Like.. ?
Great work on this one
Thank you!
This is some awesome sauce stuff man
Not so much a fan of a lot of webcam footage in videos as I find it distracting or uncomforable to be watching someone talk to me (especially while I eat, which is most of my content time) - and also distracting in the sense that I kinda need visual aid when watching a video essay about a topic - but I love the analysis! I would abolutely love more "movie" or even "gaming" content, as long as it works out for you!
Ngl, you come off as a bit snobby...
@@Jazztral ???
I find it's a fair criticism. I'm actually quite awkward at times, but I really trained myself to make eye contact, so I find videos that are all face to camera as quite natural to watch, but not everyone might. Im glad the content of the video was still worthwhile though; I'm fine with people treating this as a "podcast" so long as they still get to engage with it
This totally hit hard
Glad that it could; I hope there's something valuable in that feeling for you
Great job 😊
Thank you!
If the algorithm doesn’t push this vid than we’re in literally 1984 lol.
it's not over.
I don't think it is; but I'll fight as if it's about to be at all times
Thank You Again ❤
Of course!
Thank you whi much for this video.
Of course, thank you for your time!
Alright, time to cook.
Hopefully you enjoy it!
@@ProfessorViral It took several hours to get through it, and while I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, I'm glad I watched it. It felt /important/ to watch.
Thank you for making this.
this will be an interesting watch in my English class lol
The funny thing is that I hated English class in school because of terrible teachers (except for 10th grade, gotta shout out that one good year), and now I do it for fun lol
Doublethink and Duckspeak. Those ideas are like, scary. Glad 1984 is taught in schools, till Cons/Reps add it to the burning list.
You mean taken off of public school libraries. Is that what you mean by the 'burning list'?
@@dean_l33 Yes. Librarians are proper and wouldn't host pornography :P A ban list over reaches the niche market that public school libraries choose from. That market is already regulated before librarians curate their stock. Some recent American bans just show ideological insecurity. I do speak with alarmist exaggeration.
Hope you're well.
What is duckspeak? Is that what quacks say?
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv lol u, but in 1984, “It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck.”
Like yapping so brainwashed and indulgent it's primal. Speaking in tongues. But as noted in the video above, folks are being linguistically cornered into this. Imagine something stealing so much of yourself. 🎃 We are not immune to propaganda.
19:26 Wtfwtfwtfwtfwtf that was one of the most profound things I have ever heard in my life. Woahh my god. I never liked the "mind makes reality" thing but the way you explained that and said that, oh my god, what the heck, i dont like this 😢
The mirror....
Thanks
Of course!
If I beleive every bad thing is fake, then i can be happy
the void of light is the same as the void of darkness
I like this guy
Thank you lol
@@ProfessorViral You honestly motivate me to start doing something useful on my own
Ok but what separates double think from basic self debate? Like I wanna specialize in oil paints cause they dry slower and don’t have to worry about the paint I set aside to dry out, but I wanna specialize in gouache cause it dries faster and I can apply the next layer more quickly, I don’t have time to specialize in both. This is something that’s always missing in these conversations about double think.
Recognizing it as a contradiction is an immediate removal from doublethink. You're considering two options and truly weighing which makes one more valuable than the other. They aren't fully right or wrong, but simply compromises. Doublethink would be simply choosing whichever is more convenient in the moment without a thought of dedicating to one at all, asserting that it is the objectively correct one, and then the next momemt saying the opposite. In very short words, being aware of a contradiction at all defeats it
@ then that just sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy and not an actual thing to debate in a thought experiment. If the difference between self debate and double think is awareness then the problem isn’t double think but a symptom of something else that causes self debate to stay double think.
this was a really good and terrifying refresher on a book i haven't read since high school lol. maybe it's just me being self centered, but *damn* if $95 million spent in less than a year on anti trans ads doesn't sound like the two minutes of hate...... even the changing of the target from gay people to trans people. just.... hhhhhhhhhhh
oki i wrote this before the final segment and,,,, yeahhhhhhhp the present and future are grim. the tone is a major mood
I don't think it's too far off. There's a certain control in giving people someone to hate, and this world doesn't have Goldstein, so it has you and me instead
oh so thats what ive been doing is called
i should probably stop doing that
I love that we live in a world where a womanizing colonizer is capable of creating something so genuinely amazing.
pr china living in orwell 84 rn
Ther is the galaxy quest quore "never give up , never surrender" that while cheesy, yes.
Its over when its given up, and thank god said people in power have often a gfragile ego that very much can be hurt, maybe manipulated, that make people harder aware sell progressive stuff harder as people still, have power if they really can get behind something, or at least have a chance of something, whatever, also the system is broken and things probably need to change a lot and peoples relations if apathy is that dangerous and voting is taking as comfort, not a duty. And at least looking to the picture and not ignoring it.
And ignorance doesnt make happy, if, ther ewouldnt be so many people be able to have fears exploited, if they were happy grounded people. Dunno but its probably time to educate people harder in basic people arguments nudging to have to think about it,
And Truth , justice, compassion, love, can you have objective proof, its constructs, , but that can made be real if people believe.
Ok i think it needs with something, you gotta have one opinion, start with something to be behind and correct if you have to.
Ther ar ethings that can have meaning regardless, there can be some . I think thats the answer, we really need more room to trust in each other more i guess to, yeah.
Also i really reccomand the serie sLexx thats really unique and good and , philosophical, if very horny. And the episode brigadoom is great, what i really find inspiting its so cartoonish bad in a cartoonish bad universe thats , really bad and we follow Three people still trying to fing a home, be horny i guess and do actually kill the divine shadow. Its dark but, good. Also philosophical pretty interesting stuff.
Like the main trio is inspired by no exit. ther eis a name of the rose episode, and its a fun series.
Plus the brunnen G song is really inspiring.
Please do vivi flourite eyes song
Yipppeeeee
Thank you for such quick support!
This is how you thank Terrance Howard for Terryology!? So ungrateful.
Honestly had no idea what this meant until I googled it, and actually what is that man on
new video 🎉
Thank you for such quick support, it is really appreciated!
I don't like torture.
👍👍❗💙
Thanks!
Where in nature does 1+1 =3? Everywhere.
1 mama + 1 papa = 1 son
Red is blue
No, Red is the final boss, Blue is the 8th gym leader
because you have not been paying attention
A yes, a baseless one sentence comment insulting me with no detail, this hurts so much
@@ProfessorViral sorry, i didn't mean it that way. i was quoting 2+2=5 by radiohead. my bad
Engagement Engagemen
I normally joke, but on this one I just want to give a genuine thanks : )
@ No u
Ah. Pittsburgh
On mobile, google gave me the option to translate this from "Ah Pittsburgh" to "Ah Pittsburgh"
jor jor well
The long lost brother of jar jar binks
Algorithm bait
I actually think you guys are the "everything is nothing" generation.
What generation do you think I am? Because it's probably a wrong guess haha
1984 messed me up, it didn't help me that I read the book while waiting in the dentists office, which made the reading much more unpleasant with the sounds of whiring machinery in the background
It's funny that the way the movie portrayed *that* scene very much felt like a dentists office as well. That may have actually be one of the worst places to read it haha