1984 vs Brave New World - How Freedom Dies
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Excellent video, as usual! George Orwell expected that what we FEAR will ruin us. Aldous Huxley expected that what we DESIRE will ruin us. And BOTH are correct. Because: Those who are fearful fear TRUTH and therefore don't DESIRE Truth, but instead desire that "truth" be what they desire "truth" to be! And, spoiler alert: THIS is the original and continuing error; the "original sin" that caused the fall of GOD's children into limitation - the greatest and best-kept secret in this entire world (of limitation). FEAR is the enemy and the EGO is its ambassador; the thing that the Bible calls "the devil" and "satan": "the god of this world."
Do you sir follow a certain creator by the name of John Ward?
@@kyolusrex8711 is this question directed to me?
If you don't control your mind someone else will
And if your mind comes to the wrong conclusions?
@@SacredCASHcow Then seek answers to those wrong conclusions no person knows everything
@@mervinmaxes409 how will you know you've come to the wrong conclusions
@@SacredCASHcowlife will show you the consequences.
@@justiceiria869 vague answer to a serious question is not wisdom. I blame movies and TV shows about prophecy for your mindset
It doesn't matter if its capitalism or socialism if a hand full of people are given all the authority you always end up in hell
Every time!
Animal Farm. Orwell knew this.
But under capitalism it is inevitable that a handful of people will end up with all the authority.
No more so than in any other "system"@@samus598
Capitalism and Socialism are economic systems and not politic systems. It seems that throughout history, Capitalism works better with a Dictatorship and Socialism works best with a true Democracy.
Society has shown time and time again, more so in recent history, how they are more willing to trade freedom for comfort. The desire for Immediate gratification has never been higher
It seems that we are now losing both. Must be drunk or drug user to ignore this reality and it's far from comfort and free.
Which old president said "those who sacrifice their freedoms for security? Deserve neither!
Nothing but bread n circuses imo.
@@4literv6none. Benjamin Franklin said it. He was never president.
@@LizRealGirlBeauty is he the same founder(ie we found the us not made it) that said we had a republic here in america at the founding if we could keep it, vs a democracy?
@@4literv6 he was recorded in a personal diary as having said that, but as a comparison between a monarchy and a republic, but didn't explain what he meant by "if you can keep it" so there's been speculation.
LGBT is also a collectivist ideology. It does not look at the needs of the individual, but at the mass to which it tries to attach anyone with a different orientation, regardless of their views.
same could be said about Christian Nationalism or even Islamic States. In order for any ideology to be executed, it requires a collective approach.
True but most social movements originally were not like this when created. In the 1960s radicalized Leftist groups began to become REALLY good at systematicly inserting themselves & attempting to take over well intentioned social movements. This was seen in the anti-war movement, civil rights movement & others as time moved forward.
Later this evolved into them starting social movements themselves like BLM in order to utilize the movements as fronts to distribute & promote their neo-Marxist propaganda & demand "solutions" that align with their neo-Marxist ideology (DEI, ESG, anti-racism, BRIDGE, etc...)
Huxley was much closer to reality.
#purebloodsforever
Correct.........😮
Over 20 years ago, when I was in 8th grade, my principal stopped me in the hall to tell me that my copy of 1984 was inappropriate for me to have, that I wasn't old enough to read it, and not to bring it back to school.
Orwell was right, he just didnt realize the censorship would start along side the hedonism that Huxley predicted.
When I was in the 8th grade in the late 70's it was a mandatory read for our literature class.
@@StrappedPete yep. Times, they are a changing.
the hedonism is a product of the narcissism that is a counterpart to the way civilization /society is organized (that it is organized as it is is the problem)
human-centrism over earth-centrism
In 1973 when I was in 8th grade my English teacher would be pleased and impressed if I was reading 1984. Our principal was doing God knows what in his office. Miss McNichols would have been proud of you.
Too bad you didn't challenge him by asking him what exactly he found inappropriate within 1984 .... His distilled answer "an aversion to totalitarianism and an awareness of freedom".
Scary how the books showing us of a fictional future coming true. And now these books are starting to be banned
And then you look at the authors' ties to organizations such as the CIA or UN or NGOs that align with the globalist agenda
No there not 😂😂😂
The book was never really meant to be fiction, but a prediction. How accurate time has proven him to be.
@@dai19721this book has been banned on and odd since it was written, and is still banned in Cuba. California would ban it if they could.
What are you gonna do about it except being scared?
Old books will tell so much more than modern news or even events.
They're both right. That's why the 3 circle diagram of 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 , hits hard and is accurate. Remember it possible for multiple things to happening at the same time.
Huxley's pleasure comes before Orwell's pain. Lull the people to submission and then have complete control. Like a frog is a pot of water to boil...
We live in a distopia right now. We are the frogs in the boiling pot. If the founders could see what this country and world have become, they would make a few edits to the Constitution to try to prevent this disaster.
That’s the point we’re at with modern technology. It distracts us and at the same time is used against us by the global elites.
Nothing is happening, only change is taking place. Nothing is guaranteed in the cosmos only change and transformation
I believe that the current iteration of capitalism is a force that consumes all other ideologies and synthesizes them to create something much more difficult to pin down. Anarcho-communism, for example, is being *sold* to disenfranchised youths, who in all reality, stand no chance at overthrowing the system, but their fantasies are nonetheless fostered in their minds by a system seeking to devolve them into the ideal consumer. They are always dissatisfied, neurotic, in need of validation and reassurance that they will be ok and that their views are important and that their actions are paramount to the very survival of the Earth itself. They are hopelessly codependent. Once the individual angst of each one runs out and they lose that energy, they will become disillusioned husks consumed by satisfying a drive for hedonistic pleasure which only capitalism (or rather, consumerism) will be able to provide them with. Addicted to extracting dopamine at all costs.
I read both of these books before I was 14. Now, 55 years later, I appreciate them much more.
check out:
Kallocain
by Karin Boye
So did I and I see what's happening, so clearly
Can you guess how many 14 year olds are reading them today? Headline from a year ago - CS Lewis, Tolkien, Orwell among works tagged as triggers for 'far-right' extremism by anti-terrorism group
I have spent decades waiting for the dictionary to get very fat but it has stayed slim, as the new-speak usurps the previous occupants of the vernacular, dooming once beloved words to the abyss. Double-plus clever.
At the time, the books were cautionary tales. Now we treat them as how-to guides.
''Democracies die, not from military coups, but from being dismantled slowly by bureaucrats and judges, through libel laws, through tax audits, and procedure''. This is what a BBC Radio 4 program called 'Analysis:How To Dismantle a Democracy' will say tonight.
The irony couldn't be greater.
Sounds like someone did not properly pay their taxes.
Amazing; thank you for the tip! Will look forward to hear it
Democracy.... the greatest propaganda psy op in history....
"So-called modern Communism is apparently the same hypocritical world conspiracy to destroy civilization that was founded by the Illuminati, and that raised its head in our colonies here at the critical period before the adoption of our Constitution." - 1953 Senate report, CA.
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism" - V.Lenin
"Democracy is code for socialism" - Bill Cooper
"Democracy is the road to socialism" - Karl Marx
"The goal of socialism is communism" - V.Lenin
"peace is the absence of ALL opposition to socialism." - Karl Marx (the slaughter of all opposition to Democracy/socialism/illuminisn
"Remember, democracy never
lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts,and murders itself. There
never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Democracy, socialism, communism is an ancient creation of the uber rich aka capitalists, two sides of the same coin.
"What the Alchemical managers have bred over a millennia is a
human race of the most wretched stupidity and ignorance unrivaled in thousands of years."
- Michael Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare.
...Democracy.... the greatest propaganda psy op in history....
"So-called modern Communism is apparently the same hypocritical world conspiracy to destroy civilization that was founded by the Illuminati, and that raised its head in our colonies here at the critical period before the adoption of our Constitution." - 1953 Senate report, CA.
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism" - V.Lenin
"Democracy is code for socialism" - Bill Cooper
"Democracy is the road to socialism" - Karl Marx
"The goal of socialism is communism" - V.Lenin
"peace is the absence of ALL opposition to socialism." - Karl Marx (the slaughter of all opposition to Democracy/socialism/illuminisn
"Remember, democracy never
lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts,and murders itself. There
never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Democracy, socialism, communism is an ancient creation of the uber rich aka capitalists, two sides of the same coin.
"What the Alchemical managers have bred over a millennia is a
human race of the most wretched stupidity and ignorance unrivaled in thousands of years."
- Michael Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare.
I feel like we are controlled through both pleasure and pain.
Yes we are control by fear of becoming homeless and greed of chasing desire which are programmed by the system in us.
They call that the "carrot and stick" approach
This is the communist neo Nazi influence
We are already living in a mixture of 1984 and Brave New World. I'm currently waiting for a real life triple mix with Fahrenheit 451.
Have you been inside a Library recently?
The books are disappearing, not up in smoke, but into the landfills.
Literacy rates and attention span erosion are the Real bonfire.
@@NullHandI never thought about it like that... but you're right.
'The Machine Stops' Short story by Forster. pdf free online. Very perceptive indeed.
Yeah, I’m totally going to save up to install my own private library in my house. 😅
@@OmniNeon900 One wall can hold a thousand books. Fair enough if you don't like books but no need to be proud of your ignorance.
I found Huxley's dystopia much more frightening that Orwells
Me too. The copy I have of Brave New World is the second edition, post WW2. In it Huxley revisits his book and adds a more evolved perspective, weighing in the world events that happened in between editions. It's quite the eye opener.
Both are kinda going on right now.
@@pauloalvesdesouza7911Is the second edition available for purchase online and how different is it to the current print? I will also be searching online thanks in advance.
Yes. It's easier to fight 1984's authoritarianism than BNW's authoritarianism. 1984's obvious. BNW's far more opaque.
I don't agree with the favoritism toward Huxley's vision here. I favor Orwell's vision and feel the forceful authoritarianism is the foundation of our loss of freedoms. Huxley's vision is true, but by itself would result in a much slower transition to totalitarianism, with no assurance of actually getting there the way the masters want it.
Just look at the last 4 years and the brute force being inflicted on us in an Orwellian way. Physical police brutality, surveillance, censorship of people's voices and any opinion contrary to the state, 24/7 state sponsored propaganda, psychological warfare against the populace, cancel culture, debanking, the move toward CBDCs, move toward outlawing family farming, etc. Those are Orwellian measures and are foundational to the radical erosion of our individual rights and liberties. The fact is, books containing truth, or at least ideas contrary to the official word, are being banned from sale and from libraries!! Just today I saw an article indicating in France a new law that inflicts a 3-year prison sentence for speaking out against vakseens.
brighteon.social/@HealthRanger/111954086925141776
I'll concede that the Huxleyan pleasures and distractions made people more receptive to authoritarianism. However, technology, weaponry, militarized police forces, surveillance equipment, psychological warfare, and other forms of force laid the groundwork for everything.
Compare the hedonists and their opposites, those who favor liberty. Those who still staunchly favor liberty haven't been able to make a dent in the march toward totalitarianism. For that reason, I view Huxley's vision as little more than an aid to Orwell's vision.
Consequently, I strongly favor Orwell's vision.
INCREDIBLE. All we need to do is “look” around.. and “SEE” what’s going on!
Look at Israel vs. Palestine. Hedonism vs. ideology.
Palestine will be free.
Today's society has become really fascinating for a sociologist or anyone else interested in the matter. It went from "conspiracy" to "not so much conspiracy" to us living in a brave new world already.
"THEY live."
Both of these systems exist today. The only reason they go against each other is to feed the military industrial machine. those in control want it this way as a distraction.
Absolutely!
As I have gotten older now 33 I now have better understanding of why things just didn't sit right with me. The world is vastly different from the lies that are fed to us all when we were younger. God help us all but just as important we the free must help each other.
Roman emperors famously gave the populace "bread and circuses" when there was unrest.
All we get today are the circuses (distractions)
Look what is happening to Julian Assange: can you still say we are not in a totalitarian society!
There is a certain level of suppression indeed. It has always been there and it will never dissapear. However, the current society does not correspond to the definition of a totalitarian society, where ALL criticism of the state is suppressed.
Or hust the taxes you are forced to pay
You are allowed to critize the puppets, but once you talk about their owners, your life is destroyed.
@@nickivens3645 Totalitarianism does not mean that ALL criticism is suppressed. It means the total state, being a state that reigns into everything, even the most private matters of its citizens. And this is exactly what we see. The "current thing" ideology destroys the very nature of humans: partner bonding, family, gender identity, religion, traditions. Everything is replaced by a state-and-big-business created nihilistic, isolated consumer identity. Never has totalitarianism been so dangerous, especially because people do not recognize it as such. The total state does not need concentration camps and executions anymore, as most people are still to lazy and sedated by entertainment to revolt.
@@nickivens3645I think you have the wrong idea, totalitarianism denotes an interminable repression of *accurate* criticisms of the state. It doesn’t have to be to an extensive degree. If we look at how influential Julian assange was with Wikileaks it’s indicative that the globalists of today are only inclined to repress that of which is harmful to their desired hegemony over the social consciousness. You can’t compare the critique of let’s say affodable housing to war crimes commited by the same military you pay for, it’s actually damaging to their credibility and threatens their rule.
There is a clear disconnect between the comman man and the ruling powers in todays age.
Yet here I am, surrounded by people who never knew Divine Comedy, Brave New World, 1984,etc.
I loaned Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 to my co-worker so he would understand the frames of references I was using when I discussed things with him. He read Animal Farm, didn't really understand it, and gave the books back to me. I quit really have conversations with him about certain topics after that. He had no idea what I was talking about and didn't want to know.
You should read Mein Kampf too.
@@metalrules1135 “You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it”~ Morpheus
I totally relate..I can't say I know 1 person I could discuss this with, or share this video.....but if you sent one of people being foolish or something it's great 😮
Youre so superior and edgy. Wow you have read a book and others havent. Amazing
It's turning into a combination of both books, very frightening.
See also 'The Machine Stops'. Short story by Forster - pdf free online.
Yes
Be Like Bob (Marley). Have no fear of atomic energy cuz none of that is gonna stop the time........
Turning?
“Earth Wars”
I always have this image in my head of people who are oblivious to there own reality. It's of a swimmer coming up for air except he is tethered to the bottom by the foot , there is full range of movement so the individual feels "free" and can come up for air anytime , but in reality the pool is being drained and filled giving the illusion of ones own freedom.
Interesting but I ask you, what do you consider true freedom?
Being an inhabitant of this world instead of ownership of every conceivable thing. Simplicity at it's core.@@markdelgado6984
@@markdelgado6984 Not the original commenter, but true freedom IMO is the ability to discern truth from falsehood, and make decisions based on that information. It requires a detachment from one's own desires; and enables us to see beyond the veil of illusions which are cast down from oppressive oligarchs--which allows for fuller participation in the divine mystery (love) bringing out a sense of true fulfillment and purpose in the world.
To me true freedom is to inhabit the earth.. with simplicity at it's core , not trying to own every conceivable thing there is.... The Venus Project comes to mind by Jacque Fresco , definitely worth a look if you haven't checked out a resource based economy. Abundance is the key.@@markdelgado6984
@Markdelgardo tried replying twice wont seem to work , so hopefully this one registers : / , To me true freedom is to inhabit the earth , with simplicity at it's core , not to own every conceivable thing there is....The Venus Project comes to mind by Jacque Fresco , A resource based economy , I would highly recommend you and anyone reading this to look into it , Abundance is key . I particularly like his analogy of abundance and how it could help , He starts by saying imagine if it rained gold for a day people would be ecstatic gathering as much as they could etc....now imagine it rained gold for a whole year ... people would be sweeping it outside , unclogging gutters and no one wants it anymore . The point is , if there is more than enough there is no need to steal / greed / envy etc the vast amount of mankind's problems are simply non existent anymore.
We have been living in an authoritarian dystopia with unseen controllers…now we are beginning to see what’s been going on and waking up to throw off our chains.
Love the optimism
@@BigDG80 30 years ago, no one questioned the NY Times ~ It's progress, albeit very slow and painful....
True! Orwell wasn’t a prophet but merely a social commentator
Most are distracted with BS, i.e. pronouns.
We are building A.I. together without realizing it. As a matter of fact, since the start of our use of the internet we have been inputting all the data for the A.I.
We gave it/ are still giving A.I. its data.
It can work if the a.i. is controlled and regulated by a democratically elected government
There's no going back. We might as well lead. We are not leading right now. But a.i. is amazing.
A.I is not what will rule, but its applications for tyranny are endless.
Correct, were F’d
We live in a combination of the two narratives. If you will not willingly succumb to the distractions of hedonism, then force will be used to prevent you from spreading the notion that it can be resisted.
We must be like chameleons.. fooling those in power into thinking that they have us right where they want us.. when in reality we have been resisting since day 1.. and spreading the truth quietly and ingeniously as not to draw attention to what we are doing 😉
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.".. George Orwell _1984
One could argue that this particular phrase was less of a prediction and more of an observation coupled with the belief that it would only get worse.
The structure of society was already largely framed in that manner when he wrote it.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
The care of home and children is great
Unless you are a marxist = family hate
@@FactsCountdown bullworth movie with Warren Beatty comes to mind "tell them what they want to hear, make em laugh n cheer. And they'll re elect you every year!"
What did goebbels say wayyyyyy back in the 1940s about tell a lie big enough and nobody can challenge it and the state can enforce it through force. It's the same Hegelian dialect crap over&over&OVER again. Nothing new under the sun afterall. 😏
@@FactsCountdown don't forget the wine! History repeats, just like the cycles of the sun and moon
We pretty much have socialism for big corporations nowadays. Where big businesses and the government are one in the same, and the rights of individuals are allowed up until they interfere with a corporation.
How is that socialism? The workers don’t control anything…
Corporate socialism/crony capitalism
Fun fact, Huxley was a mentor of Orwell's. Both were also Fabians. Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell bragging that his vision, not Orwell's had become true.
And it did.
I don't agree with the favoritism toward Huxley's vision here. I favor Orwell's vision and feel the forceful authoritarianism is the foundation of our loss of freedoms. Huxley's vision is true, but by itself would result in a much slower transition to totalitarianism, with no assurance of actually getting there the way the masters want it.
Just look at the last 4 years and the brute force being inflicted on us in an Orwellian way. Physical police brutality, surveillance, censorship of people's voices and any opinion contrary to the state, 24/7 state sponsored propaganda, psychological warfare against the populace, cancel culture, debanking, the move toward CBDCs, move toward outlawing family farming, etc. Those are Orwellian measures and are foundational to the radical erosion of our individual rights and liberties. The fact is, books containing truth, or at least ideas contrary to the official word, are being banned from sale and from libraries!! Just today I saw an article indicating in France a new law that inflicts a 3-year prison sentence for speaking out against vakseens.
brighteon.social/@HealthRanger/111954086925141776
I'll concede that the Huxleyan pleasures and distractions made people more receptive to authoritarianism. However, technology, weaponry, militarized police forces, surveillance equipment, psychological warfare, and other forms of force laid the groundwork for everything.
Compare the hedonists and their opposites, those who favor liberty. Those who still staunchly favor liberty haven't been able to make a dent in the march toward totalitarianism. For that reason, I view Huxley's vision as little more than an aid to Orwell's vision.
Consequently, I strongly favor Orwell's vision.
@@MrDCMiami it may well prove that both versions are prophetic.
What is nice is that we'll soon see who's vision won. Probably less than 10 years away from absolutely no way out
He was wrong though, because they've both come true side by side.
It takes some time till one understands they have been lied to all their lives.
This has been attributed to Mark Twain , amongst others:" It is easier to fool someone , than it is to get them to acknowledged that they have been fooled".
It's not an easy to accept the idea that you've been living a lie ,
all of your life !
Ironically, that's practically the mythology of today. The regime declares every narative in the past and present except their own to be a lie; and encourages its followers to feel enlightened by following them. The opposition views all reality as a lie, and chases a thousand different crazy narratives.
The argument for both is calling all other narratives a lie, rather than any truth
Hmmmmm. My message was deleted and I only found out because a suspicious message appeared in my notifications.
I don't know that my comment was worth repeating; but the extremely suspicious username is worth wondering about.
This is playing out exactly Like Orwell and Huxley have warned, or written willingly....Including the part about "not knowing and caring" that its happening..
we need a solution manual.
step by step on how to get out of this upcoming enslavement
Too late for that. @@rawfoodphilosophy7061
They knew the plan
We absolutely could fight back. Problem is not enough are willing.
would it cut into our video game time? Or youtube watching?@@That1PissedOffBoomer
Not so much a golden cage
as it is a velvet noose
We are not just bearing the prison of wealth
nor look away from the goaler's greed
as we are now facing to go extinct, softly with a smile
Narrator: "They were both correct."
It's sad to see us moving in this direction, with a nice side of Fahrenheit 451 to finish us off.
Huxley's reality already exists. People just don't realize it yet.
85% of the population doesn’t exercise much of any critical thinking
They won’t realize it
It’s up to 5-15% to revolutionize what the rest that are asleep sees
It’s like a hybrid of both 1984 & BNW.. Def leery of the official stories on even those OG wars.. The powers that be hated certain parties a little too much imo
I must say Huxley was correct about America. The over indulgence has led to a non productive society as a whole. Legalize drugs and having a society that isn't just escapist, but also non performing.
Our subjugation by totalitarian forces, based on current trends, will not be the result of physical coercion by a military force as often imagined in Hollywood dystopian films. Rather, it seems that we are all too willing to cede our autonomy and freedom on the altar of convenience, materialism, narcissism and sensory pleasure, which causes us to willfully disclose all that should be private.
authoritarian
You can be quite sure that the government will eagerly supply that “one more social crisis” as soon as they have prepared the ground.
They have laid the ground work they let millions come into the country even helped ship them all over the US this entire presidency. Now they will either do a false flag or an actual attack will happen then they'll shut off the grid to create chaos and confusion while they implement the detainment/elimination phase of patriotic Americans. No communications no ability to coordinate or know what is taking place around the country. Cameras and smart phones useless when there is no service no ability to upload or communicate. And most Americans don't have other means to communicate like ham radio nor do most know how to use it.
Get the tinfoil and start making your hats....
great video, what is your opinion on the novel "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin? "We" was published in 1920 (before 1984 and Brave New World) and had a great influence on the other novels, "We" suggests that if the One State destroys our creative abilities, then there could never be any thought crime (1984), there would be no reason to seek pleasure (Brave New World), creativity allows for individual expression, it also serves as a way to process trauma/emotions/etc, but to destroy the creative spirit is to dehumanize that spirit until there is no difference between the self and we
We is the best piece of dystopian fiction I've encountered.
This is like Nietzsche’s Last man.
Treat both as a Hegelian dialectic because it looks like a synthesis is what we're getting.
James Lindsey would be proud you’ve done your homework
Yup
Technology and Totalitarianism COMMENT ✍️:
This video is a great analysis of the two dystopian novels that have shaped our understanding of totalitarianism and its dangers. I agree with the main point that both 1984 and Brave New World depict different ways of how freedom can die, and that we should be vigilant of the signs of both in our own society.
However, I think there is another aspect that the video does not address, which is the role of technology in enabling and facilitating totalitarian control. Both Orwell and Huxley were writing in a time when technology was not as advanced and pervasive as it is today, and they could not foresee the extent to which it would affect our lives and our freedoms.
In 1984, technology is used by the Party to monitor, manipulate, and terrorize the population. Telescreens, microphones, cameras, and other devices are everywhere, constantly watching and listening to every move and word of the citizens. The Party also uses technology to alter history, rewrite news, and create propaganda. Technology is a tool of oppression and deception in 1984.
In Brave New World, technology is used by the World State to condition, pacify, and entertain the population. Genetic engineering, artificial wombs, hypnopaedia, and soma are some of the technologies that are used to create and maintain a society of happy and obedient consumers. Technology is a tool of seduction and distraction in Brave New World.
In our own society, technology is used for both purposes, depending on who is using it and for what end. Technology can be used to enhance our freedom, creativity, and communication, or it can be used to limit our privacy, autonomy, and critical thinking. Technology can be used to expose the truth, or it can be used to spread lies. Technology can be used to connect us, or it can be used to divide us.
We should not be complacent or naive about the power and influence of technology in our lives. We should not blindly trust or reject technology, but rather question and evaluate its effects and implications. We should not let technology control us, but rather use it wisely and responsibly. We should not let technology become our master, but rather our servant.
We should remember the words of Orwell and Huxley, and learn from their warnings. We should cherish and defend our freedom, and resist any attempts to take it away. We should not let ourselves become like the characters in 1984 or Brave New World, who have lost their humanity and individuality. We should not let our society become like the ones in those novels, where freedom has died.
Agreed and well said. God help us all help ourselves to end the tyrannical Governments. 🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸
I would like to add there is trend to side with left or right positions without realizing that actors on BOTH sides are supporting totalitarian aims.
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I don't agree with the favoritism toward Huxley's vision here. I favor Orwell's vision and feel the forceful authoritarianism is the foundation of our loss of freedoms. Huxley's vision is true, but by itself would result in a much slower transition to totalitarianism, with no assurance of actually getting there the way the masters want it.
Just look at the last 4 years and the brute force being inflicted on us in an Orwellian way. Physical police brutality, surveillance, censorship of people's voices and any opinion contrary to the state, 24/7 state sponsored propaganda, psychological warfare against the populace, cancel culture, debanking, the move toward CBDCs, move toward outlawing family farming, etc. Those are Orwellian measures and are foundational to the radical erosion of our individual rights and liberties. The fact is, books containing truth, or at least ideas contrary to the official word, are being banned from sale and from libraries!! Just today I saw an article indicating in France a new law that inflicts a 3-year prison sentence for speaking out against vakseens.
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I'll concede that the Huxleyan pleasures and distractions made people more receptive to authoritarianism. However, technology, weaponry, militarized police forces, surveillance equipment, psychological warfare, and other forms of force laid the groundwork for everything.
Compare the hedonists and their opposites, those who favor liberty. Those who still staunchly favor liberty haven't been able to make a dent in the march toward totalitarianism. For that reason, I view Huxley's vision as little more than an aid to Orwell's vision.
Consequently, I strongly favor Orwell's vision.
Actually just about every picture showed technology enslaving people.
"We" by Zamyatin was written in 1921 and forms the celebrated trilogy of dystopian novels along with "Brave New World" and "1984"
I think you can add Anthem to that and possibly That Hideous Strength.
I read brave new world at about 14. I did a book report on it that made everyone think I was weird. The next book report was on the stranger by Camus. I read 1984 at about 16. I am a reader. I mention that to illustrate how weird it is that I don't remember hearing about this other book. How interesting . I am totally going to look it up. Thanks for the info.
@@frankfisher99Anthem? What about atlas shrugged?
@@ruthgrey7190 that came much later and I would not call it dystopian
Never heard of it, interesting.
The transition of this channel from paintings to AI photos is also an allegory.
Is it allegory, or hypocrisy?
I recently had a great conversation with a friend of mine explaining the difference between the two…
Both Orwell and Huxley had a grasp of human nature. There is a tendency in the West to prefer to be left alone, and to not be suspicious enough of those who make their central purpose the pursuit of power and prestige. These two characteristics taken together create the circumstances in which government power or other forces grow so powerful and ubiquitous, to be threatening to the common man.
I don’t believe the issue is whether people are sheeplike, but the fact that people have difficulty understanding wolves.
Great observations. You hit the nail on the head when you said (people) " have difficulties understanding wolves" . The behaviour of the wolves is not something they've been taught to see/or recognize, so it's oblivious to them.
Do you remember those old cartoons where a wolf would cover itself in a sheep skin so he could get close to the herd ? Some of the sheep are smart enough to recognize the ruse, but most of them don't... not until it's too late !
finished animal farm earlier today . could have looked out the window to witness the begining of the book
My favorite channel one TH-cam. This should all be taught to kids at homeschool. Unfortunately public education would never allow this type of critical thinking to be taught to
children.
Free food programs for all and cat litter boxes in the bathrooms for those that identify as cats is the new norm for government charity in ‘education’. Hegel is loving the outcome
The last image reminds me of Castle Grey Skull. I HAVE THE POWER ! We are in an avalanche of information and most don't care. We all have the time and ability to be self taught now and yet people spend 10 hrs a day watching mindless garbage. In a time of potential beyond our dreams and it's slipping away. Namaste
I never really understood the "Boot" phrase in the book, UNTIL I started hearing from people like Noval Harari.
They've been stamping on our faces for centuries, since the traitors in our midst allowed them back into our nations and into our banking system and Royalty.
can u explain?
yes explain please
I thought the boot treading on a human face for all eternity was pretty self explanatory. I'm not sure what there was for you to "figure out" it wasn't an encrypted message my guy.
Harari is straight up spooky. The rhetoric he spouts breathlessly is the stuff that genocides come from.
Always remember that YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.
11:14 "So perhaps all that is missing to throw us permanently into the dystopian world depicted in 1984 is one more social crisis" Oh yes indeed, I personally had a taste of that during the last one. True, I did not respect any of the rules that were imposed on society at a global scale and I'm proud of it. But just around 12 hours before the lockdown would come to an end where I live, I went for a stroll like I so often did despite the forbidding decrees. Given the relief I felt in that unique moment, I was perhaps a little less cautious than other days. While seating on a bench and enjoying the sunlight, I saw in the corner of my eye a police car slowly crawling behind me, pulling up to me. The two cops walked out and one asked me "So what are you doing here?" There was a queue of people buying their bread around the corner and it was forbidden to queue after a certain number of people. "I'm waiting for the people to finish buying their bread to go there myself" I said, pointing at them. "You think I look like an idiot?" said the same cop. In a split second I understood it wasn't gonna go down well. I also remembered all the videos of police abuse we, the non-believers, passed on to one another and realized I now knew what took place right before all those videos started. They gave me shit, shouted at me, hoping to get me into a fight-or-flight mode, for them to have a bit of action and a laugh. But I did my best to keep my cool, although I hadn't been that scared in years. It was the end of the lockdown and there were patrols prowling around the streets, trying to squeeze the last few drops of fun they could get out of the situation. Hoping to beat the crap out of someone, but in accordance with the law. Protected by the law. It takes very little to have men in uniform turn into thugs, it wasn't the first time I'd seen it.
"Ils ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux" Étienne de La Boétie
La Boétie was a genius. In "Discours de la servitude voluntaire" he painted a very recognisable picture of the malaise of modern 'western' society when he was around 18 years old. This was in the middle of the 16th century!
Nothing is more dangerous than a person 'just following orders'.
We're already there and most either don't see it or willingly ignore it. After all ignorance is bliss right?!
I think Huxley will ultimately prove correct, because those who would rule over others are seldom satisfied with the fact of ruling; such people are enamored of the trappings of power, most notably the ability to force others to do what they do not wish to do.
Neil postman’s amusing ourselves to death and technopoly are amazing book’s that everyone should read
Sadly, most people don't read. And the message of these books will never reach them. It's been over for a long time. We've already lost.
Do you know 'The Machine Stops' by Forster? So many echos of modern life. It is a short story and a pdf is easy to find for free online.
@@OnPointFirearmsit’s never to late. I’m nearly 43 and I only started reading books less than four years ago. Everyone just needs to do their bit and encourage people they know to start reading.
@@Hereford1642I think I may have heard jaron Lanier mention it in a couple of interviews. It peaked my interest but I not got around to reading it yet.
T'ha fact that in the west oligarchs are disguised as "entrepreneurs" "billionaires" and "companies" mean that they'd already won the battle.
These books are my favorite and have been since high school
Think whatever you want. Just do it critically and with genuine intellectual honesty.
The 5 Steps to Critical Thinking:
What is critical thinking?
In general, critical thinking refers to actively questioning statements rather than blindly accepting them.
Critical thinking results in radical free will.
1. The critical thinker is flexible yet maintains an attitude of healthy skepticism.
Critical thinkers are open to new information, ideas, and claims. They genuinely consider alternative explanations and possibilities. However, this open-mindedness is tempered by a healthy sense of skepticism (Hyman, 2007).
The critical thinker consistently asks, “What evidence supports this claim?”
2. The critical thinker scrutinizes the evidence before drawing conclusions.
Critical thinkers strive to weigh all the available evidence before arriving at conclusions. In evaluating evidence, critical thinkers distinguish between empirical evidence versus opinions based on feelings or personal experience.
3. The critical thinker can assume other perspectives.
Critical thinkers are not imprisoned by their own points of view. Nor are they limited in their capacity to imagine life experiences and perspectives that are fundamentally different from their own. Rather, the critical thinker strives to understand and evaluate issues from many different angles.
4. The critical thinker is aware of biases and assumptions.
In evaluating evidence and ideas, critical thinkers strive to identify the biases and assumptions that are inherent in any argument (Riggio & Halpern, 2006). Critical thinkers also try to identify and minimize the influence of their own biases.
5. The critical thinker engages in reflective thinking.
Critical thinkers avoid knee-jerk responses. Instead, critical thinkers are reflective. Most complex issues are unlikely to have a simple solution. Therefore, critical thinkers resist the temptation to sidestep complexity by boiling an issue down to an either/or, yes/no kind of proposition. Instead, the critical thinker expects and accepts complexity (Halpern, 2007).
Critical thinking is not a single skill, but rather a set of attitudes and thinking skills. As is true with any set of skills, you can get better at these skills with practice.
In a nut shell, critical thinking is the active process of minimizing preconceptions and biases while evaluating evidence, determining the conclusions that can reasonably be drawn from evidence, and considering alternative explanations for research findings or other phenomena.
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
>Why might other people want to discourage you from critical thinking?
>In what situations is it probably most difficult or challenging for you to exercise critical thinking skills? Why?
> What can you do or say to encourage others to use critical thinking in evaluating questionable claims or assertions?
Thanks for the detailed explanation. With any luck it might have a positive effect on at least one person, while the majority would undoubtedly consider calling you names and having you cancelled. Again, thanks.
Read the " Protocols of the learned elders of Zion" and it all fits.
Waters flow Eastward is older than 1984 or new world. Nothing new under the sun
In the last couple of years, TH-cam keep removing any uploads for the nearly four hour audiobook reading of it.
KGB work. Already proved to be fake. I also felt for that.
@@leaodejuda7924 Every bit of the PoZ came true though.
Kudos on such a well assessed synopsis. If I may add a small suggestion, it would be to wrap up with a summary of the parallels in these key books to our contemporary society/culture (USA, in my case). Although I'd always assumed, in the past, that these books were required reading in school, usually accompanied by book report assignments, I'm baffled by our culture's complete oblivion to these lessons as they adopt all the Soma-esque trappings and the divide-and-conquer Hegelian dialectic narratives of their favorite talking head puppet show "news" media. Great video!
"People will willingly forgo freedom so long as their appetite for pleasure and consumption is fulfilled"
In "Homage to Catalonia" you can read that Orwell was an Anarchist which allowed him to see both Communism and Fascism as similar. In some way fascists and communists united to fight anarchism in Spain which led to the fall of something that was an utopia made real where people self organised.
All the -isms like to claim Orwell as their own.
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is the prefix. Other than that trifling difference, they are identical twins
"Don't let it happen."
Beautiful thank you
FINALLY a person who mentions brave new world. The insights on the differing views of Huxley and Orwell are extremely interesting tho
I don’t see how any thinking person could believe that this constant progress and movement towards abundance didn’t have an expiration date.
Throughout all of human history, the plight of the everyman has been suffering. We are incredibly fortunate to have been alive during this lovely sliver of time in which people have lived in relative peace, comfort, and freedom.
If history teaches us anything, it is that this is very likely to be temporary, and some version of a much darker existence is imminent.
Indeed. I call it the 'Disney Borg'... 5 years from now, the world as it is today will be unrecognizable. Choose whom you will serve this day.
WOW! 🤯 Excellently done! 😊
Thank you for the quality presentation.
The book the 5th wave pretty much says, "aliens" show up and that makes the military round up everyone and take the children from the adults. The children are taken to bases where they are trained with a new headset viewfinder thing and sent out to kill anything the headset highlights for them. They realize that the headset just targets anything without another headset. The aliens mind controlled the adults and used the military to enact the plan. The thumbnail made me think of this book. Huxley's and Orewell books are blueprints, they wanted this, they just thought it was gonna be down the road a few generations not affecting there kids.
great video as always guys, keep it up
I hope the irony of discussing dystopias, then illustrating it all with soulless AI art is not lost on you.
And using that unbearable AI voice over
AI can be our savior. It's the people misusing it, that will be our downfall. It's in our hands.
@aceyage I think most people know this.
However, the fact that it's in the hands of companies who absolutely do not have our best interest in mind... I don't hold out much hope.
@@kyer9677 I think open source algorithms will win out here. I don't see a single company compete with a vast network of collaborators. Hardware on the other hand...
There is absolutely no way this can end well imo. But ig we will see :)
This is the best philosophic website on the internet. Thank you!
New Discourses with James Lindsey is also worthy
I was waiting on this low key 💯
I’ve been saying this for years.
yup
me too
And yet here we are. it’s almost as if saying things on the internet does not equal political action
@@Finn959 I try to find constitutionalist politicians but they can’t even make it out of a primary.
Good stuff brother:) I wish more people would look past their own bellies and see that the cage around them is being built.
We could stop this if we weren’t so divided.
It all goes back to the heart of man.
absolutely excellently put together.
Absolutely perfect timing! With John Wards new video titled Monomyth 1 Ordinary World, he goes into comparing and contrasting 1984 with Brave New World as to how things have played out in the real world so far. Highly Recommend for viewers of this channel. I hope I dont come across as a bolony-rider of his man-meat, but this is Academy of Ideas. Ideas, thoughts, discussions, free speech, this channel champions.
Don't let your memes be dreams.
Well here we sit... in front of our screens...
At least this video is informative and makes us aware of what's happening
My opinion is that Orwells overall picture was right and that Huxley's picture applies to Orwells proles.
Great video, thanks!
Even of greater prescience is Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day." So much so that another book "This Pervasive Day" was complied to examine how close humanity is in arriving at a "this perfect day'.
Agree 100%. Why is this book never mentioned? We are living "this perfect day" already. You'll
own nothing and you'll be happy!
The power of art is to reveal the human soul.
With a view to?
@@beingsshepherd To gain unrest and ing of the human condition.
Anyone who enjoyed this ( I certainly did) should look into the Huxley/Orwell "beef" 😂 they were super passive aggressive to each other 😂
Nothing is new under the sun. These same ideologies applied to the fall of Rome and the fall of the ottomans. The easier access to pleasure the easier you forget how to handle pain.
Great review, thanks
Good review, thanks
I can elements of both Orwell and Huxley in our fall into a dystopian society.
You make amazing videos.. Please keep it up!
I would say both are correct. Huxley was a prelude to what Orwell concluded...
💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎
Thank you for what you do.
Academy of Ideas always produces great stuff...
The thing about ‘freedom’ is that it’s a nonsensical & abstract word. It’s a subjective term like ‘fair’ and ‘value’ . I think a lot of these types words are just foolishly created to give comfort to mask the harsh reality that chaos is always around us. The best thing you can do is just be decent to others because we all influence each other everyday, directly or indirectly.
Love your content
This video filled me with positivity, as always :)
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting" - Sun Tzu. Such a video, just like the 1984 and BNW books, are warnings to resist. Not for defeatism, giving up and thinking it's too late already ! If "they" were that powerful and winning so easy, we would already be in a fully authoritarian world.
In germany they literally say: you don’t live alone. society is more important than anyone personally. So they feel entitled to force you to get jabbed or whatever else the tv says.
Academy of Ideas, you are doing good work, do more.
Well done! I really enjoy your work.
Orwell was incorrect in that greater economic freedom has historically reduced poverty and increased civil liberties. Something he directly benefited from being a British subject, as Sowell has discussed. The modern West is arguably only partially free economically, as many if not most government regulations heavily benefit corporate oligarchies. Huxley is interesting. Brave New World was published 17 years before Nineteen Eighty Four. This was still the dawn of mass media. Radio had only been around about a decade, and talking pictures five years. Television was still a curiosity. Yet as time goes on, while there are elements of 1984 appearing in our society, Huxley's vision is the closest to what we're seeing right now. The curious thing is that participation in BNW's society is technically voluntary. They don't forcibly reeducate nonconformists like INGSOC does. Instead, they're just shoved out of the way. They're sent to remote communes with other free thinkers, where they can do as they choose without interference from the World State. Yet even Bernard, who's deeply unhappy with society, still considers this a punishment worse than death.
You should have added to your analysis of Orwell and Huxley, CS Lewis' ABOLITION OF MAN.
Thank you for an excellent podcast .
In my humble opinion, they're both right. Huxley's first, which we've already entered, then Orwell's will follow.
If you're not already, start following the world economic forum. Watch previous videos. They are telling us all of this directly. Unfortunately hardly any are listening.
Fantastic! (as always!) Your videos are invaluable!
The entertainment value you mean?
Great artwork.❤❤