Forgot to mention Winston's and Julia's secret hideaway room, where they thought they were safe and were able to act like "normal" people. They did not realize this room was a set up until the telescreen behind a quaint painting spoke up just before the thought police burst into the room. Winston and Julia had been recorded the entire time they thought they had privacy. So sad.
Benson Saavedra : Yes! I had forgotten that part. I've met a few Charringtons during my lifetime. Seems like the career of being a politician attracts those types.
@@MB-rg2jm I have not gotten to see it yet but it would not surprise me.Alot of things have such symbology.The nation's capitol is filled with goddess statues.Their is strong evidence it was built using sacred geometry.
it's ironic, look at this comment section. Everybody is pretending to be smart, and different than those so-called sheep. 1000 useless comments, probably working on some useless job. Edit : 7000 useless comments
Corporations, schools, marketing, parents, social media; all telling you you need money, status and looks to be happy. Then, these became the standards we have started to judge ourselves and eachother to. Leading our lives accordingly.. making choices not based on what you _love_ , but on fear, on what you believe you _need_ to do in order to achieve happiness and avoid what you've now learned to fear. Deciding on a career that gives you enough money to do what you _believe_ will make your happy .. Rather than dare to just be _you_ and do whatever you genuinely feel like doing. We think we're free, but the reality is that a few universally adopted, empty beliefs, are controlling our every thought, emotion, and action.
This video is 10 years old and was suggested to me today. The odd thing is, I’m currently reading 1984. Big Brother is most certainly watching. Thought police are on the way. Phones are the telescreen.
Vijayant Raj how would an algorithm know about a physical book I’m reading though.? I’m not trying to go down the rabbit hole here, just food for thought.
@ISCARI0T Ted Kaczynski was a lunatic and terrorist. You compare a masterpiece of literature with the ramblings of one butthurt semi-mad incel who wanted to blow up the whole world.
@ISCARI0T The movement is not important, you know what is an incel, someone who is in a situation of involuntary celibacy. His doings were motivated by things that he knew about and was conscious about those, and by unconscious things, like his deep frustrations and the fact that he was mentally sick. I don't know if Orwell was racist or not, and I don't care, I was reading his books, and I saw no racist remarks, at least in those books I have read. Your opinion is that he was a piece of trash? Well, that is just your opinion, the enormous majority of people think of him as a very important writer, and the enormous majority of people think of Ted K. as a terrible piece of trash, lunatic and terrorist. And you like such people like Ted K. so I guess we have nothing to talk about.
@ISCARI0T Wow... He was in involuntary celibate because he lived in that stinkin' "cabin"? No, maybe you should read a little about his life, sure he was intelligent, he became a professor, but he was socially awkward and I doubt that he ever had a sexual encounter with a woman, or with a human being for that matter. The fact that he was intelligent doesn't mean that he wasn't a sociopath, and psychopathy and sociopathy are not mental illnesses, if that was the case every psychopath or sociopath would have used that as a defense in court. No, he was born with such a predisposition and his life pushed him, especially after those "experiments" which scared him and probably were the last drop in the bucket. You like his diatribe, and you also are against technology and have the same ideas and opinions as him? What can I say, there are weird people, some think that Mein Kampf which Hitler wrote is a masterpiece, and there are toxfem women who like the SCUM manifesto which Valerie Solanas wrote... Ted wrote a lot of garbage, diatribe, and rumblings of a looney, and you think that is better, you compare Unabomber with Orwell... Get lost, you must be mad or a fol or both, and I don't want to have another word with you. Another message and I will block you. Nutjob...
OK, but "The Prince" by Machiavelli was THAT just a warning too?? It doesn't matter--if one sees this book as "a handbook", perhaps that should be a warning?
@wolemai here is great example. I wonder the last time student protesters rounded up some spectator readers and sent them the Ministry of Love. there isn't one- and saying that there is is an insult to all the millions killed or imprisoned by the nazis, the soviets, the Chinese and Franco's Spain.
@wolemai yeah and they keep saying we have to use the pronoun 'they' for singular people! what kind of world has this become? wow i am just shocked and saddened by this horrible decline in our government since biden was "elected". I cant even celebrate fathers day with my white, conservative, loving, racist dad anymore because the transgenders got to it! what a sad world we live in.
this is basically north korea except instead of torture its just death. and globally theres a softer form of this with its foot in the door and ready to go further.
When you're a kid stuff like monsters ghosts and bugs would scare you. When you're an Adult. The evil inside peoples hearts. The concept of a dystopian world such as this. Essentially not being a human being anymore. That is more ftightening than any monster ghost or creepy crawly any day
How about the concept of , Super Humans ( genetically engineered/ or even cloned) , living in the same community/Society. Beings from the Beyond, with super Intelligence ( A.I) being / taking charge of your day today affairs( politics, economics, civics etc).
This video is absolute gold. I love the way Goerge Orwell tries to warn people about totalitarianism. This book is absolutely amazing and make us realize how easy society can change, and how easy they can put pressure on you to make absolutely everything they want you to do. An amazing cautionnary tale, WW2 was probably the worst experience people had to go through with propaganda, brainwashing, etc. and George Orwell materialized it perfectly in hiqs book.
The cautionary tale would never be read, nor would it be understood, by extremist Magats in the US. Today, a sketch of their idol defendant trump, sitting in court beside a Jesus figure, sums it up. People allow themselves to be brainwashed.
"The good message is that the government has to try really hard to truly get into Winston's head" wow, such an encouraging message. This book is so fucking scary because it's so true
I read it recently and genuinely felt cold icy fingers of doom especially the making you believe what you know not to be real and adopt the language which smacks of all this pronoun gibberish
Reading this book in 2024 has the be the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced reading a book. Years later and The reality of our world is so accurately depicted in Orwell’s storytelling.
In the end they got him to voluntarily love Big Brother (or at least to think he did). Such a chilling tale, I was hoping for mass rebellion but I got solitary defeat.
@@ReadingComprehension8X I guess? Before he knew that 2 + 2 = 4 is wrong but he had go about his life saying it is Now he can let go of all the tension of "what if I am actually wrong?" Or any of that other stuff and go " 2 = 4 is my fucking jam" And also he's not being hunter by angsoc or whatever it was called anymore
@@ReadingComprehension8X Oh and also he feels as though he will eventually have his thought crime thoughts return and he'll probably be shot then but for now he's actually happy for once
No joke, recently there was a debate on twitter (because of course it's twitter) about 2 + 2 = 5. Pretty sure someone started it as a troll but it showed some people actually took it seriously and believed 2+2=5. It's scary to see this stuff become reality for us.
@@clumsyturtle8544 This statement is one that a person who thinks their smart would make About how "WoAH ThErE PeOPle ToDAy ArE ThAt DumB bUT NoTt mE,,, mE sMarT"
It's honestly terrifying how much of this is actually happening in differnet ways, from targeted ads of things you were searching or even just chatting about, to totalitarian governments leading their countries completely free to do whatever they like. A novel truly ahead of it's time
Or seeing Ads about stuff you only THOUGHT about..never said out loud...how coincidently often does that happen ? Makes me sorta wonder what was in those manditory Vax's?
In the book he actually died as well. He pleads for execution, and in the trip to the room where they will put the long awaited bullet into his brain, he looks into a poster of big brother and loved him
OMFGLOLROTFLWTF "but it's definitely a book everyone should read." I found it funny because its not necessarily true (for me). It's like saying everyone should watch paint dry.
Arno Victor Dorian haha you find it boring? Are you reading it for school? It's a book that hones in on population control, propoganda, etc. that i feel like is very important because it's happening in this very world that we live in. Maybe not in as extreme measures but there is a possibility of getting there and nowadays people don't ever stop and really think about things. This is a very thought-provoking book.
Studied1984 in high school in the 80's. It left me with a eerie impression and sick to my gut. To this day never forgotten and now its 2020 and I have that same feeling.
queenofcups I don’t know why but I feel like I don’t have a future anymore. Every time I think about 2021 I instantly start to feel paranoid and anxious.
@@andria8279 same and like it's so weird because i recently fond out that my little cousin is gonna be graduating in 2028. 2028??? like what i feel like the world will literally be over by then. im only 15 but the 2010s were so carefree and as soon as 2020 came it feels different and weird
@@bellaklein8692 I know exactly how you feel, I'm so fucking scared of what's gonna happen to the world in 10 years, just look around you, do some research (not on google) about covid, the vaccines and all the shit that has been indoctrinated to you since you were born, question the media and everything you see, ask yourself why things are the way they are, and then, you'll truly be scared of what's to come
@@andria8279 You shouldn't think so for ahead, put plans in place but live in the now. Someone said to me don't look to far into the future it will give you anxiety nor too far into the past you'll become melancholy, enjoy today.
It depends on the country Western countries have it much better then some other shady parts of the world I could be imprisoned, tortured and possibly executed over a silly opinion in my country which is supposedly the most _democratic_ in the region and its a norm for us here, we all know it and consider it normal because we were born into it and don't know better
Which makes no sense if you have two of one thing and two of another thing all together you have 4 things Where are they getting the extra number from?
Just take the vaccine so you wont get sick or infect others.... I mean... take the vaccine so you dont infect others... no... i mean... take the vaccine to get less sick.... no... i mean... take the vaccine to maybe get less sick but the booster shot will make you less sick...
If you aren't a sheep, then you will either use your superior intelligence to join the ruling class by selling your soul, or become self sufficient off grid and devote yourself to enlightenment - which is the real meaning of life anyways. Let's be honest, the dumb sheep don't deserve or even want freedom.
@@MG-hg1sq It's a prophetic and dark tale of a future society in the grip of a totalitarian regime that demands complete capitulation to it's dogma. It revolves around the experience of a man who begins to question the validity of that society, a doomed romance and the inevitable, profoundly unnerving conclusion. Required reading for American high school students and a really great read on every level. Highly recommended!
The sad thing, with Winston being broken, is that he really doesn't know better. O'Brien was able to break him because Winston trusted him and believed O'Brien had his best interests in mind. Because of O'Brien, everything he taught Winston became absolute truth to him.
@Devin Blackburn Yeah like when he got Americans killed because he wanted to keep up the status quo and avoid the thing that all prime minister's and presidents will do anything to avoid... being the one to handle a very very bad situation And he he did plenty of good work! Like that time he got hundreds deported, that time he removed tons of rights that lgbt people had Oh and let's not forget that time on January 6-
It's been a while since I read this book, but it's still an imperishable memory. At the beginning, I remember that all those grey landscapes and harsh laws made me uncomfortable ( to my mind, this must be the first step of a distopia in the sense that the main purpose of this type of literature is to enable you to put your habits and your society in question ). Then I was very surprised and impressed by the personnal developement of the main character, mainly because I didn't find him neither interresting nor brave at first. However, the author finally succeed in changing my mind and after some chapters I was just like "go boy, run for your freedom, be a rebel" :'). It also teached me that in a totalitarian regime, the little things of everyday (such as kiss the woman that you loved or read something) could became the most courageous. Obviously, the end just ruined my mood for two decades. I am still under the impression that one gives me a glimmer of hope to just extinguished it under my eyes one second later. However, isn't the reason that makes 1984 one of the best book ever written ?
Not Carlie Animal Farm was an amazing book. I first picked it in the seventh grade because we did mini research papers on 4 books for the year. We had a list of 24 to choose from and many of us thought animal farm would be an easy paper to write because of its title. Another girl and I chose Animal Farm and when we figured out we both picked it, we worked our paper together. After our presentations, the next book choices were given. Everyone chose Animal Farm. Lol
I just finished reading the book, and MAAAANNNNNN what an ending!!!! I never read a book before specially a book with more than 100 pages. 1984 was definitely worth the time and pages it took me to read. The last page, the ending truly made me feel emotional.
Me too. Please, will you share it on your social media? It is now so important with the social distancing & lock down policies put upon us and maybe the mandatory vaccines etc. The video is only 6.37 minutes, so people might be open to watch it. Thanks!
Watching this video made me want to read 1984. I started reading it once but I wasn’t captivated by the beginning. This video gives a good understanding of the book and makes you want to read it to understand it more and on your own level.
My favourite book of all time and considering how phenomenally intelligent and astute Orwell had to be to foresee the events which I don't think anybody can deny are unfolding before our very eyes, the genius of this work will be appreciated more as time goes by.
I think Orwell may not have been that futuristic on his own, as he worked, or had connections with the powers that could/would facilitate these events to unfold.
No matter what ever happens again, these last two years opened my eyes to how flawed a species we are, there are many great humans but sadly we are so flawed we are destined for doom
Whether you are religious or not, if you ever read genesis in the bible you would see it outline all the faults of humanity that we have repeated over and over again. Greed, murder, incest, betrayal, adultery, rape, people’s corruption …. Most would tell you not to read the bible because it’s of ancient ideas and people. But we have not evolved one damn bit and are just as they were only with digital watches and airplanes but just as flawed as ever
Yes we humans are destined for destruction. There is only one that can save us and it is JESUS!❤✝️💕 Come to him because he loves you and wants you in paradise with him.
Really nice produced video, from the esthetic to the content. It makes you want to read the book. The way it is written seems so powerful, deep. We can feel the loneliness with quotes just as this one "“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable” - George Orwell.
Not necessarily a bad thing because that means people have been searching/sharing it more, and not at all strange because when something is "trending" it gets moved up in feed priority.
Yes, combined with Brave New World ! In addition, Uk Tv has shown Contagion, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and The Road all in the last three weeks. All part of the mockery of the sheeple.............
my favorite part of 1984, that I rely the most on, is the description of the imperial system, and its obsession for survival. The exact description of the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry... And also the exact description of the elite of the anglo saxon countries.
Naw, it's the globalists, diversity, inclusion and climate change big corporations. They are the ones in charge. We have to believe what they tell us or else- War is peace, a man is a woman and a woman is a man, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. And there is such a thing as "a black white supremacist". 2 + 2 = 5..
Describes Amerikkka perfectly. It’s a country that relies on war and exploitation 😂. It’s a cancer. Can’t wait for China kick their teeth in. But they have to wait because it’s like fighting a guy with a bomb jacket : if they start losing they might go all out nuclear out of spite so they can’t let Amerikkka collapse too fast or it would get desperate.
Can you imagine if Winston LET the rats eat his face off rather than have it happen to his girlfriend? It would be the most profound, tragic and sad heroic act achieved in fiction. NO one in his right mind would be able to hold it together on reading it.
It reminded me I really liked this book because I red it when I was young, and I didn't understood the message at the time, neither the end of the story. It was blurry for me for a lot of years, but know that I am older I understand it and it confirms the bad mood I had at the end.
It's remarkable, that the book fully outlines the process narcissists use on their victims. And indeed, you realize that the world we live in elects narcissists as leaders. We are brainwashed by the system itself. The system IS Big Brother. That's why no one can point fingers truly. We are eachother's Big Brother, encouraging loyalty to politeness, and censorship and agreement with "Me". Love, is fear.
Yeah I thought the same, at work we also have Chinese workers at the moment (im from Germany) they, told me one woman became a child about 3 months before and must go working her in Germany, cause otherwise she get fired and won’t get any better payed job in her life, cause the governments keeps track of them. I was shocked and couldn’t believe it first but i promise you it’s real.
@@rc.... as i hongkonger i can confirm that Hong Kong is slowly becoming the same as China. 7 opposition leaders are arrested today and this is basically what we see on the news everyday here now in Hong Kong. Most of those who actively participated in last year’s protests are either arrested or too afraid to speak up anymore. AND last week the government just announced a ‘reform’ of high school education that basically turns the education system into a brainwashing machine. Our city is as good as dead.
It's actually communism. The far left supports conspiracies (by denying they exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), plutocracy (by denying conspiracies exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), and totalitarianism (thru political correctness, which is cultural communism, and the anti-gun lobby, which supports the release of dangerous offenders and the dictatorial powers of judges in sentencing) and Covid-19 measures.
George Orwell believed in democracy, current "progressives" do NOT. Blue States are literally cancelling elections and pushing for bogus postal voting and "ballot harvesting".
@@piecekeeper5317 Orwell's political beliefs were guided by his genuine love for the working class. He worked in London the north of England and Paris doing menial jobs and he was blown away by the natural good naturedness and camaraderie of the people he worked with. He also wrote there is more intelligence and wisdom to found in a mining village pub than can be found in parliament and at the top table of any Oxbridge university. Of course with these views he would now be deemed a Nazi by the Guardian and Buzzfeed.
+Jim Le No note really. I'm gonna quote a comment I said before but it kind answers the point. "I see where you're coming from, but stop bitching. If you don't like captilism form a communist government or vote Corbyn's Labour. The message you sent here, on TH-cam, on your computer, in your house proves you are helping them. I hate when leftly anarchists bring up 1984 saying it's what they're doing now. Have you guys ever read the book. In their people are people are being fucking vapourised and tortured for having sex! I know they read your text messages, I know they're corrupt but just fucking accept that. It's for your own good!"
OK everyone, they are not so opposite because the two books say quite the same: an individual doesn't matter, you shouldn't be alone or love anyone, or care for anything but the community, you should never have time to do anything unrelated to it, and family shouldn't exist. And you should be oblivious to everything that's wrong. And you see, miniluv simply conditions people a little later than the Hatchery Centre - even using the same methods. And these books are allegories and hyperboles, they are not to be taken literally but they do accurately represent many aspects of our world. The reason why we may not notice is the fact that we here are the Proles and yes, the Epsilons. People with important functions withing the government (Alphas/Betas, the Party) have disappeared and they still do.
@@James-xb1zm Yes it can, I would argue that the "democracies" of today use more levels of abstraction and have used epi-national structured institutions, I.e. IMF, in order to control and subvert and confuse analysis and any form of accountability from these totalitarian institutions.
I had to work on this video in progress and I confess that I would love to read this book now. The characters look interesting, the author's point of view could also be compared to our current vision... good things to compel me to read it.
I just read this the first time. It was pretty horrible how they tortured Winston in the end, and how he got some kind of stockholm syndrome for O'brien, always thinking him as an intellectual man and feeling comfort in his arms even when 5 minutes ago he was torturing him. In the end when they met with Julia was also very sad, two people utterly broken and unable to think independently anymore and living without proper feelings.
I read this book years ago and seems more pertinent now than when Orwell wrote it then. To me it’s very prophetic about our current world with authoritarian governments and such leaders, even more so since Stalin and Hitler, etc!
@@markiec8914 I think that, "if" the world governments are steering towards NWO dystopian regimes, it will be more like Brave New World rather than 1984.
@@vintheguy well, i may be wrong. I haven't read neither of the books. And of course, the world will never be exactly like BNW or 1984. But I do believe that a more possible system, looking at the world today, would be a sort of simulated happiness like BNW, rather than obvious malevolence like 1984.
1984 was one of my first dystopian reading, and now the genre is basically my favorite. Even though Orwell is missused in many arguments, I never stopped diffending it and even learned to use it to prove many other points. Today, I like to bring 1984 in my arguments when i talk about language, neologism and freedom of thought, how we aren't able to talk even though we have the words, and everything. Highly recommand !
I'm afraid the correct text of the novel has him writing the complete formula 2 + 2 = 5. By a typo, the last number dropped out in a number of printings, giving the impression that Winston maybe was not completely brainwashed after all and let the "answer" remain undefined instead of writing 5. Alas, the complete text indicates otherwise.
Well, if it's supposedly happening right now, then why don't you people try and stop it while you have the chance? Like, contribute to society for once by freeing it from the "SJW shackles" or whatever you call them.
It's been awhile since i read this book. I don't remember the Government ever being called Communist or any specific form of government. I always thought it was a warning of what could happen in any country
Animal Farm was a satire on the Soviet Union. The pigs were Napoleon- Stalin, Squeeler- Molotov and Snowball- Trotsky. Big Brother had the mustache like Stalin. The lack of production of basic necessities like razor blades definitely resembled the Soviet Union. Big Brothers reigning political party was named INGSOC. INGSOC was Orwell's way of mocking the English Socialists of the time.
@@SandfordSmytheHe called BIg Brother's party Ingsoc to mock the British Socialists of his day. Especially the so called upper class socialists who detested everything about England yet lauded many other cultures around the world.
@@tesla-v2681 And so, there is always someone who has to personalized a discussion. I appreciated your first two sentences. Orwell was noted for his allegiance to English culture. There is a picture of him making proper tea in a trench in Spain
To Kill a Mockingbird is actually just an extremely lucky book to be published when it was and benefited tremendously from being one of the first mass produced paper back books. Its popularity has more to do with its convenience than it does its literature.
I never comment on videos but today my English teacher asked us to post a comment under this video so, here I am. I have already worked on 1984 before so, what I can say about it is that I like the fact that we can see how futuristic it is. In the novel, people are being watched every step of the way ; nowadays we are being watched out no matter what we do with the internet - you have to accept cookies so the websites can have access to your informations and so you can have access to the website then. The fact that people aren't allowed to have any form of relationship, in 1984, is quite sad as human beings need to socialize, to love and to be loved. “Man is by nature a social animal" (to quote Aristotle) after all, isn't he? But here, this fact is taken against human beings - you aren't allowed to socialize in order to do the work and so you cannot rebel and plan a revolution if you're on your own. I'm gonna end this comment there - the animation is well done and it is very well summarized! Thank you for this video.
@@wazzup233 yeah there a refugee of North Korea 🇰🇵 and she mentioned that her family keep a radio (requirement that every family has) that no one can turn off and plays propaganda, every morning.
I'm working on this in class. I didn't read the book but the video gives me a boost to read it. I hope the atmosphere in the book looks like in the video. Indeed I like when it's eerie. The subjectives adventure of a man in a totalitarian regime could be very interesting.
O.M.G. i haven't read this book, but this creepily sounds exactly like North Korea today. Everywhere in the streets are huge statures of the leaders kim il sung and kim jong il, propaganda saying that america is bad and only north korea is good. In every house, there are portraits of the leaders, and all mail, phone calls and houses are censored and have surveillance which is pretty much being watched. If you say anything bad about the government or do something bad like watching american movies, not only will you get sent to prison camps but your WHOLE family including children goes there too. Then 3 generations of your family are trapped in the prison camps( and the camps are MUCH worse than Hitler's concentration camps) because of one person doing a minor crime. Finally, the Ministry of Truth and North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel are really similar. Both are tall and triangularish and they both contain over 3000 rooms. WTF. And how creepy is it that this was published in 1949 and the korean war was in 1950 WTFFF. Did Kim Il Sung take inspiration from this and was like I want my country to be exactly like this when this was supposed to be a warning? does anyone agree with me or am i getting paranoid?
+MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.
+MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.
+MsDreamGirl098 I heard a story about some Westerners that were visiting North Korea and gave this book as a gift to one of the guides. She returned it soon after, saying it made her feel uncomfortable. Yeah, North Korea bears most resemblance to Orwell's dystopia in the modern world. The West lives in societies that are mode like Huxley's dystopia.
Like any other person, I know - including me 😝. I’ve managed to half asses most of the book reports in high school and manage to get higher score than those who gave their 100%.
In high school I read the spark notes instead of reading the assigned book from time to time 😎 Now over a decade later I’m too lazy to read 1984, so I searched for a video, and boom, spark notes got my back again 👊
4/9/2020 you hit the nail on the head . We are being told to stand-on X's the playground equipment has orange mesh looking stuff wrapped around it you can't swing or slide you can't shake hands no more smiling faces😷😷😷 this is to stop the conversation this is a take down
Actually, he already thought Britain was under the early stages of a totalitarian regime. He was one of the few that looked sadly at the celebrations of the ending of ww2...not because the fascists were defeated but because he knew the British weren't really all that free.
I remember back to last year when my wife and I visited China for a 14 day land tour. When we were being driven from the Shanghai airport to our hotel, which took almost an hour, it was the most depressing sight ever. As far as the eye could see, in every direction, were tall, dark, foreboding apartment complexes. I thought to myself and didn't dare say it aloud, "this is what Orwell must have envisioned when he wrote 1984. Cameras, facial and fingerprint recognition everywhere. Tightly regimented. At the Shanghai airport one young lady attempted to take a picture of the inside of the airport with her cell phone. She was quickly and loudly shouted at by a security guard who made sure that she deleted the picture.
This is why I get annoyed when people casually mention that "america is basically 1984 today", or the odd fetishization of wanting to compare the US to this idea due to "cancel culture" or something pretty benign like social changes in culture. This starts with losing faith in the press and sowing doubt in the institutions we've erected, not some Twitter bans or lies made to look alarming.
There is no positive message. While the government DOES have to go to lengths to break Winston, most people they don't have to do anything to. Winston is very clearly defined as a special case, because most people are raised from birth to love Big Brother. It's also made pretty clear that while Winston is a special case, he's like the only mosquito at a Party (pun intended). Taking care of him is less effort than swatting a fly.
I was really surprised that there was no positive result or a resolution of any kind. It's really one of the saddest and most frightening books I've read.
O'Brien when he walked into Winston's cel was basically like "Yeah actually it was just a prank. You just got pranked and now you're going to Room 101."
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Forgot to mention Winston's and Julia's secret hideaway room, where they thought they were safe and were able to act like "normal" people. They did not realize this room was a set up until the telescreen behind a quaint painting spoke up just before the thought police burst into the room. Winston and Julia had been recorded the entire time they thought they had privacy. So sad.
Wasn't Mr.Charrington O'Brien himself?
Benson Saavedra : Yes! I had forgotten that part. I've met a few Charringtons during my lifetime. Seems like the career of being a politician attracts those types.
Benson I thought I was the only one who had that idea! Lol
Benson Saavedra it wasnt obrien just a member of the thought police
SilentOneLove : Oh darn. You got me thinking. Now I'll have to reread the book.
It wasn't just a novel.
It was a "Warning !!!"
Be warned
Yes and an indoctrination Orwell was from a secret society and had knowledge of the plan
All dystopian novels are.Unfortunately it would appear only a few people are listening.😐
@@stevengreen9536 Ready Player One was a major book and movie of recent times. That was Masonic and Satanic throughout.
@@MB-rg2jm I have not gotten to see it yet but it would not surprise me.Alot of things have such symbology.The nation's capitol is filled with goddess statues.Their is strong evidence it was built using sacred geometry.
"Don't let it happen, it depends on you.'
- Orwell
Sadly, it appears the world is allowing it to happen.
Δυστυχώς....
As long as the sheeple believe they were George Orwell's intended audience, the bad guys will continue to win.
Never give in
it's ironic, look at this comment section. Everybody is pretending to be smart, and different than those so-called sheep. 1000 useless comments, probably working on some useless job.
Edit : 7000 useless comments
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
For ever and ever...
Foot fetish mofos: Just how I like it
@@sl1nkz818except it's a thick army boots 😂
That boot is NATO
@@GimOAThere is a fetish for any kind of shoes, though the shoes is more of a degrading kink.
The worst is: people are doing it to themselves.
Exactly.
Slaves.
Corporations, schools, marketing, parents, social media; all telling you you need money, status and looks to be happy.
Then, these became the standards we have started to judge ourselves and eachother to.
Leading our lives accordingly.. making choices not based on what you _love_ , but on fear, on what you believe you _need_ to do in order to achieve happiness and avoid what you've now learned to fear.
Deciding on a career that gives you enough money to do what you _believe_ will make your happy .. Rather than dare to just be _you_ and do whatever you genuinely feel like doing.
We think we're free, but the reality is that a few universally adopted, empty beliefs, are controlling our every thought, emotion, and action.
They have a choice? No.
@@AnnaLVajda Yes. Why do you think they have no choice?
This video is 10 years old and was suggested to me today. The odd thing is, I’m currently reading 1984. Big Brother is most certainly watching. Thought police are on the way. Phones are the telescreen.
MonaLisa Raye welcome to the real world
It was a suggested video for me today 🙄🙄😳😳
algorithms are thought police.
that's how this video popped for you.
This video pops up on notification when I ordered 1984 on eBay , wtf
Vijayant Raj how would an algorithm know about a physical book I’m reading though.? I’m not trying to go down the rabbit hole here, just food for thought.
This was supposed to be a warning! Not a Manual!
#dontjudge
Javon Pearson hehe
"How to serve Man"
"How to serve Man"
Ryan G. herher
One of the most Important books on the planet everyone should read it.
It should be mandatory reading in high schools when adolescents are forming a social/ political ideology.
bloody well said our kid
@ISCARI0T Ted Kaczynski was a lunatic and terrorist. You compare a masterpiece of literature with the ramblings of one butthurt semi-mad incel who wanted to blow up the whole world.
@ISCARI0T The movement is not important, you know what is an incel, someone who is in a situation of involuntary celibacy. His doings were motivated by things that he knew about and was conscious about those, and by unconscious things, like his deep frustrations and the fact that he was mentally sick.
I don't know if Orwell was racist or not, and I don't care, I was reading his books, and I saw no racist remarks, at least in those books I have read. Your opinion is that he was a piece of trash? Well, that is just your opinion, the enormous majority of people think of him as a very important writer, and the enormous majority of people think of Ted K. as a terrible piece of trash, lunatic and terrorist. And you like such people like Ted K. so I guess we have nothing to talk about.
@ISCARI0T Wow... He was in involuntary celibate because he lived in that stinkin' "cabin"? No, maybe you should read a little about his life, sure he was intelligent, he became a professor, but he was socially awkward and I doubt that he ever had a sexual encounter with a woman, or with a human being for that matter. The fact that he was intelligent doesn't mean that he wasn't a sociopath, and psychopathy and sociopathy are not mental illnesses, if that was the case every psychopath or sociopath would have used that as a defense in court. No, he was born with such a predisposition and his life pushed him, especially after those "experiments" which scared him and probably were the last drop in the bucket.
You like his diatribe, and you also are against technology and have the same ideas and opinions as him? What can I say, there are weird people, some think that Mein Kampf which Hitler wrote is a masterpiece, and there are toxfem women who like the SCUM manifesto which Valerie Solanas wrote... Ted wrote a lot of garbage, diatribe, and rumblings of a looney, and you think that is better, you compare Unabomber with Orwell... Get lost, you must be mad or a fol or both, and I don't want to have another word with you. Another message and I will block you. Nutjob...
There are a lot of people today, who don't know that this was a warning, not a handbook.
OK, but "The Prince" by Machiavelli was THAT just a warning too??
It doesn't matter--if one sees this book as "a handbook", perhaps that should be a warning?
@wolemai here is great example. I wonder the last time student protesters rounded up some spectator readers and sent them the Ministry of Love. there isn't one- and saying that there is is an insult to all the millions killed or imprisoned by the nazis, the soviets, the Chinese and Franco's Spain.
@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 the language games and censorship are bad enough
@wolemai yeah and they keep saying we have to use the pronoun 'they' for singular people! what kind of world has this become? wow i am just shocked and saddened by this horrible decline in our government since biden was "elected". I cant even celebrate fathers day with my white, conservative, loving, racist dad anymore because the transgenders got to it! what a sad world we live in.
this is basically north korea except instead of torture its just death. and globally theres a softer form of this with its foot in the door and ready to go further.
These pictures are far too colorful. When I read the book I imagined cities being a massive swamp of greys blacks and other dark colors.
I haven't even read the book and that's what I thought too.
????????????
D. Jordan USA Me, too! I just reread it and I imagined every scene is shades of gray except when they were in the field hideout spot.
I agree!
@@dk6173 you gotta read it! Its a great book, the ending sends chills down your spine.
When you're a kid stuff like monsters ghosts and bugs would scare you. When you're an Adult. The evil inside peoples hearts. The concept of a dystopian world such as this. Essentially not being a human being anymore. That is more ftightening than any monster ghost or creepy crawly any day
How about the concept of , Super Humans ( genetically engineered/ or even cloned) , living in the same community/Society. Beings from the Beyond, with super Intelligence ( A.I) being / taking charge of your day today affairs( politics, economics, civics etc).
Yeah if makes you love bugs.
Raymond N Kamugisha “Super Humans”? If you find them, please show me. They would stand out like a sore thumb among the masses of rubes.
Reality is scarier than Fiction.
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This video is absolute gold. I love the way Goerge Orwell tries to warn people about totalitarianism. This book is absolutely amazing and make us realize how easy society can change, and how easy they can put pressure on you to make absolutely everything they want you to do. An amazing cautionnary tale, WW2 was probably the worst experience people had to go through with propaganda, brainwashing, etc. and George Orwell materialized it perfectly in hiqs book.
The cautionary tale would never be read, nor would it be understood, by extremist Magats in the US.
Today, a sketch of their idol defendant trump, sitting in court beside a Jesus figure, sums it up.
People allow themselves to be brainwashed.
At the same time decreasing the readers' IQ
‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’
World Economic Forum
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@@flennboyd6413 end freedom of every kind.
@@flennboyd6413 wake up bro!
@@flennboyd6413 their agenda is 1984.
More accurately, Brave new world by Aldous Huxley.
"The good message is that the government has to try really hard to truly get into Winston's head" wow, such an encouraging message. This book is so fucking scary because it's so true
The bad message is that they succeded and just moves on afterwards.
It is simply horrifying and it is coming true.
I read it recently and genuinely felt cold icy fingers of doom especially the making you believe what you know not to be real and adopt the language which smacks of all this pronoun gibberish
Really my friend, great ✊
Did you know they have tuning forks and they control our thoughts are blood everything you're already doing it look it up
Yep .
I read this book, it's scary and sad.
Hoak most distopias are...
And reality is actually no further from that fiction.
Julia Hoover wait what.... EXPLAIN TO ME i don’t understand
@@g_g6729 um mind explaining?
Indeed! It honestly terrified me!
Reading this book in 2024 has the be the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced reading a book. Years later and The reality of our world is so accurately depicted in Orwell’s storytelling.
In the end they got him to voluntarily love Big Brother (or at least to think he did). Such a chilling tale, I was hoping for mass rebellion but I got solitary defeat.
Yes..
He also kind of likes it because he feels like he's not going insane anymore
@@vintheguy he is though , just content inside of the insanity
@@ReadingComprehension8X
I guess?
Before he knew that 2 + 2 = 4 is wrong but he had go about his life saying it is
Now he can let go of all the tension of "what if I am actually wrong?" Or any of that other stuff and go " 2 = 4 is my fucking jam"
And also he's not being hunter by angsoc or whatever it was called anymore
@@ReadingComprehension8X
Oh and also he feels as though he will eventually have his thought crime thoughts return and he'll probably be shot then but for now he's actually happy for once
No joke, recently there was a debate on twitter (because of course it's twitter) about 2 + 2 = 5. Pretty sure someone started it as a troll but it showed some people actually took it seriously and believed 2+2=5.
It's scary to see this stuff become reality for us.
Difference between people believing that because of government propaganda and brain washing
And people just being stupid
You are an idiot
And arent an intellectual
@@vintheguy ok.
@@vintheguy Never claimed to be one but fuck you I guess?
@@clumsyturtle8544
This statement is one that a person who thinks their smart would make
About how "WoAH ThErE PeOPle ToDAy ArE ThAt DumB bUT NoTt mE,,, mE sMarT"
Big Brother kinda looks like my dad.
lol
Same tho
your dad is watching you.
"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"
+William Hurst "WAR IS PEACE"
It's honestly terrifying how much of this is actually happening in differnet ways, from targeted ads of things you were searching or even just chatting about, to totalitarian governments leading their countries completely free to do whatever they like. A novel truly ahead of it's time
Or seeing Ads about stuff you only THOUGHT about..never said out loud...how coincidently often does that happen ? Makes me sorta wonder what was in those manditory Vax's?
This was one of the most depressing novels I have ever read, it broke my heart when they broke Winston😢
I feel the same
@Guerilla PSYOPS - Who would title their novel with that? Lol
Yep it was heartbreaking to see him in the bar/cafe
In the book he actually died as well.
He pleads for execution, and in the trip to the room where they will put the long awaited bullet into his brain, he looks into a poster of big brother and loved him
@@bigwheelfromspidamahn1037 Is the book really worth reading ?
1984, published 1948, a 36yr difference. 1984 to 2020’: a 36yr difference.
That is just creepy
And........numerological it’s 4 (22 = 2+2) 1+9+4+8 or 1+9+8+4 or 2+0+2+0....
and the noticeable reversal
@I_G6 Strange coincidence though is it not?
@@familiedejonge6813
How is it it is numerologically 4?? Thanks.
Didn't get to read it in school but it's definitely a book everyone should read.
I bet it's probably a good book (I'm only 40 pages in), but right now I'm laughing at your statement.
whats so funny
OMFGLOLROTFLWTF "but it's definitely a book everyone should read."
I found it funny because its not necessarily true (for me). It's like saying everyone should watch paint dry.
Arno Victor Dorian haha you find it boring? Are you reading it for school?
It's a book that hones in on population control, propoganda, etc. that i feel like is very important because it's happening in this very world that we live in. Maybe not in as extreme measures but there is a possibility of getting there and nowadays people don't ever stop and really think about things. This is a very thought-provoking book.
OMFGLOLROTFLWTF Yeah.
Studied1984 in high school in the 80's. It left me with a eerie impression and sick to my gut.
To this day never forgotten and now its 2020 and I have that same feeling.
queenofcups I don’t know why but I feel like I don’t have a future anymore. Every time I think about 2021 I instantly start to feel paranoid and anxious.
@@andria8279 same and like it's so weird because i recently fond out that my little cousin is gonna be graduating in 2028. 2028??? like what i feel like the world will literally be over by then. im only 15 but the 2010s were so carefree and as soon as 2020 came it feels different and weird
@@bellaklein8692 I know exactly how you feel, I'm so fucking scared of what's gonna happen to the world in 10 years, just look around you, do some research (not on google) about covid, the vaccines and all the shit that has been indoctrinated to you since you were born, question the media and everything you see, ask yourself why things are the way they are, and then, you'll truly be scared of what's to come
@@sickbro5509🙏
@@andria8279 You shouldn't think so for ahead, put plans in place but live in the now. Someone said to me don't look to far into the future it will give you anxiety nor too far into the past you'll become melancholy, enjoy today.
No one has control over us. We give it to them.
Well said
Very true. However, once brainwashing and mind control have crept their way in, even the strong stop fighting back. That is the entire agenda.
It depends on the country
Western countries have it much better then some other shady parts of the world
I could be imprisoned, tortured and possibly executed over a silly opinion in my country which is supposedly the most _democratic_ in the region and its a norm for us here, we all know it and consider it normal because we were born into it and don't know better
@Mr Sloth cause people are too stupid to think for themselves thats why
@@maddealer8680 there taught not to think for themselves. Starts in kindergarten
It's funny that they're actually starting to push the 2 + 2 = 5 thing
Which makes no sense if you have two of one thing and two of another thing all together you have 4 things
Where are they getting the extra number from?
@@dustdusty3947 i don't think it's meant literally....
it might be meant CRT-y tho...
totalitarianism is when people are being stupid on the internet
@@dustdusty3947 You sound insane and so in desperate need of therapy.
Just take the vaccine so you wont get sick or infect others.... I mean... take the vaccine so you dont infect others... no... i mean... take the vaccine to get less sick.... no... i mean... take the vaccine to maybe get less sick but the booster shot will make you less sick...
My daughter's senior English class brought me here. Currently reading along with her.
As a Hongkonger, I am genuinely scared by what will happen to us if our revolution fails in the end
,won't fail
YOU HAVE TO YOUR LIFE
FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
ARE YOU WILLING TO DO THAT?
@Paul zozak china has conc vamos.usa took inmigrantes in.former times.i sharply advise to line up for Freedom.
If you aren't a sheep, then you will either use your superior intelligence to join the ruling class by selling your soul, or become self sufficient off grid and devote yourself to enlightenment - which is the real meaning of life anyways. Let's be honest, the dumb sheep don't deserve or even want freedom.
Thank you to all of you, Thomas
I come back to this book every few years, and it blows my mind anew every time. Absolute masterpiece.
Why ? Wht this book is about ?
@@MG-hg1sq It's a prophetic and dark tale of a future society in the grip of a totalitarian regime that demands complete capitulation to it's dogma. It revolves around the experience of a man who begins to question the validity of that society, a doomed romance and the inevitable, profoundly unnerving conclusion. Required reading for American high school students and a really great read on every level. Highly recommended!
@@brianmcmanus4286 Do you see paraleles to todays world ? Do you think, that a one world goverment is going to come ?
@@MG-hg1sq Yeah. God M G, let's hope not.
@@MG-hg1sq
For lazy readers, here's the full audiobook..... th-cam.com/video/CBPNrVQwqeo/w-d-xo.html
“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He rather said if we weren’t silent there wouldn’t be arrests.
Ain’t a good man to quote
@@ivankolobov9502 Иван, Вы наверное Широкорада перечитались. Или радио звезда слушаете ежедневно...прочли бы книгу сначала, а потом судили о человеке.
The sad thing, with Winston being broken, is that he really doesn't know better. O'Brien was able to break him because Winston trusted him and believed O'Brien had his best interests in mind. Because of O'Brien, everything he taught Winston became absolute truth to him.
The book is now re-titled “How to Run a Government, for Dummies.”
You mean criminals, dont date insult us dummies. Lol
Should read: How to run a government OF Dummies
Helen...was it signed Joe Biden😜
@@vicgogan3337
As if trump was any better
@Devin Blackburn
Yeah like when he got Americans killed because he wanted to keep up the status quo and avoid the thing that all prime minister's and presidents will do anything to avoid... being the one to handle a very very bad situation
And he he did plenty of good work! Like that time he got hundreds deported, that time he removed tons of rights that lgbt people had
Oh and let's not forget that time on January 6-
While I read the book I always imagined everything being gray (buildings houses etc)
when you have to write an essay by tomorrow
Hahahahah +1
you plagiar... I mean research in the internet.
facts need to finish in 3 days
Esperanza Ochoa this is a good book, also if this is all your gonna for it, than you are supremely lazy.
u'll be deported anyways so it doesnt matter
It's been a while since I read this book, but it's still an imperishable memory. At the beginning, I remember that all those grey landscapes and harsh laws made me uncomfortable ( to my mind, this must be the first step of a distopia in the sense that the main purpose of this type of literature is to enable you to put your habits and your society in question ). Then I was very surprised and impressed by the personnal developement of the main character, mainly because I didn't find him neither interresting nor brave at first. However, the author finally succeed in changing my mind and after some chapters I was just like "go boy, run for your freedom, be a rebel" :'). It also teached me that in a totalitarian regime, the little things of everyday (such as kiss the woman that you loved or read something) could became the most courageous. Obviously, the end just ruined my mood for two decades. I am still under the impression that one gives me a glimmer of hope to just extinguished it under my eyes one second later. However, isn't the reason that makes 1984 one of the best book ever written ?
Great breakdown and animations. Thanks!
Agreed... 👍
Animations? I didn’t see any animations.
I saw some really good artwork though.
They are illustrations not animations
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2:53 a store is named "Old Major" after the character in Animal Farm
Not Carlie ha just noticed that too
Wow.
You would be great at CinemaSins.
that book is better than 1984
Not Carlie Animal Farm was an amazing book. I first picked it in the seventh grade because we did mini research papers on 4 books for the year. We had a list of 24 to choose from and many of us thought animal farm would be an easy paper to write because of its title. Another girl and I chose Animal Farm and when we figured out we both picked it, we worked our paper together. After our presentations, the next book choices were given. Everyone chose Animal Farm. Lol
Le'Vin Moser I’m in 9th we just started it seems good so far
I just finished reading the book, and MAAAANNNNNN what an ending!!!! I never read a book before specially a book with more than 100 pages. 1984 was definitely worth the time and pages it took me to read. The last page, the ending truly made me feel emotional.
This video really helpes understand the meaning of 1984. I really like having animation, it allows us to be fully concentrated on the explications.
Me too!
Oddly enough in london, we have the most cameras in the world. And we alos have such pyramid roofs on buildings..
Airstrip One is doubleplusgood.
This is happening in both Europe and the United States right now.
Pyramids are important to Free Masons.
@@HC-cb4yp no the aren't.
Congrats you are being watched..
Why does Big Brother look like Pablo Escober...anyways, good book
Oshaanri its Stalin
Stalin was the inspiration for the Big Brother face. Mustoched men are typical of totalitarian leaders.
his face is crazy symmetrical lol
Dan Sevrin
Corbyn...
*Who's watching this during Corona?*
I am 😊
Yaacov I am too
I drive around without a facemask to see if a pig stops me to try to impose his tyrannical idiologies into play. So far nothing yet.
Im drinking one now
Me too. Please, will you share it on your social media? It is now so important with the social distancing & lock down policies put upon us and maybe the mandatory vaccines etc. The video is only 6.37 minutes, so people might be open to watch it. Thanks!
Watching this video made me want to read 1984. I started reading it once but I wasn’t captivated by the beginning. This video gives a good understanding of the book and makes you want to read it to understand it more and on your own level.
My favourite book of all time and considering how phenomenally intelligent and astute Orwell had to be to foresee the events which I don't think anybody can deny are unfolding before our very eyes, the genius of this work will be appreciated more as time goes by.
As time goes by, the book very well may be "taken off the shelves".
@@rickblessing2447 Along with many other subversive works not consistent with the globalist, neo-liberal, Marxist agenda. My copies are going nowhere!
I think Orwell may not have been that futuristic on his own, as he worked, or had connections with the powers that could/would facilitate these events to unfold.
No matter what ever happens again, these last two years opened my eyes to how flawed a species we are, there are many great humans but sadly we are so flawed we are destined for doom
Whether you are religious or not, if you ever read genesis in the bible you would see it outline all the faults of humanity that we have repeated over and over again. Greed, murder, incest, betrayal, adultery, rape, people’s corruption …. Most would tell you not to read the bible because it’s of ancient ideas and people. But we have not evolved one damn bit and are just as they were only with digital watches and airplanes but just as flawed as ever
This is EXACTLY what they want you to think. MAN UP
Yes we humans are destined for destruction. There is only one that can save us and it is JESUS!❤✝️💕 Come to him because he loves you and wants you in paradise with him.
if "literally 1984!!!!" was a ytb comment
Accepting Jesus is the only cure
As a fellow youtuber who creates animated book reviews, I just wanted to say that this video is great! Well done.
Do you have one of 1984?
I'm afraid not. I specialise in non-fiction.
+ObtainEudaimonia but this is non fiction, today's society is going to make it the earliest warning sign of what was to come.
ChaoticMartian 1984 isn't nonfiction.
Eudaimonia nobody cares you are a fellow youtuber
Really nice produced video, from the esthetic to the content. It makes you want to read the book. The way it is written seems so powerful, deep. We can feel the loneliness with quotes just as this one "“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable” - George Orwell.
Back in my day, you actually had to read the SparkNotes.
LMAO they'll beam this shit into our kid's heads by the time were our parent's age.
In my day you actually had to read the book.
Thanks grandpa!😄
@@6guns431 not your grandpa and not even a boomer. Just believe that reading still has a place in the world.
Ok👍i was jj
Funny how TH-cam recommends this 10+ year old video during the Corona virus pandemic. 04/06/2020
Good observation!!! Naturally as usual reality is always in plain sight. If your eyes are open wide to see.
We're being programmed.
It is on my suggested list too
Not necessarily a bad thing because that means people have been searching/sharing it more, and not at all strange because when something is "trending" it gets moved up in feed priority.
Yes, combined with Brave New World ! In addition, Uk Tv has shown Contagion, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and The Road all in the last three weeks. All part of the mockery of the sheeple.............
I wonder if Orwell knew that his masterpiece was going to become a "How to Book"............
He said he could see it unfolding. He'd probably read Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Totalitarianism always goes the same way.
Plus you've had it planned since at least 1969 there were books on how they would do it from that period.
For the Democrat party
@@deplorable2767 ooooooh, sick burn brah,!!! You come up with that on your own ?!?
They write the scripts and use puppets to introduce them. They have been very telling of the future.
my favorite part of 1984, that I rely the most on, is the description of the imperial system, and its obsession for survival. The exact description of the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry... And also the exact description of the elite of the anglo saxon countries.
Obviously you're a mind controlled liberal,
Naw, it's the globalists, diversity, inclusion and climate change big corporations. They are the ones in charge. We have to believe what they tell us or else- War is peace, a man is a woman and a woman is a man, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. And there is such a thing as "a black white supremacist". 2 + 2 = 5..
Describes Amerikkka perfectly. It’s a country that relies on war and exploitation 😂. It’s a cancer.
Can’t wait for China kick their teeth in. But they have to wait because it’s like fighting a guy with a bomb jacket : if they start losing they might go all out nuclear out of spite so they can’t let Amerikkka collapse too fast or it would get desperate.
We're in it.
Yes😬
Moron
...no we’re not. Try reading the book and doing some background research on Orwell before you say some garbage like this lmfao
Explain
@@alyssa8525
OMG IT'S 1984 BECAUSE I CAN'T SAY SLURS
One of my favorite books to read growing up.
Without truly knowing oneself the outside will always rule.
INDEED. So many people who are asleep today are slaves to social media, to their egos and MATERIAL THINGS.
Can you imagine if Winston LET the rats eat his face off rather than have it happen to his girlfriend? It would be the most profound, tragic and sad heroic act achieved in fiction. NO one in his right mind would be able to hold it together on reading it.
He could've won against the Party.
It would completely defeat the point of the book though.
@@MsSimranP would it tho?
@@ReadingComprehension8X yes it would
@@MsSimranP what do you see is “the point”
It reminded me I really liked this book because I red it when I was young, and I didn't understood the message at the time, neither the end of the story. It was blurry for me for a lot of years, but know that I am older I understand it and it confirms the bad mood I had at the end.
It is just a matter of time before this video is censored.
No, it is not
why? im genuinely asking I don't know
@@sbeity its a joke, contrasting between the dystopia in 1984 and our own world
Its been up for 11 years and nothing like this is really happening. Get ur head out the dirt there are no communist politicians in America
@@binroussi
They would immediately get impeached and arrested if they existed
The most "communist" or "socialist" we're ever getting is bernie
This is the first time I watch Orwell's 1984, i gotta say this gave me goosebumps because many things he talked about are happening today o.0
Yes man it’s getting crazy out there
@@xheatproofspy7011 really
@Dove Camp Amen 🙌
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is quickly becoming our reality.
It already is.
@@whitexchina 1/20/21
IT IS
People has chosen it by using smart phones and credit cards.
how the fuck is this becoming our reality. 1984 is a shitty prediction that Orwell made when nazis and communists were in power. you're wrong.
It's remarkable, that the book fully outlines the process narcissists use on their victims. And indeed, you realize that the world we live in elects narcissists as leaders. We are brainwashed by the system itself. The system IS Big Brother. That's why no one can point fingers truly. We are eachother's Big Brother, encouraging loyalty to politeness, and censorship and agreement with "Me". Love, is fear.
Reminds me of the “re-education“ camps of the uyghurs in china
Yeah I thought the same, at work we also have Chinese workers at the moment (im from Germany) they, told me one woman became a child about 3 months before and must go working her in Germany, cause otherwise she get fired and won’t get any better payed job in her life, cause the governments keeps track of them. I was shocked and couldn’t believe it first but i promise you it’s real.
this is happening the whole of china not just western china
@@rc.... as i hongkonger i can confirm that Hong Kong is slowly becoming the same as China. 7 opposition leaders are arrested today and this is basically what we see on the news everyday here now in Hong Kong. Most of those who actively participated in last year’s protests are either arrested or too afraid to speak up anymore. AND last week the government just announced a ‘reform’ of high school education that basically turns the education system into a brainwashing machine. Our city is as good as dead.
@@justinwu7495 I’m sorry about what’s happening there. What I’m afraid about nowadays is what will happen to Taiwan as well.
There were re-education camps even in free-liberal-socialist Yugoslavia.
"Fascism is coming in the United States most probably, but it will not come under that name" - Norman Thomas
It's actually communism. The far left supports conspiracies (by denying they exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), plutocracy (by denying conspiracies exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), and totalitarianism (thru political correctness, which is cultural communism, and the anti-gun lobby, which supports the release of dangerous offenders and the dictatorial powers of judges in sentencing) and Covid-19 measures.
@@CaptZdq1 George Orwell was a radical socialist.
Your close-to-fascist views on pretty much every issue would make him your enemy..
George Orwell believed in democracy, current "progressives" do NOT. Blue States are literally cancelling elections and pushing for bogus postal voting and "ballot harvesting".
@@CaptZdq1 what
@@piecekeeper5317 Orwell's political beliefs were guided by his genuine love for the working class. He worked in London the north of England and Paris doing menial jobs and he was blown away by the natural good naturedness and camaraderie of the people he worked with. He also wrote there is more intelligence and wisdom to found in a mining village pub than can be found in parliament and at the top table of any Oxbridge university. Of course with these views he would now be deemed a Nazi by the Guardian and Buzzfeed.
I have a feeling that our world today is becoming exactly what is like in "1984" and "Brave New World".
+Jim Le How can it be like both of them? They are pretty opposite forms of governments.
+Jim Le No note really. I'm gonna quote a comment I said before but it kind answers the point.
"I see where you're coming from, but stop bitching. If you don't like captilism form a communist government or vote Corbyn's Labour. The message you sent here, on TH-cam, on your computer, in your house proves you are helping them. I hate when leftly anarchists bring up 1984 saying it's what they're doing now. Have you guys ever read the book. In their people are people are being fucking vapourised and tortured for having sex! I know they read your text messages, I know they're corrupt but just fucking accept that. It's for your own good!"
OK everyone, they are not so opposite because the two books say quite the same: an individual doesn't matter, you shouldn't be alone or love anyone, or care for anything but the community, you should never have time to do anything unrelated to it, and family shouldn't exist. And you should be oblivious to everything that's wrong. And you see, miniluv simply conditions people a little later than the Hatchery Centre - even using the same methods.
And these books are allegories and hyperboles, they are not to be taken literally but they do accurately represent many aspects of our world. The reason why we may not notice is the fact that we here are the Proles and yes, the Epsilons. People with important functions withing the government (Alphas/Betas, the Party) have disappeared and they still do.
@@James-xb1zm Yes it can, I would argue that the "democracies" of today use more levels of abstraction and have used epi-national structured institutions, I.e. IMF, in order to control and subvert and confuse analysis and any form of accountability from these totalitarian institutions.
Jim Weiß oh stfu tin head
I had to work on this video in progress and I confess that I would love to read this book now. The characters look interesting, the author's point of view could also be compared to our current vision... good things to compel me to read it.
"You don't have friends, you can't date or have sex with someone you like" - yep, that's all too familiar.
you can literally do all of those things very easily
@@blackironwalterkus3851 fr haha
@@blackironwalterkus3851 very easily mhmhmmmm ? I dont think it goes for everyone buddy
@@yakupkozoglu7208 if you can’t do those things now then you definitely couldn’t do them before.
Cope more
The book is based on George Orwell's time at summer camp.
Wut
+Brutalpony Kitteneater I'm certain that was a joke.
Bencows HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Your comment is based on someone having to wipe their ass in the woods, and lacking toilet paper or suitable leaves, utilizes a dead porcupine.
Or the time Bernie Sanders became president.
I just read this the first time. It was pretty horrible how they tortured Winston in the end, and how he got some kind of stockholm syndrome for O'brien, always thinking him as an intellectual man and feeling comfort in his arms even when 5 minutes ago he was torturing him.
In the end when they met with Julia was also very sad, two people utterly broken and unable to think independently anymore and living without proper feelings.
It's terrifying to think that such a work, although exceptional in itself, could become our reality in the near future ...
It already is our reality
Just re-read it. The first time was in high school... when it was fiction.
James McDowell oh it wasn’t fiction! It was a glimpse into our present day!!
@@TheConshuscriterion
No it's still mostly fiction in the west
Exactly, everyone is saying we're living this, but no one can explain in what way lol.
@Fact Checkers Sure. If you believe every shitty rumour you find on the internet, then you do. Oh and dont forget that the Earth is flat
Love the fiction comment. Lol
I read this book years ago and seems more pertinent now than when Orwell wrote it then. To me it’s very prophetic about our current world with authoritarian governments and such leaders, even more so since Stalin and Hitler, etc!
I lived in Iraq during Saddam regimen and this exactly how he ran the country
I've got bad news for you buddy....The US/Canada and Europe are steering towards this NWO totalitarianism.
@@markiec8914 : Hey ahmad1221... Markie C is right.
@@markiec8914 I think that, "if" the world governments are steering towards NWO dystopian regimes, it will be more like Brave New World rather than 1984.
@@Chad-Rainis
That isn't really possible
If you read a brave new world you'll see that
@@vintheguy well, i may be wrong. I haven't read neither of the books. And of course, the world will never be exactly like BNW or 1984. But I do believe that a more possible system, looking at the world today, would be a sort of simulated happiness like BNW, rather than obvious malevolence like 1984.
1984 was one of my first dystopian reading, and now the genre is basically my favorite. Even though Orwell is missused in many arguments, I never stopped diffending it and even learned to use it to prove many other points. Today, I like to bring 1984 in my arguments when i talk about language, neologism and freedom of thought, how we aren't able to talk even though we have the words, and everything. Highly recommand !
Dude it’s way more deep. The last scene after all that tournament he cried tears of joy for Big Brother sincerely. It was so freaking dark.
Yet Winston paused when he writes 2+2 on a dusty cafe table to think about host answer. He was still human
i dont remember this part. if true this could be the happy ending i'd hoped for, instead of a resounding kick to the balls
He ends up writing that it equals 5.....but the pause tells me that he knows it really doesn't
I'm afraid the correct text of the novel has him writing the complete formula 2 + 2 = 5. By a typo, the last number dropped out in a number of printings, giving the impression that Winston maybe was not completely brainwashed after all and let the "answer" remain undefined instead of writing 5. Alas, the complete text indicates otherwise.
Starting to look like a reflection of modern day more & more.
How so?
@@thomasmannia LSS: this is why we hate big government, & lobby against it.
@@thomasmannia sorry if it doesn't answer your question directly.
Well, if it's supposedly happening right now, then why don't you people try and stop it while you have the chance? Like, contribute to society for once by freeing it from the "SJW shackles" or whatever you call them.
@@sprodersprack4257 dude, it's just an observation. Calm down.
I love the illustrations. Great overview of this masterpiece of literature. 👍
It's been awhile since i read this book. I don't remember the Government ever being called Communist or any specific form of government. I always thought it was a warning of what could happen in any country
You know, many of Orwell's books have been used as propaganda, for example: Animal Farm.
Animal Farm was a satire on the Soviet Union. The pigs were Napoleon- Stalin, Squeeler- Molotov and Snowball- Trotsky. Big Brother had the mustache like Stalin. The lack of production of basic necessities like razor blades definitely resembled the Soviet Union. Big Brothers reigning political party was named INGSOC. INGSOC was Orwell's way of mocking the English Socialists of the time.
@@tesla-v2681 You understand that Orwell was a socialist himself?
@@SandfordSmytheHe called BIg Brother's party Ingsoc to mock the British Socialists of his day. Especially the so called upper class socialists who detested everything about England yet lauded many other cultures around the world.
@@tesla-v2681 And so, there is always someone who has to personalized a discussion. I appreciated your first two sentences. Orwell was noted for his allegiance to English culture. There is a picture of him making proper tea in a trench in Spain
Who else was just interested in the book and doesn’t have an essay to write lol
That's the first audiobook I've listened, and the best one so far.
Wish this was the book we'd done for literature. To Kill A Mockingbird is still pretty good but this just seems a much more powerful work of writing
To kill a mockingbird is a steaming pile of shit rolled up and set aflame
To Kill a Mockingbird is actually just an extremely lucky book to be published when it was and benefited tremendously from being one of the first mass produced paper back books. Its popularity has more to do with its convenience than it does its literature.
I never comment on videos but today my English teacher asked us to post a comment under this video so, here I am. I have already worked on 1984 before so, what I can say about it is that I like the fact that we can see how futuristic it is. In the novel, people are being watched every step of the way ; nowadays we are being watched out no matter what we do with the internet - you have to accept cookies so the websites can have access to your informations and so you can have access to the website then.
The fact that people aren't allowed to have any form of relationship, in 1984, is quite sad as human beings need to socialize, to love and to be loved. “Man is by nature a social animal" (to quote Aristotle) after all, isn't he? But here, this fact is taken against human beings - you aren't allowed to socialize in order to do the work and so you cannot rebel and plan a revolution if you're on your own.
I'm gonna end this comment there - the animation is well done and it is very well summarized! Thank you for this video.
This not a movie, it's a documentary.
Catweasle The Movie - COVID-1984
A documentary of which place at which time exactly. Cause currently, we pretty much have free speech in great parts of the developed world.
@chronic 321 we have but not many are listening !
Plot twist: it’s actually a book.
@@maxwellshaver1836 LOL
What a marvelous tragedy! This is my first time ever learning the novel. Thank you for this.
This was in everyone's recommended us TH-cam trying to tell us something
TH-cam is part of this. We are Winston. They’re slowly telling us this is happening.
Wuuuuu. Exhales hard and long
-it was fun while it lasted, folks
Nah youtube is part of big brother
@@gottgainz6477 Big Brother wants us to fight him.
@@rivertwygzbed543 TH-cam is building the rebellion through recommendations, and they don't even know it.
Psychologically, it's so incredible to think you can limit people thought just by limiting the words they know !
Add "Idiocracy" to 1984 and you get a very clear picture of today.
Plus hypersexualisation
Not really
@@leuchtrakete7093 that's from brave new world and trust me that's comming true as well
Not looking so crazy now is it
In other words, modern day China, literally. Even the rocket part is true in China.
More like North Korea just look at this th-cam.com/video/i82PBpw2Vg0/w-d-xo.html
Or maybe in North Korea.
@@wazzup233 yeah there a refugee of North Korea 🇰🇵 and she mentioned that her family keep a radio (requirement that every family has) that no one can turn off and plays propaganda, every morning.
Don't say it, the bugmen will come and try to disctract you away from their beloved [REDACTED]
I have been to china twice.. I haven't felt i have been watched.. Also the people seemed soo warm and friendly..
I'm working on this in class. I didn't read the book but the video gives me a boost to read it. I hope the atmosphere in the book looks like in the video. Indeed I like when it's eerie. The subjectives adventure of a man in a totalitarian regime could be very interesting.
The irony is that London is actually heading into a 1984 state right now!
O.M.G. i haven't read this book, but this creepily sounds exactly like North Korea today. Everywhere in the streets are huge statures of the leaders kim il sung and kim jong il, propaganda saying that america is bad and only north korea is good. In every house, there are portraits of the leaders, and all mail, phone calls and houses are censored and have surveillance which is pretty much being watched. If you say anything bad about the government or do something bad like watching american movies, not only will you get sent to prison camps but your WHOLE family including children goes there too. Then 3 generations of your family are trapped in the prison camps( and the camps are MUCH worse than Hitler's concentration camps) because of one person doing a minor crime. Finally, the Ministry of Truth and North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel are really similar. Both are tall and triangularish and they both contain over 3000 rooms. WTF. And how creepy is it that this was published in 1949 and the korean war was in 1950 WTFFF. Did Kim Il Sung take inspiration from this and was like I want my country to be exactly like this when this was supposed to be a warning? does anyone agree with me or am i getting paranoid?
+MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.
+MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.
I was thinking the same thing. North Korea is 1984.
+MsDreamGirl098 Wow U is like zo smart.
+MsDreamGirl098 I heard a story about some Westerners that were visiting North Korea and gave this book as a gift to one of the guides. She returned it soon after, saying it made her feel uncomfortable. Yeah, North Korea bears most resemblance to Orwell's dystopia in the modern world. The West lives in societies that are mode like Huxley's dystopia.
Teacher : 'Read 1984 by May 3rd'
May 2, 10:30 pm
Me : Aw sh**..haven't started better find the movie and pray for multiple choice 🙏🏻
Jon Rogers the book isn't even a reflection of it. It's like someone filled the book in shit and tried to press it onto a vhs cassette.
The book report isn't important.
This book IS.
greymajickjedi the book really makes you think honestly
How did the test go?
Like any other person, I know - including me 😝. I’ve managed to half asses most of the book reports in high school and manage to get higher score than those who gave their 100%.
In high school I read the spark notes instead of reading the assigned book from time to time 😎 Now over a decade later I’m too lazy to read 1984, so I searched for a video, and boom, spark notes got my back again 👊
We laugh at the idea of the “thought police”. The way things are going it will be real soon.
I don't.
4/9/2020 you hit the nail on the head . We are being told to stand-on X's the playground equipment has orange mesh looking stuff wrapped around it you can't swing or slide you can't shake hands no more smiling faces😷😷😷 this is to stop the conversation this is a take down
Trust me no one is laughing
Facebook and youtube are already censoring content they feel goes against their guidelines.
@@22copes the control of thought those two platforms have go far beyond censoring content.
Actually, he already thought Britain was under the early stages of a totalitarian regime. He was one of the few that looked sadly at the celebrations of the ending of ww2...not because the fascists were defeated but because he knew the British weren't really all that free.
I remember back to last year when my wife and I visited China for a 14 day land tour. When we were being driven from the Shanghai airport to our hotel, which took almost an hour, it was the most depressing sight ever. As far as the eye could see, in every direction, were tall, dark, foreboding apartment complexes. I thought to myself and didn't dare say it aloud, "this is what Orwell must have envisioned when he wrote 1984. Cameras, facial and fingerprint recognition everywhere. Tightly regimented.
At the Shanghai airport one young lady attempted to take a picture of the inside of the airport with her cell phone. She was quickly and loudly shouted at by a security guard who made sure that she deleted the picture.
Thanks for sharing
This is what some would like to see as a global model.
Sounds like Cairo.
This is why I get annoyed when people casually mention that "america is basically 1984 today", or the odd fetishization of wanting to compare the US to this idea due to "cancel culture" or something pretty benign like social changes in culture.
This starts with losing faith in the press and sowing doubt in the institutions we've erected, not some Twitter bans or lies made to look alarming.
I read the book in 1984. It's closer to reality then what you think.
When at school in 1975 I was happy It was only ... a book, which I hated. Today it's a reality.....which I can't believe we live in... Scary.
I don't think it s a reality
This book should be re-released and renamed to USA 2021.
I correct you: World 2021
Not just USA, in Brazil ( My Country ) the same thing is happening, it is all over the World.
@@pedroangelo3567 Sorry to hear that brother. Keep on fighting!
@@laaaliiiluuu Sadly yes... but we can't give up. We need to stand against these draconic left wing governments trying remove our freedoms.
@@rodzandz HA! for sure bruther lets go git em! yeehaw we're gonna git them liberals! shoot em with our guns! hunt em down like deer!
There is no positive message. While the government DOES have to go to lengths to break Winston, most people they don't have to do anything to. Winston is very clearly defined as a special case, because most people are raised from birth to love Big Brother. It's also made pretty clear that while Winston is a special case, he's like the only mosquito at a Party (pun intended). Taking care of him is less effort than swatting a fly.
I was really surprised that there was no positive result or a resolution of any kind. It's really one of the saddest and most frightening books I've read.
Darn I never knew *sparknotes had a Channel this whole time! The website helped me survive English my senior year. I was so burned out.
O'Brien when he walked into Winston's cel was basically like "Yeah actually it was just a prank. You just got pranked and now you're going to Room 101."