The Dystopian World of 1984 Explained
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George Orwell's novel has been brought up recently. Many terms and facts are used. The world he crafted doses have some similarities, but it in itself is dystopian in its own right. What caused this to happen? What made 1984 such a dark novel that Orwellian is now a term? This is one video to explain.
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Seriously go read the book though
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It seems interesting. You inspired me to read disunited states of america, guns of the south world war Z and man in the high castle. Also how about you do a video on the lore of a diffrent flesh. Written by harry turtledove it's about what if homo sapiens never went into america, but homo erectus, and megafauna all over the world survives longer. Or down in the bottomlands about what if in the miocene period the mediterranean sea never existed, and is replaced by a sea of salt.
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Please make this a series, I'd love to hear your take on Brave New World!
Emperor Leroy Melina is not Mexican
One of the scariest part of the book for me was when one of the characters describes how people can never know about freedom or liberty if those concepts and words dont exist.
Seems eerily similar with some groups today trying to change language in the pretext of being more "inclusive"
@@AlejandroDeYavorsky159 It is absolutely nothing like that, that is a daft comparison
@@iamaleftist3834 lmao yeah let's listen to someone called "I Am Leftist"
@@xvor_tex8577 Wow you must be so smart, imagine dismissing an entire argument based on somebody's username Question, what would your response be had my name been let's say Jim2000?
@@iamaleftist3834 That Jim2000 had claimed *without evidence* that "a daft comparison" had been made.
“You can say whatever you want when you raise generations to worship you.” Very important statement.
Note taken
Ooohhhhhh... shit.
Mao?
@@calvinjohnstone2664 Even worse.
Islam is in control of Facebook Instagram Twitter. You can insult Christianity in their platforms as much as you want but never Islam. Try mentioning Tommy Robinson you'll get banned. Seriously. If this continues, 1984 will happen. Imagine China today.
I think the scariest part is by far newspeak. Eliminating anti-party thoughts by restricting and eliminating freethinking capability in itself
And how many concepts and words are we being conditioned to erase from our thinking in 2022? The difference is that the state does not have to use overt coercion; it is done by mobs attacking you with the accusation of bullying, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, or taking offense of an increasing number of topics. ANY topic needs to be able to be discussed in a free society; even topics we find distasteful.
Cancel culture
It’s like all the new Republican dogwhistles lol
@@thebuilder5271 retard. leftists literally want to curb the 1st amendment 😂 go read a book moron
@@thebuilder5271 what
Just finished the book today and it’s honestly soul crushing
As many have already said. Wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual. Orwell would turn in his grave if he could see the world now
I finished it yesterday and I agree with your expression...
A boot on a man's face. Forever.
At the beginning of the lockdowns I loaded up the audiobook. It was bedtime and I thought I was going to fall asleep to it. 10 and a half hours later I'm on the edge of the bed with my mouth hanging open wondering if Orwell really was a time traveler
@@BurnDoubt ya lmao, I’m not surprised we don’t read that book in school anymore
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bleach drinker it's in room 101
genaricname69 On floor 2007
bleach drinker thot police
bleach drinker it has been destroyed by Minitru
*POILCE*
Orwell: *Publishes 1984* "Yo, guys, totalitarianism is bad. Read this book, it'll scare you shitless." Me: "Oh my god, this is the most terrifying book I've ever read in my entire life!" Politicians: "Ooh! Look, an instruction manual!"
Kai M.K. Bullock *North Korea
North Korea : oh! This is a good idea.
Kai M.K. Bullock Not really. This book is not written to make you scare, but rather to warn you.
Why not both?
u think nsa is not watching u?
Fun Fact: 1984 was an early inspiration for Half-Life 2, and some elements of 1984 are still present in the game as well. Like cities just referred as City XX, like with City 17. And most of the citizens barely remember their past before the Combine invaded earth.
The screens around the city also remind the Big Brother.
I'm not surprised as HL2 is very "Orwellian" but this is a totally "outside" Alien Invasion story.....I'm curious why the aliens do what they do...I guess we might know but HL3 never existed....OOOFF
U r an idiot
@@TheBfutgregwe already know why they do what they do.
I guess then they are still looking for a new inspiration for Half-Life 3!
One thing I wish had been in the video is that all of this backstory could be completely made up considering how untrustworthy Oceania is. The characters don’t even know for sure that the year is 1984. The deuteragonist Julia didn’t even think the war was real and believed that Ingsoc only actually controlled England (and just England, not even the entire former UK), with the rest of the world at peace and relatively better off. By the end, the novel neither confirms nor denies her suspicions.
An excellent comment! Although, the story , I think, was meant to be more of an allegorical tale, like Orwell's "Animal Farm". It really didn't matter what year it was, or what country it was set in, much like Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". 🔥
Fun Fact: *This book was banned in the entirety of the eastern bloc.*
It's not banned anymore, at least in the Baltic States where I live. Recently bought it in a normal bookstore, and the police have yet to show up at my house.
@@MinMinn192 , understand that I said 'was', during the later Soviet era it was banned. It's not banned anymore, though.
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Not in Russia tis not. I had to read it in college.
The Slavic Bear I saw you in the comments of the Filipino national anthem
“The Obliteration of Self” Best emo band name
More like a Buddhist death metal band
I bet they’d sound like pageninetynine
Fathers Razor
It's really on the nose
It's basiacly a death cult,it even says that in the book.
Given recent history and the way "society" is headed, I think more people need to revive this old classic.
Precisely.
Worth noting that the book wasn't a blanket prediction for the future but a prediction for the future, if the environment of unpopular dietary control ration couponing in WW2 Britain never stopped and NATO became a country. That's more or less what Orwell was worried about.
Wait till emos be like: omg he’s literally me
Haven’t heard/seen someone say emo in years, Christ alive
No, it's not just a direction we're headed. Everything, from the United States, to Russia, to England, etc, all of it makes 1984 real. If there's a larger entity pushing any kind of mythological ideology, it's oppressive.
I had to read Animal Farm in eighth grade and there are some deep themes even in that book. Since then I heard more about George Orwell and 1984, so I finally decided to read it, and am more amazed every day how prophetic it actually is.
Hi - I have been a fan of Orwell and his books for some time. I am English and his writing comes from an English age of literature that is a really great source of reflection on how state control has emerged to control more and more of the individual. Read also Aldous Huxley and his amazing book Brave New World. He experimented with LSD and became very interested in modern philosophy. But the main point is about these books like 1984 and Brave New World is that they were a warning. But unfortunately the warning has not been taken seriously and have in fact provided a blue print for those currently in charge of China, Russia and North Korea. And not let's forget the attempt by Donald Trump to use fake news and claim everyone else was producing fake news against him, to stay in power and stage an attempted coup at Capital Hill. The US needs to think clearly about who they trust in government and why people like Trump got away with becoming the worst president of the US in history, and then attempt to overthrow the newly elected President with violence and lies. ( Newspeak )
He did his research. It's not prophecy. It's a documentary.
Animal Farm is an incoherent pile of dogshit. Hard to believe that the same guy wrote 1984.
animal farm is amazing
@@sm1purplmurderedme583 It's an incoherent and boring mess. 1984 much better.
Forget vampires, zombies, werewolves, xenocidal aliens or cosmic horrors; 1984 is the most bone-chilling and terrifying piece of fiction I have ever interacted with in my whole life.
@@37boy60 what’s that about? I play the game but have never heard of it
@@37boy60 that sounds cool is it like on par with kaiserreich
2020 says fiction? hold my beer.
What’s scary is that it’s closer to non fiction than most people realize.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Precisely.
*[THIS COMMENT WAS DELETED BY THE MINISTRY OF LOVE]*
[IT WAS NEVER THERE]
Whoa. We overthrown INGSOC. Glory to the USA
It should be removed by minitrue
[THIS PRO INGSOC COMMENT WAS DELETED BY THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT] The INGSOC party has been executed, the people are celebrating, may this new government be wise and fair
Ministry of Love is scary
As someone with pretty bad memory and self doubt issues, the idea that at any time the government could just completely change what is true and what is false and no one would even acknowledge that anything changed at all is terrifying to me. Because I could totally see myself falling for that.
Do you have ADHD?
Good lord, no. Any change is like pulling teeth. What's easy is keeping what is normal going. You think can fall into a dystopian future written in 1984. We are in fact coming out of it. It's why you can find real.qirld examples. Heck, study history. The other examples fo way back in time. Changing is hard. Maintaining is easy.
Chances are that it did happen once and it's absolutely scary
it's happening now.
this happened after WW2 where with help from the US japan deleted any trace or documents of Unit 731 the most horrible atrocities ever committed and in japan for a few decades it was just an accepted fact that Unit 731 never happened and that it was just a fictional story until somebody proved otherwise by leaking the immunity deal between japan and the us@@JamesTDG
Most people read this book and see it as a warning, but it's scary how some read it as an instruction manual.
My first mistake was reading it like an instruction manual
Everyone who disagrees with me uses it as a manual
What do you mean?
@@j.c.k.8639 He means that they read the book as a manual of "what to do if you find yourself living in a dictatorship" but in reality it is a warning of why we should not let a dictatorship happen
@@Overthinking-rain ahh, oki... Viva la revolution
Ingsoc: "Eurasia has always been our greatest ally against the evil East Asia in the war against Eurasia with our great ally East Asia."
CosmoDrone I had to reread this comment four times to understand.
@Sean Wilkinson FOUR minutes? EURASIAN SPY!
USA in a nutshell.
@Yoshi Does Stuff lol I could not agree more
@@someonesomewhere8065 Not "USA in a nutshell." but rather Television Propaganda of many Nations...
INGSOC: "Reality can be whatever i want"
Owen Wilson Thanos is a registered INGSOC Party voter.
Griff oneca He works for INGSOC, using his infinity gauntlet to spy on people.
What do you mean Owen? What you want IS reality.
@@williamhall6651 i want a bitch with a fat cake to beat the skin off my dick but sadly that is not reality
@@georgedrippington1610 same Owen. Same
A few years ago I was playing video games and remembered a Subway ad. A bit later I was scrolling a bit through youtube and it was on my recommended. I told my mom how funny it was and said jokingly: "Big Brother is watching you." Later I was scrolling through youtube again and there was the ad again but also with this video right above it...
The last few chapters of the book push any creative person's mentality to a level of stress that I didn't even know was possible.
1984 is by far the darkest book I’ve ever read. I felt physically ill reading the last third of it
Idk Lolita is a pretty fucking dark book
I still remember the last part, when the torture happened. The whole mental to made feel so bad, as if it was happening to me but in a different level. Orwell did a great job with this book.
but wait...I'm running out of book pretty quickly but there's still time for it to turn around and for things to start getting better...then it just keeps barrelling down hill as you have less and less left to read and you lose hope as characters you're reading about do the same. Only read it once, had to go re-read The Road after to cheer meself up :)
Gazmus Exactly. I kept thinking that Winston would end up destroy the Ministry of Love from the inside or there would be some sort of rebellion in England, but it just never happened
Johnny Got His Gun *shivers*
For those wondering, yes, this is infact, literally 1984
And for those who research, the book is about conditions in the Soviet Union in 1948
Thanks for telling us, we wouldn't have known without you telling us since there are no funni colors
@@Perry_the_Clobbopus Some people tell me it's about this guy called Brandon. But those people tend to have the crazy eyes of a person who hasn't slept in months, and feed their children "oils" when they're sick, rather than take them to a hospital. Or belive dead people are coming back to be governors or something. I dunno, they can't read so I dunno why they telling me about books.
You actually don't know whether it is 1984. Winston just guessed the year at the beginning of the story and that's it
@@Imgoingtokillyourdog Actually, that is my name. My name is Brandon lel
The only sliver of optimism in 1984 is when it explains newspeak after the end of the book: "Newspeak was". WAS. That single verb is the only word in the entire novel that makes us think that the world of 1984 will ever cease to exist.
Newspeak was outdated since it later was no need of speaking to one and another
Plenty of examples of dictatorships falling simply because when the people unite what can they do
@Subby1807 many dictatorships only work when they successfully pit people against each other and make them afraid of everyone who's "different"
@@Subby1807 The people CAN'T unite in 1984 though. That's the thing. INGSOC has removed the very concept of personal liberty from Human psyche.
@@NorthernNorthdude91749 doesnt make it impossimble though it takes 1 man to plant the seed
The fact Orwell managed to make such a masterpiece while dying of TB. It’s crazy.
“They’re afraid of love, cause love makes a world they can’t control”
And what about the love of Big brother ?
@@danieldudin4071 I think there was some-sort of Irony, in That-Final-Line.
@Josef and The Amazing Technicolor Lampshade ... Okay. Sorry, what are You saying?
“ Big Brother is all about love. Why don't you see ? The Big Brother is too afraid to let you go ! He's always behind you every step you make, every breath you take. He's simply very caring about you that if you're not sharing with him the love he profess toward you, he's either renew faith and love in you or simply destroy you ! Look at it this way, if he does not love you then why he even care about you ? ”
@Ben Shapiro's Yamaka hence, the war against marriage and the family?
1984 wasn't necessarily the actual year. It's just Winton's best guess as to the year.
Mark Mendel What an idiot! Everyone knows the year will be 2020
Actually, George Orwell called his book "1984" because he finished writing it in 1948 and reversed the last two digits of that year (the book was officially published the next year).
Michael Palmieri that's sadly a common myth. It went through a few titles (1980, 1982, 1948 and the last man in Europe). His publish changed the name to 1984 so it would be more marketable and the only reason he chose that date is it's a ref rename to his wife's poem 'the end of the world, 1984' and their love for Jack Londons book The Iron Heel, which takes place in the same year
The TRUE year is April 2024. The capitalism rules as as it stands. The name of the capitalist are #1 Google #2 Facebook #3 Twitter All privately owned. (Capital) In 2024 when 5G dominates the world capitalism we be a thing of the past for all that have not capitalized for the union of all the world to gather as one people....The Human Race.
It should be renamed to 2030
The line that gets me is O'Brien's remark to Winston Smith: "If you want to imagine the future, picture a boot stamping on a human face... forever." I may not have quoted the line exactly as it is in the book, but the meaning is there and it's a terrifying thought.
"It was all a dream. It never happened. There is no cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo."
, said...."(fill in the blank)". I can't wait.
One of my favorite theories about this book is that Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia and all that never actually happened, but that unfair only exists in Great Britain, with nobody knowing any better because they are completely cut off from the rest of the world.
That's why it's such a great book, there's so many different theories you can come up with about it :) its one of the reasons I'm glad no-one can milk it for sequels bc I know that they would explain and ruin everything
It is suggested at one point that probably there is no war, there is no Oceania, Eurasia or Eastasia and not even a Big Brother. Since the truth is decided by the party we don't know what is real or what is not and the truth is nothing more than a instrument of the party
That's kind of like North Korea. They literally don't know anything about the outside world.
@@URProductions the people of north Korea at least know something even if highly twisted by propaganda, in 1984 nobody knows anything
@@Am_Yeff ye it’s pretty far gone
I read 1984 and IT. 1984 was scarier. Usually these books end in a resolution - Orwell made sure that a world in this state could realistically never be reverted, and those attempting to will end up like Winston.
It is really scary. After I was done with the book I tried to imagine what I would do in that situation. Even in this reality i could feel the party squeezing the life from me. THERE IS NO WAY TO OVERTHROW THE PARTY.
@@Wateryshroomdude after reading the book I was feeling really really down (like a short depression) for about a week or two for this exact reason.
@@YagamiTrala It gets worse once you realise its already happening. Governments slowly encroaching, saying "its for you own good".
@Karl Quetzacoatl Yes. Although simplifying my thoughts into one ideology is dangerous, I would say ancap is better than most things.
afaik, the end of the book speaks of the regime in past tense, meaning that it was in fact overthrown
Fun fact: Kim Jong Un was born in the year 1984
😳😨🤯
I'm currently halfway through the book. I'm telling you, I've read over 400 books in my life and I'm sure, before even finishing it that it'll definitely earn a place in my top 10 books of all time.
Name them. Please.
At 2:07 it’s mentioned that a town in England called Colchester was nuked, but London was not. As someone who lives in Colchester I can confirm that we got nuked because Colchester is a military garrison town and so would probably hold some strategic advantage to destroy. Not important or relevant information but I thought it would be interesting for people to know :)
made me laugh when he said major city, then col kester hahahah
Or they just didn’t like Colchester
Not irrelevant. In Orwells day im pretty sure Colchester MB was well used so would have been a major target in an all out war, albeit I dont understand why Eurasia or Eastasia wouldnt nuke a major city like London as well though.....
yea
@@oddpoppetesq.3467 i suppose its because the nations want the war to perpetually continue. Without the war the people would question why their lives are so shitty.(revolution?) But as long as there is conflict the people can be rallied against a "common cause' War is peace
And remember kids: "1984" is a cautionary tale,and NOT an instruction manual!
but I was going to take over Mexico :(
That comment doesn't exists.
You read it I assume?
@@MrDrProffPatrick Yes, multiple times. Airstrip One is a miserable place to live...
@@robertlafayette2715 and winston's tale? is that not a manual on quiet rebellion?
Don’t just read it. Read it when you are young for curiosity, then revisit it at points throughout life as you know more about propaganda and politics. It’s a great book
My favorite type of person who talks about 1984 is the one that never read it, it’s amazing to see
The comments here are full of those people
The scariest thing is that you read the book through Winston's eyes. Everything he thinks or sees is how *he* perceives it. And considering that (spoiler) it's revealed he's been under vigilance pretty much his whole adult life, stuff such as the war between Eastasia or Eurasia might not be true. Hell, for all we know Eastasia and Eurasia might not even exist.
Omg!!! It just striked my mind now. Fuck I'm having trust issues now. (Seems like everything is a lie)
Or he might have schizophrenia or something
@albert einstien strange.. first thing that comes to me is ccp. Are you chinese propaganda or somthing?
@albert einstien China, Britain too
@Communist Detective Naruto Uzumaki Japan is kinda sorta becoming one of them. More military spending, a rise in extreme right wing factions etc.
One thing you have to bear in mind with 1984 is that literally nothing can be taken at face value. It's entirely possible that the party is a world government and that Eurasia and Eastasia are just fictions to justify a permanent war footing that only exists to suppress the populace. Equally it could be that airstrip 1 is little more than a banana republic with little standing on the world stage and the party is indulging In North Korean self aggrandisement. We don't even know for sure that the year is 1984.
Literally nothing can be taken at face value. Oh so like the mainstream media 2015 onwards? kzhead.info/sun/p8ZugLSmrKdplas/bejne.html kzhead.info/sun/Y9uGaaVlmGSViqM/bejne.html Check this one 0:50 onwards, the staging is once again obvious as fuck. It's not just CNN, they've just been caught red-handed recently, see this after the first video link I sent you, does anyone seem familiar? www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40149802/turn-to-love-message-from-muslims-after-london-bridge-attack
It's funny that memes are a better and more reliable source of news than official multi-billion dollar networks
I love how someone writes a comment based on a work of fiction and someone has to come out of the wood work and scream about how the water is makin' the friggin frogs gay.
Didn't they capture a bunch of Eurasian solidees in the book? I know there were enemy ones, ay least. So I doubt they have nothing on the world stage.
hot take here
I read this book in high school as it was required reading. Never thought parts of it would begin in my lifetime. We were warned.
Why doesn't 1984 have a good ending?
@@heroicpower3479 because it's speculative fiction.
You either barely read it or lacked media literacy. The book was political satire. There is no thought police, there is no double think, there is no unpersoning.
to me the most terrifying thing about this story was the complete absence of truth in this world. if no one knows whats true anymore and you have the power to do so, it‘s up to you to decide whats the truth. orwell even said something like „we live in a world where the concept of truth seems to disappear. in the future the lie will be used as the truth for all means“ i‘m sorry i don‘t remember the exact quote. and with social media and more and more polarizing politicians we are marching straight into this world of lies and misinformation. in fact, we are already there. we‘re just lucky that we all still have enough to eat, work and shelter. as soon as this turns we will walk right into it… and i‘m talking about EVERY political side and EVERY ideology.
Speak the truth publicly today and face the consequences.
this is literally 1984
The year I was born. I always felt that we were the first of the experiment babies and that the concept of reality is always to be questioned.
The thing about 1984 is that we don’t know if much of the information we gather about the world is even correct. O’Brien admits to writing the book that gives a lot of history and background on the world to Winston so it has a good chance of being false. For all we know Oceana only consists of the British isles or the super states of Eurasia and Eastasia do not exist. There is no way to know for sure.
I thought about this a while ago, it's entirely possible for that to be true
so north korea
[SPOILER] There is 2 whole chapters that basically repeats itself twice when Winston reads Goldsteins book and it mentions the regions that mark the borders of the nations
@@colton1325 for all we know, it might be false, since it was given to Winston by a party member
@@colton1325 it was written by party to bait people into believing in some kind of resistance, for all we know it might be possible that Goldstein didn't even exist
Ingsoc is the government equivalent to the "it has always been" meme
Pretty much
"Always has been" - Impostor to among us crewmate, somewhere in space
So Ingsoc is basically a what if Ohio took over the world.
Ingsoc means English socialism in Newspeak... the book is amazing a must read. The dread and feelings the book creates while you read is real, so much he wrote is mirrored in today’s political atmosphere and society.
Yet you're a mask wearing meme yourself.
Loved this video, would love to see you do a video on Brave new world, and maybe a comparison between these two.
One quote I may be paraphrasing a bit often helps me write things down for my mental health: "The face of O'brien, not called upon by any obvious factor, flashed into his mind. It became clear in that moment that he was writing this journal for- to, O'brien." Just kinda helps that you can write it for someone without them reading it
but he did read it...
this is a weird analogy because o’brien did read it and used it as a reason to torture winston….
@F Wolf At the end. In that moment he was under the impression nobody was ever going to touch or see his journal, yet he continued to write in it despite ot not having a meaning at that time.
To put it in simple term: *Those who control the information, Control the World*
Knowledge is power.
@almightyinferno power corrupts, absolute power corrupts all.
Only if everyone in the world does the same read the book between 240 and 280 pages goldestein knows what he's talking about
@@rodU65 you might even say it...corrupts absolutely
Hastytkd Lmao.
This helped me with my essay, thanks Cody
He who conquers the past, commands the future.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. - Sun Tzu It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. - Buddha
You mean the present?
@@Eric345 It's a Command and Conquer reference
And who controls the present, controls the past.
Red alert basically
What Orwell did to make this book: *Combines USSR and Nazi Germany and cranks it up to eleven* Orwell: perfection.
Its basically similar to North Korea.
@Henk van der Laak Nazbol?
Nazi Gulags... Nazgul... ...
No, Nazism and Communism are only relatable in an economic sense of extensive rationing and socialist policies, Both were built on the idea of war to spread their influence, war that makes progress and ends in victory, 1984’s world is reliant on war making no progress, to fail to achieve any objective worth a damn, and they didn’t have the total control over information, this may be due to foreign meddling and the fact that most of their subjects weren’t apart of their nations but rather conquered or puppeted, not loyal to the regime.
Every Empire had Citizens (I.E. Motherland citizens) and subjects, Roman citizens/Roman subjects, British citizens/British subjects, Prussian, Portuguese, French, every damned one, A Citizen can reasonably be expected to be loyal to their home country, but why would a man with a boot on his neck praise the boot...
Just read 1984 at the age of 63. A masterpiece!...and chillingly prophetic.
Great Video! Glad I found this channel!
George Orwell: here's my new book, 1984! Kim Jong-il: Write that down! *WRITE THAT DOWN!*
It was actually Kim il-sung, just like to point that out
Is it true even that Kim il sung read 1984?
It’s not just him the entire world seems like it is trying to copy this
@@bemotivated8443 Unfortunately but the funny thing is.It is used these days as a political blunt object to bash opposition.Instead of ppl heeding the warning George Orwell was trying to give the world when he wrote it.I fear we might very well be heading that way if western politics can't restore some degree of sanity in the coming years.Should current trends continue.
The irony is 1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual. Welcome to 1984
what actually happened in 1984 The Soviets invented tetris
A VERY SERIOUS GUY the most important invention of mankind
KAISER KIEFER beside sliced bread and chair
A VERY SERIOUS GUY indeed
kzhead.info/sun/bKqvZcetkIx8dmg/bejne.html
A VERY SERIOUS GUY --- Soviet also invented "The Witcher" series (if don't know The Witcher was created in Communist Poland).
I read this book when I was 16 (in 1972). I am now 66 and still have a copy on my bookshelf. I am sad to report that many; if not most of the things presented in the book have indeed come to pass. Perpetual war, the constant rewriting of history, censorship of the mind (cancel culture), surveillance and digital identity tracking. In reality the class structure never left us; it was simply dressed in the costume of credit bought affectations. We, in a society of overproduction, are now living in times of food shortages and 'supply line issues; all blamed (of course) on those evil buggers over somewhere else. But hey, life is full of bounty and we have never been freer. (whispering conspiratorially... At least that's what we are told')
Ah...I have to admit, that is Not right, from my perspective. I mean, I don't know where you live, but as I say, from my perspective we indeed have it far better than anywhere else in History. I can Go to the streets and say the government is Bad, No one will arrest me for this. In a few years, I can Go and Vote for a new government. There is No Style of Live that the government can dictate. I can be straight or queer, have children or Not, can Work in any Profession i want (as Long i have the skills)... We have a strong, democratic Opposition and Not Just "Yes Men". I don't have to starve or to freeze, i don't have to die from sickness or war. Yes, there are many Bad things, there is Not everything going the right way and it highly depends on where you live. But in all honesty, I could Not See myself Farther away from the world Orwell described.
@@Pomez9796 I never suggested that this was not arguably the best time to be alive in history. What I did suggest is that in my lifetime I have seen things change; and not for the better in many respects. Yes, we have much better medical care, anti-domestic violence and child protection laws than in previous times. Yes homosexuality is no longer a crime and you will not be murdered based on nothing but the colour of your skin (although in some parts of the USA this is still the case). Have a moment and consider the almost ubiquitous use of surveillance cameras, the idea that you can be refused entry to a business or even lose your job because you refused to undergo a medical procedure (vaccine mandates). Think of the erosion of civil liberties and the restriction placed on certain words and concepts - cancel culture. You say you can vote for who you like. Really? In my country - Australia, candidates are presented. I don't choose them. They are chosen by The Party. And what is the real difference between the political parties where you live? Do politicians really run the nation; or is real power wielded by business leaders (who are elected by nobody) In a world of overproduction we suffer food shortages or supply chair issues. If you cannot see these, and many other societal changes taking place as the slow decent into authoritarianism then they are very successful in playing the long game. peace.
@@stevious7278 Yeah, I get you with the survilance, even If it is pretty restricted here in Germany. But i admit, that is Something we Always have to Fight for as a society. And yeah, we also can Vote for Parties, that Announce their Leaders, but i don't See the Problem with it. If i wanted there would be nothing that could Stop me to build my own Party or to Join a Party and try to get Chancelor, Minister, Major, you call it. We don't have this excessive Funding-Campains Like the US have, i See the Problem there. I don't know how it is in Australia. The differences between the Parties are there. For example we have the Green Party that does Not want Nuclear Power and we have the Liberals that absolutely want to Invest in Nuclear Power. We have the Social Democrats that want to rise the Minimum Wage and we have the Liberals that mostly want it in the hands of Unions and Businesses. Yeah, there are differences and in a good democracy there will be compromises Made Out of those differences. At least in Germany the "Cancel Culture" is Not mandated by law. There are groups in society that try to cancel certain Things and there are other groups that are against it. Businesses and Media Sometimes follow the one or the other. But you never Just get one Side, Not even in the Mainstream. For example, if SPIEGEL is to liberal or progressive for you as a newspaper, you could Change to WELT. Totally different political standings, but still both Mainstream. I also get you with the food shortages and supply-problems. It is depressing that it Happens and that many Big Businesses are filling their pockets because of that. But I don't See, that Out government is trying to keep this shortages Up to controll us more. Actually they are trying quiet hard to Fight against it (at least from my perspective). I get what you mean with the vaccines, but for me it is honestly Something everyone has to evaluate for themselve. In my opinion it is important, that the society protects the weak, even If it lowers my Personal freedom. Outside of the medical sector there were No mandatory vaccinations here. And even there it was Not forced as far as i know. Greetings :)
@@Pomez9796 There are many subjects you touch on here; much too many to discuss on a platform such as this. We could sit and talk for hours and hours I am sure. You give me the impression of being a socially aware human being who has the greater good at the forefront of your mind. In the current time that is to be applauded. Stay true my friend on the other side of the planet who I have never met. :) Oh; and I hope the Northern winter is not too severe. (There is a lot of media coverage here about the fuel supply shortages needed to keep your homes warm) peace.
@@stevious7278 yes, i agree :) Thank you for your time and the interesting discussion! The Winter ist okay Here, a few cold weeks but it is getting warmer again. And we Heat with Wood, so it is Not to Bad for us now. I Wish you all the best and maybe we discuss Something again on this platform :D Bye!
Still an extremely relevant book today. Despite having read the book several times and made several videos on it as well, I still make new discoveries each time I pick the book up. Nice video.
People in the comments are trying to say that people selecting pronouns is equal to newspeak and that the trans community is basically ingsoc when people experience cancel culture due to their ignorance regarding it That's especially terrifying, because ingsoc would WANT to put down the trans community, stop people from being trans, limit vocabulary i.e no pronouns other than government approved ones Bigots these days actually think they're the ones being persecuted by society because they aren't allowed to attack trans people or control women's bodies (no abortions allowed, etc)
Arguing with an inner party member is like playing chess with a Cardassian pigeon : No matter how good you play, he will rewrite the rules, define black as white and white as black, and strap your face to a cage with hungry rats.
Please upload again. I found your channel when you were a few months into your drought and seeing your account made me remember how good your videos are. If you gave up on YT at least know that I love your videos
Eric Thorson SJWs have nothing to do with nihilism, and has maybe a tangential relation to 1984. I don't think you understand what nihilism means
Eric Thorson SJWs believe in equality (I assume for this argument). Nihilism is the concept that life, or the world, has no distinct meaning or purpose. Nihilists believe that there are no true morals. Therefore if anything SJWs go against nihilism. I guess if you mean "in common" you mean absolutely no connection/polar opposite (depending on your definition) then yes they're "in common"
Eric Thorson you are rambling so much here that you're muddying your own point. The definitions are different/contradictory. I'm not even touching what you said.
Eric Thorson Then that's because you haven't read the book, since what she said is EXACTLY how the Party is depicted in it
“Loyal and too stupid to question it” that resonates with me.
Conservative patriots in one sentence
@@fordgt5383 sjw they are all Loyal in thinking the patriarchy is evil and need to be taken down
Trump supporters
@@seanparker3386 you’re blind if you don’t see it on both sides friend.
@@C_odysseus actually biden supporters have been very critical of him recently. Trump could kill someone and his idiot supporters would still cheer for him
Thanks for the nice summation! :)
The scariest part is that even the highly educated inner party don't care about the oppression. They have heard all counter arguments, and yet still are able to hold their beliefs through double think.
@tek merion no.
@tek merion You are actually sending that link to others user comment (in this video tho) and also doing a self promotion too. Even that link brings to your video in your channel, I'll respect it.
@tek merino talking about spamming when you literally copy paste this under every comment
Because it hurts to do otherwise. They care only enough to ensure that all party members understand this. The Proles don't care at all.
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This book serves as both a warning and tutorial on how endless tyranny would be very possible
And so does "Brave New World"
Endless tyranny began with the dawn of civilisation
@@mr.gilbert2790 VErY sMarT COmmeNt aBoVe
Nonsense. This type of goverment Cound never exist, no one is going to bother taking over a society they then don't rule.
@James Sunderland Also a good book
One thing that our teacher noted about 1984 is that all of its surveillance is built with technology that exists in reality, and I will add that even the more sci-fi aspects like auto-generated entertainment for the proles are quickly becoming reality nowadays. The only thing that marks the distinction between a society becoming such a dystopia or not is pure political will.
I push my fingers into my eyes because this Orwell book is definitely a foretelling of the 21 century
it isssssss ITS TEH ONLY THING THAT SLWOLKY
“The ministry of peace who wage war. The ministry of love who kill all. The ministry of truth who spread nothing but lies. And the ministry of plenty, who keep the proles in poverty.”
this is dubbleplusungood bourgeois propaganda the thought police are on their way.
Sounds like Venezuela to me.
The ministry of love was to propagate love of Big Brother or die if you failed to love. the same with the other ministries.E.g What is truth, also there was no war. To a point the book itself was doublethink
Anti vax, flat earth logic
@@larenzdechavez442 Nice try, I'm a scientist. You're not very good at this are you
So Ingsoc is KZhead and the Proles are the Comments Section?
Dan Root ya.
Dan Root But just like in the book the proles are powerless
KZhead itself-even the Internet itself-is the sort of thing that might be created to service the Proles. The point is to keep them....satisfied and patriotic enough to keep paying their taxes and do more work. As the book(Not just '1984' but 'the book-Goldstein's book') puts it 'They are allowed intellectual freedom because they have no intellect.' Any truly dangerous thinkers are marked down and destroyed. Think of all the little arguments and comment arguments and cat videoes and memes and so on. Meanwhile the entire country is just crumbling and breaking down.
we have always been at war with reddit
2% are KZhead Heroes.
Something in the book which I find interesting is that the constant war is in fact a tactic used by the party, the never ending bombs being dropped helps in maintaining a sense of patriotism within the proles that limits dissent.
wait a minute. that feels familiar
But is there actually a war going on?
Good vid. I love the way you pronounce 'Colchester'!
"I win the debate because I made the language." -The Party, somewhere around 1984
Uh-oh looks like someone is commiting a tought crime
Why am I not surprised that this book was banned in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc?
Cuz it's pretty obvious
You've got to be really special to think that life in the USSR was like that.
Mikoyanshik What was it like?
Mikoyanshik You where alive back then?
Anything but being fed synthetic food and being constantly under the watch.
Just got a commercial basically telling you how to think about Finland and Sweden’s history as they are now our allies in NATO and even though they didn’t back us up in the world wars they’re still our friends against Russia and it made me decide to watch this again since this might as well be history class now
Damn, is there really an ad like that? I need to watch it myself
@@c-c-combobreak yep get ready to be shipped around the world to where the few thousands people with money need you to serve their wims never knowing what’s true anymore not even knowing what use to be true anymore after all best not to ask questions
and if they had joined two decades back when Putin was obliterating Chechnya then that would have sent a message. Now Sweden has manufactured a situation whereby Turkey feels compelled to veto their application for the honour of Islam, leaving Finland - which shares a loooong border with Russia - in the lurch. Neither will join.
Imagine if Owell still lives to this day, the TikTok era, what thought-provoking ideas would he come up with
@Bass Player bro comparing George Orwell to Joe Rogan
@Bass Player Orwell was a socialist
@@dazza2350 YES
I genuinely hope he’d have more to say than “phone bad”
@@dazza2350 The pain of being chronically online
A dystopia that feels more current is "Brave new world", by Aldous Huxley. These words by Neil Postman describe the differences and would make anyone realize why "Brave New World" is more relevant now: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that our fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us."
@Yoshi Does Stuff tl;dr: we are brainwashing ourselves using the internet. fuck :(
and yet there are some of us who see that we are screwed, and even see that we may just perceive we are screwed by our depression, and just start to welcome the extinction of man, even if we are wrong
@@user-pi4su6je8p I understand. But while society seems to be getting closer to A Brave New World, the threat of a 1984-type dystopia has decreased. In the year 1984, Communist dictatorships were still ruling a big part of the world and totalitarianism seemed like an imminent global threat. Today, totalitarianism is a shadow of what it was. Even big dictatorships like China have been getting a bit more free. Any dystopia will likely reflect parts of our current reality. Lies, oppression and war have always existed. But I wouldn't say they're becoming the biggest threat right now. On a side note, fake news aren't very 1984-ish. 1984 shows an all-powerful State in direct control of all the media, blatantly lying to the helpless citizen who doesn't have any other source of information. It's centralized lies that go from the top to the bottom. Fake news are something Orwell could've never dreamed of. When technology gave everyone the freedom to produce and consume information (something unthinkable in a totalitarian regime), the people became bombarded with tons of information of dubious quality, coming from different sources and presenting contradicting views. By sharing that information, it was the people who became the propagators of lies: a decentralized and horizontal scheme of disinformation. In a way, that sounds quite Brave New World-ish.
It’s like Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice
Bro you care too much about this. Just start a reddit forum and don’t type a year long comment ahahha
I need this as a comparison with the book and my discord server rules
True
lol
If a server have more than 5 rules it's trash and it will eventually become a wasteland.
"LiTtErAlLy 1984"
"you will not send anime feet pics in general".... Orwellian
I like that this book in a great many of countries was at some point banned in schools but later became compulsory reading material. Orwell to my mind is the greatest writer of all time.
I read the book just out of curiosity and I was just sickened by the culture that had formed. Even more so when I realized that the book is starting to come true.
I have one question, why doesnt 1984 have a good ending where they overthrow and defeat Big Brother and Ingsoc?
@@heroicpower3479 because why not
Comment section: 10% This is what our world is turning to. 90% Irregular boobs.
It's really closer to 5% Boobs, 5% Trump is 1984, 70% "The Left" is 1984 and 20% random comments.
NICTATOR You forgot the weak right wing cuckservatives being scared of some topless feminists.
ⵔⵓⴽⴰⵜⴽⴰⵜ Oh shut up. If the left & the right keep becoming whiney bitches, the world would be left with a bunch of Babies.
Or 1984 as it's really more of a warning against ideological zealotry and totally removing your enemies from the system.
Yeah, but the people saying that this is what the world is turning into, are saying so based the wrong things, on "alternative facts". So the comments section is about 99.999% retarded.
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Thank you, Napoleon.
Wrong book love
wrong book
@Pretzel Boi Same Author, same theme.
Animal Farm
What if Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia in the book aren’t real at all? What if Britain in the book is just an isolated, North Korean style totalitarian regime in a post nuclear apocalyptic world?
it definitely could work. almost all information about the world in the book is given by state propaganda and events, winston's own secret thoughts(which cluld very well be wrong), and Obrien(which also might be wrong). Hell, what if 1984-world is pretty much just IRL 1984 but UK gone isolationist and full-on North Korea hermit kingdom? Come to think of it... do we even know for sure Airstrip One is british isles? What if its just some island somewhere that was built with some copies of british landmark and the crazy dictator wanted to make it seem like it was the british iseles. And the actual UK is horrified and disgusted by this perversion of their home.
"A world where totalitarianism, individualism was dead, reality and history was just a manner of opinion." So... exactly what happened?
The most memorable thing from 1984 was how every small event in the ongoing war was described as producing "measurable progress" towards the successful conclusion of the war. The phrasing implies that there will be an end, but is meaningless as to how much, or in what way, the event under discussion contributed to the progress. Presumably this is a reflection of Orwell's experience in the last few years of WW2 with a long list of battles fought all across the world.
The USA just left Afghanistan after almost 20 years of “measurable progress”. Funny how that works 🍻
Like the USA "war" in Afghanistan-battles fought, no victories, just enormous expenditures benefitting the arms industry. Many generals careers made by 20 years in this endless war.
One of the most literally prescient aspects is the idea of 3 superpowers engaging in continuous proxy wars. That's what's been happening for the last 20 years at least. Certainly between the US and Russia, at least. Syria, particularly, was just that.
Sounds like Covid just get the jab and it will stop
Ukraine will be the same, endless wars
Government: *rewrites history in a snap* Someone: wait a min- Thought police: *TERMINATED*
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Yup! Me too.
Vaporized
@@mariamatedei SCP
Julieta Avilés you didn’t say it new speak [Terminated]
I need more alternative realities like this it is so interesting to see a alternative World.
Just finished reading it! It was really good and I loved how it conveyed its message
I’m sure that many of you have heard this popular paradox before: The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. Logically, this cannot be and it breaks one’s own brain trying to comprehend it. However there is a solution. Just use doublethink and both statements can be simultaneously true. Because with doublethink two contradictory statements can both be true.
Yes, exactly! There is no objective truth, that B.S. The truth is just what you think it is.
Jacques Voigt if Michael Robert were to die, then how could anyone prove that he was ever alive? Photos can be tampered with and memories are in one’s head. What if Michael Robert’s existence was all just a part of the Mandela Effect? Of course, we know in our world that memories are real. But George Orwell explores a very interesting philosophy in 1984.
This comment does not exist and it never happened. Citizen you have been mistaken
Thruth has no value only facts does, if you control what is facts there is no need for true/false, good/bad true/false is based on opinion facts is not, to quote barney stinson new is always better, do you really erase something? or do you just point out the facts! One of the fascinating things to think about is the major scale you have to manipulate rewrite or call it fact printing, to erase someone from the collective mind of everybody is no small feat, everything you ever touched needs to be rewritten and mind scrubbed, without the use of drugs or mind altering in the populace this would be near impossible, even dumb masses that can't read still have memories, to not make things spread you would have to rewrite people that remember almost simultanious. I would guess the book has alot more juice and meat on the subject then the movie, havent read the book its near impossible for me to sit still and focus for that long
PROOF INGSOC IS REAL AND RULES US ALL
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When Winston tries to find anyone that remembers that it wasn't always like this.
How can people not realize that this is exactly what [political party I don't agree with] is doing.
Well it won't work there are those that are educated that can push back, the flow of information is no one near as restricted in 1984. No one has unified into a superstate nor has any country has tried to destroy the individual. I do say that todays society has become more authoritarian than the last 100 years but its not at the level of complete information control. I don't believe that level of information control is even possible but it should open peoples eyes for seeing how easy political parties are controlling those that are devoted to them.
It literally is tho, I live in Canada and this book has got a metric f**k ton of similarities with what our government has done in the recent past or is trying to do currently
there's only one party with the illusion of two.
KKonaW the goddam democrats? Globalists222?!! Free masons11!!!1
@@Transit0422If it was true then wouldn't you have been arrested just by commenting this comment?
It is strange, but Oceania could be just the Airstrip One (UK) and rest of the world to be "normal". And everything else to be propaganda. The antagonist never really go outside the Airstrip One and never really saw the war or anything else outside the Airstrip One.
Yea you have a point just like in the movie “V”
That’s my theory too
Living in Britain feels like the rest of the world is a distant memory or a holiday destination.
That's always been my theory. That airstrip 1 is a north korea-like nation.
Yes. And Russia may not be the pure evil. Try to start a rational discussion. Good Luck. Was a good thing to have known you. At least until my brain gets washed.
Spoilers for the book. Do also keep in mind it’s been a while since I’ve read 1984. When I finished 1984, what I took away from it was that everything that we have been told over the course of the book, through Winston’s eyes, was all a lie. We are told basically everything that you said in the video, but the ending gives off a weird feeling of complete doubt about the situation of the world at large. Is there actually a war between the 3 powers? Do the other 3 powers even exist? Is everything just controlled by Oceania? Is Oceania actually an incredibly small refuge of human life amid a world long since destroyed by atomic war? We don’t know, because The Party has complete control over reality. I need to reread 1984.
The authors way of saying "see how easy it is to sow doubt and confusion" maybe?
Important thing is the theory that the bombs that fall sometimes are not sent by Eurasia or Eastasia but by Oceania itself to keep the illusion of being in war.
That’s what great about it. There are so many theories. It could be that the rest of the world is ‘normal’ and it’s just Britain that’s become like North Korea.
@@Krustycrabpizza35 that theory is just a cope for people that want a happier ending. The reality which is most likely is that the rest of the world has been wiped out
@@AverageAlien That's just a cope for people who need cynism as a shield. Based on the text, both theories are equally likely.
I sure am glad that pointless forever wars only exist in fiction.
Thanks for the tutorial!
"I'm not touching that subject" Good call, big -tech- brother is watching
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Awesome breakdown and take on 1984 man! Different from the other reviews I've seen. Thanks for making this.
@There is Nothing Bro.. that's a minor detail.. Overall it's an interesting take on 1984. Have a valid argument next time you want to criticize something. Or at least offer something constructive.
@@wisdom-for-life sad this is happening as we speak
@There is Nothing it’s his opinion
ik it's really detailed.
Bruh this isn’t a review or a take. This is an explanation of the society in the book.
Wrongthink is the most terrifying part of the book. The idea that a government can restrict your freedom so much that you can't even have your own thoughts is terrifying.
i personally love the ministry of love and one scene in particular- the part where O'Brien convinces Winston of the Party's supremacy. he says, i could truly float right off the floor if we both believed it. that really resonated with me.
7:12 I love the Futurama reference
The fact that the author Orwell died only half a year after the book got published sends me more chills than the book itself.
Orwell knew he was dying, so he rushed to finish the book and get it published. If he hadn't been in a hurry, he might have been able to create a better, subtler novel.
@@spiffygonzales5899 I mean you can literally read Orwell's Wikipedia article yourself
Yeah, of tuberculosis.
@@peterknutsen3070 If you read *"Keep the Aspidistra Flying"* you will see how much he copied from it Julia, Winston, and the fat neighbor. He fleshed out '84 as fast as possible to get to the main messages.
@@peterknutsen3070 The novel is a masterpiece.
Luckily we will never see this situation come to life. Right? Right? *RIGHT?!*
Well since we're having this thread then it's not that bad. Yet.
George Zhang *Looks at North Korea*
George Zhang Don't elect the left, they won't complete power like 1984!
*cough cough* North Korea *cough cough*
No. It could never really happen, and even if it did, there's no way it would last. It's even implied at the end of the book itself that this society does eventually collapse. 1984 is a great metaphor for the dangers of complacency, lack of control over information, and totalitarianism. It serves as a warning for what we should never let our world become. But is it realistic? No. Orwell never saw the rise of technology like the internet and that's not going away anytime soon. Information will always be out there, people will value their ability to acquire information, and if things get out of hand, corrupt leaders will have their people turn against them. Even if there is an attempt to control this information, it's going to fail. It's just too big to censor or control, plus it's filled with people who will do everything in their power. Add to that continent-spanning nations and you're neglecting to learn from the fall of the Roman Empire; a nation that is too large and too unprepared is destined to collapse. This is why neglecting the past will lead to the same mistakes. People look at North Korea as being a carbon copy of 1984, but it's really not. The people there don't always accept the reality depicted by the government as inherently true, otherwise there wouldn't be so many defectors. People there live under a shadow of fear of what will happen if they disagree, not Doublethink. Some may have been seduced by the ideas the state plants in their minds, but people there have always been trying to learn about the outside world. As technology advances, that's becoming easier and easier to do. With enough time, I can see a rebellion in their future. 1984 is a partial satire/partial exploration of the dangers of a society not thinking deeply. It wasn't to be taken as a literal example of what the future will bring. People can go on and on about the politicians they hate and the policies they disagree with, but I highly doubt this sort of future will ever come to pass.
#Salute thank you for your explaination. I just watched 1984 on Amazon Prime tonight 21 April 2024
This book, has truly hit me. Amazing.
Just finished this book and I feel empty inside. I thought there would be some climax but Winston is just broken. Sad as hell man. Also the part about him not being able to prove he is “real” is super dark.
Derealization?
Also the fact that when he and Julia part, the lyrics of the chestnut tree finally make sense, it's a punch in the stomach lol. I literally just finished reading it half an hour ago and I feel so hopeless lol
I don’t really know how he got that brainwashed. Broken certainly, it’s a miracle he can function. But why he thinks he loves Big Brother I don’t know. Maybe they put some chemicals in or some of the brainwashing was off screen
Well apparently, the appendix of the book refers to the regime in the past tense, so at least it seems Ingsoc gets overthrown eventually.