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George Orwell & 1984: How Freedom Dies - Video

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Academy of Ideas

Published on Dec 30, 2017

 

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Academy of Ideas1 year ago (edited)

I have noticed in the comments that some people are suggesting I misinterpreted Orwell’s view of socialism – specifically that he didn’t advocate a centrally planned economy. But as David Ramsay Steele explains in his book Orwell Your Orwell, in the 1930s and 1940s to be a democratic socialist meant something quite different than it does today. Firstly, here is Orwell defining socialism: ““Socialism is usually defined as common ownership of the means of production. Crudely: the State, representing the whole nation, owns everything, and everyone is a State employee.” (George Orwell, Complete Works Volume XII, page 410) And here are a few passages from David Ramsey Steele’s book which explain Orwell’s position: “To be a socialist in 1936 [the year Orwell became a socialist] meant favoring the swift abolition of private ownership of factories, mines, big farms, railroads, and banks. . . After 1950, to quickly convey to someone … Orwell’s political orientation, you would have to say: “he became an extreme, hard-core, left-wing socialist”.” “Orwell always dismissed anarchism as utterly impracticable. He briefly mentioned anarchism in 1945, in his review of a book by his friend the anarchist Herbert Reed. Here, as against Reed, Orwell asserts that anarchy is incompatible with high living standards because modern industry requires “a planned, centralized society.” “For Orwell, socialism is a planned society by definition, as contrasted with capitalism, which is by definition unplanned. So closely was socialism identified with planning that socialists would sometimes use a phrase like “a planned society” as a synonym for socialism, and Orwell himself does this too.” “Democracy too is part of Orwell’s picture of socialism, though when he employs the term “democracy,” he is usually referring to civil liberties rather than to decisions by majority vote – not that he rejects majoritarian rule, but that when he talks about “democracy,” this is not uppermost in his mind.” I highly recommend reading Steele’s book if you want a thorough introduction to Orwell’s ideas: http://amzn.to/2CwU8qI

Tom Douglas1 year ago

How do you destroy freedom? Simply make lies truth and truth lies.

Dan Harris1 week ago

You don’t need chains to make a person a slave.

Steve Chaszar1 week ago

first they steal the words, than they steal the meaning…

daimyo210 months ago

1984 was one of the most terrifying books Ive read. Thats because how terrifyingly real it is

Sarief.live5 months ago

well, 2019 it’s now confirmed that he was right :( Facecrime (cavington kid), thoughtcrime (prison time for liking tweets), mass surveilance, propaganda

John Tim1 week ago

“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” Orwell.

Evan1 week ago

I was just searching “new google policies” and I was brought here. I guess their algorithm works

Manko Kennewick1 week ago

Well he’s right, lies have become truth.

Vincent Mileto1 week ago

The more power is concentrated into one body,(the state) the more corrupt and tyrannical that body will become to justify it’s own existence!

Hightown1 day ago

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” ― G. Michael Hopf,

Joe Chandler1 day ago

The three most important books written in the last century are ’1984′, ‘Brave New World’, and ‘The Gulag Archipelago’.

Denis B3 days ago

Social media has created the mechanism to feed hedonism along with the truth is lie and lie is truth culture.

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Eric D4 days ago

The 2nd Amendment is the best defense against an overly intrusive government.

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MrGchiasson6 days ago

I just watched the BBC movie from 1954…1984. Eerie to watch. Look around today… Orwell was a prophetic genius.

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Chris Van Bekkum3 days ago

Young people ,take heed !! It is YOUR freedom at stake.

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Matt S5 days ago

“We should stand against this tyrannical government!” goes to the government to get a permit to protest the government.

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Trevor Grindz2 days ago

It’s official : the book banning has begun.

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Anti Law1 day ago

Slavery starts at the printing press at the Federal reserve! You all been stooped and you sit and do nothing.

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J. P.2 days ago

Yep, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, even The Matrix taught us & showed us what sort of world we could potentially sleepwalk our way into if we weren’t vigilant, but we’ve completely disregarded any & all warnings & seem to be sprinting headlong into a hellish world of our own design. INSANITY.

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Science Junkie 5 by 54 days ago

China is full steam ahead with their technological dystopia. The West is on the same path. India. Australia. New Zealand. Parts of Africa. All heading to a dystopian future called The New World Order. Huxley was correct and when Huxley’ s version starts to get resistance the Orwell’s version kicks in and the peoples are beaten into submission.

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MsTaly991 week ago

When you limit the freedom of the individual “economic sovereignty of the individual” you kill the ambition of the individual soul and create a slave mentality!

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Kenneth Bowers6 days ago

Make the young people question their freedoms and hate the nation that was built for them as the old generation fades away.

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OnesComplement6 days ago

Hate speech is the trojan horse of thought crime. Orwell’s dystopia is knocking on the door.

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Johnny K3 days ago

I think the elite already have control as totalitarian dictators but do so by such clandestine means the masses can’t recognize or decipher

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Jeremy Locklear1 day ago

Damn good vid, wake up americans……open your sedated minds to the obvious.

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Martin Price1 week ago

It’s happening through safety and law enforcement. The false flag attack’s like the fake war on drugs. Covertly brought in by government then enforced by government.

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11B Retired2 days ago

In order to achieve absolute power, you must first disarmed the Citizen abilities to defend themselves.

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Eagle11 week ago

I lived in a socialist country so I can speak first hand. The problem with socialism is that human are placed in charge of sharing out the ration and that is where the problem is, you have to hope that the persons handing out the items don’t take a dislike to you as you will not get shit, for want of a better word. With capitalism you turn up with your money and buy what ever is being sold.

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Hatter2 days ago

Interesting that Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) was Eric Blair’s (George Orwell) English Professor during his one year at Eton.

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Dan Treadway1 year ago

What replaced capitalism is “Socialism for the Rich”

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KRAZEEIZATION6 days ago (edited)

Its humanity’s own fault for acting like sheep, going on blinkered from day to day gaping at smartphones and foolishly thinking its free when it’s in fact becoming more enslaved by the machine day by day.

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larky3684 days ago

The problem with his book is that it has become a “How To” manual.

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James Alexander16 hours ago

The Alt-Feminist wet dream would be of Big Sister. We’ll probably see her face around the place in a couple years time.

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michael page23 hours ago

one of the best places to start is with McLuhan, read his classic Understanding Media; Whoever controls the media controls the mind…

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Erik Halle1 year ago

I fear that Orwell will turn out to be right in the long run. We are currently living in something resembling the Brave New World: a state of confusion, fake news and an overflow of entertainment. While the public is willfully submitting to an image portrayed by mass media (and alternative media for those who view themselves as enlightened enough to not fall for whatever bullshit story CNN makes up), those who hold the real power are constantly working towards centralization, all while crushing every attempt at sovereignty in the process.

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because it’s not right3 days ago

Having found cat crap in perfume I never trust sweet smelling people

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Youtube Account#:4571 day ago (edited)

They’re trying it out with guns. Find something hated by a majority of people, spread as many lies as humanly possible to see exactly how much they can get away with. -Assault weapon meant a weapon that can fire full-auto. Congress now says it’s anything that fires one bullet when the trigger is pulled. -30 round magazines are standard, Congress now refers to them as “High capacity” -FBI and CDC gun crime statistics say that out of all gun deaths: -Pistols: 20,000 suicides, 9,000 murders Rifles: 100 suicides, 400 murders Shotguns: 200 suicides, 300 murders Yet congress claims that banning assault weapons (a definition they changed) will heavily impact gun violence, which it won’t. They’re also influencing how gun owners are viewed, adding social shame to anyone who may want a firearm. You’re painted as creepy, insecure about your masculinity, a possible threat to society, and many other things. People accept it because “hey, guns are icky”. At the end of the day, it just proves how easily people can be controlled if they are afraid. See you guys when the “assault weapons ban of 2022” passes in the US and saves the world………..somehow.

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Paddy Orourke1 day ago

Excellent! Scary, but, more than happy to share it with others. 👍

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N G S7 hours ago

How many conspiracy theorists does it take to change a lightbulb?

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DougE2 days ago

“Democratic” socialism. That’s funny.

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Ralph Moreno10 months ago

In the words of Ray Bradbury in “Fahrenheit 451″…… “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.” This pattern of thought is entering the mainstream, especially in the U.S. Is it dangerous? I’ll let you do the thinking…

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Kiaro Spor4 days ago

China’s social credit program is a totalitarian 1984 nightmare.

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Steve Howard5 hours ago

I worked in a sales environment for around 15 years, you learned the expression “tell ‘em what they want to hear”!🤔

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Force Ghost2 days ago

Since giving up my smart phone I see so many constantly glued to theirs. Much akin to being the designated driver on a night out in the company of drunk friends.

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Joann P11 hours ago

1984,knocking on your door, Will you let him come in Song,1984,Group,Spirit. Banned on some radio stations when it first came out.

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krazydreamer22 hours ago

Unfounded!? Are you kidding!!? We totally live in an oligarchy! And the blindness continues. Smh.

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John Robison1 day ago

Important point about democratic socialism was recognized by Hitler and Stalin which is socialism and democracy are completely incompatible. Without the use of force human nature applies more than enough force to destroy a socialist economy and the democratic government supporting it.

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MrB19231 year ago

Inverted facism is here. State owned by corporations.

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Philip Hall3 days ago

No mention of the target-reward system that infects every workplace , and how it’s being pushed ever further down our throats

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Kasper77777777777715 hours ago

It seems Huxley was right. We are consumed by hedonism and the avoidance of discomfort.

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Randall Camburn1 day ago

Orwell had incredible insight.

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Select Talent 2k ProAm Club1 day ago

Socialism doesn’t work. Tried & failed numerous times.

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koczisek3 hours ago

2 corrections: 1. don’t forget what was behind iron curtain and especially Soviet Union for ~72 years, but what you in the west didn’t experience, 2. it’s much to early to state that Orwell’s scenario failed; your last sentence is the key – the republican democratic socialist welfare states are just beginning to show they full capabilities for collectivism and ultimately emerging global communism. Consider Bolshevik/Menshevik – Lenin/Martov split within communist movement – both were staunch communists.

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Maria Taylor1 hour ago

Freedom dies from democrats, leftists and central banking….

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Antonio Brandao15 hours ago

Technology will make liberty and free association possible.

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Andrew Reebel1 week ago

I would disagree that we are already in a totalitarian state. They just use newspeak to confuse us into thinking our society is separately structured through a series of industries and corporations. Except those industries and corporations are controlled by a small group and therefore totalitarian

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Joe Turner1 day ago

Hah! 7:15 is the Champs Elysee. 7:29, looks like an old picture of where I now live on the Bay of Biscay. I decided to live ‘outside the asylum’.

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Flag Coco23 hours ago

Fast forward two years from when you made this video. American capitalism has morphed into fascism. Witness the famous Fourteen Points and see for yourself. American political thought is completely collectivist. There are only two parties worth anything, and many believe they work together to maintain the status quo. There is little individual thought outside the Republican and Democratic spheres. To be a good American, you have to be a good Republican or Democrat. And the sole purpose of the existence of these two parties is the maintenance of their power. They’ve so deeply conditioned the voters into believing that they can only vote for one or the other, and you must determine not which party fits your ideals the best, but rather, which party is the more corrupt and evil and vote for the other out of fear. The American government and American corporations are intertwined, the classical definition of fascism. At this point, we have the illusion of democracy. When poll after poll determines we want universal health care, we want real gun reform, we want sane immigration policy, and none of those things come to fruition, we are no longer a democracy. When those same polls say we don’t want the uber-rich to get more tax breaks, and the uber-rich get them, it’s plain to see who is benefitting in this society, who really runs the government. Your analysis of Orwell and Huxley is spot on. Your analysis of America is way off.

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Free China13 hours ago

Are we at the swing point now of democratic socialism/totalitarianism? Maybe we always are but it feels kinda strong now…

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Mark Ramkhelawan5 months ago

35 years late. But true and happening right before our eyes!

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David Smith3 hours ago (edited)

I’ve read both Orwell and Huxley, and I’ve listened, and read, and watched debates for years on the topic of a grand take-over of society by an evil plan envisioned by evil people that would turn us all into milk-toast robots with no free will, and no purpose, other than to serve the state. Today, there’s a fear campaign regarding the New World Order (NWO) because George H.W. Bush happened to use the phrase in a speech in 1989. In fact, the term is a lot older than that and can be traced back to Woodrow Wilson and World War I, when the intent was to predict a period of change in the balance of power, and a world safe for democracy. Since then, the idea has been corrupted and the meaning changed by the conspiracy theorists, and now various interpretations can mean just about anything you want as long as it’s something that strikes fear in every living person. Like many, I’ve seen elements of the things authors in the past have envisioned for a Utopian plan gone wrong, but I haven’t yet been convinced that there is a small group of the very rich who have a master scheme to control the masses so they can be even more rich. As the saying goes, “you can’t take it with you,” so what would be the point. That goes for money as well as power.

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The Imaginary Gallery2 hours ago

Orwell’s 1984 is a documentary. A true story.

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Liam Gratehouse1 week ago

Capitalism is dead already. We’re living in a corporate oligarchy.

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Jaded Cynic2 hours ago

Yes it has led to totalitarian leaders. What do you think the plan was for Hillary’s presidency?

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GreyMatr3 hours ago

Who else always hears the world ‘inevitable’ in Team America’s Kim Jon voice?

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Ryan Butcher1 day ago

He was very wrong in his ideas of socialism history proves that.

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Bob Ravenscraft1 day ago

Welcome to the end times everyone’s got a two bit opinion

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Kingsman4 days ago

Do 1984 on Audible, the narrator’s voice is perfect, spine tingling, sinister with perfect delivery to scare the shit out of you.

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youtubesucks1 day ago (edited)

Wring think is alive and well today. But of course he is a socialist..his book was predictive programming NOT a warning. It was a plan. He had access. He knew the end goal. Theres no way government control over everything is a good thing. Our forefathers had it right..we just need PATRIOTS to ENFORCE the constitution

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ramblings adrift1 day ago

This is laden with total BS. Historical facts are twisted WAY OUT OF PROPORTION

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Rohan Rohan3 hours ago

Orwell was an ironic idiot though. He missed a critical detail while criticising a certain person.

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Jonathan Jones3 hours ago

I understand why pure socialism is bad, but I don’t quiet understand the people who believe there should be no form of socialism at all.

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CommonSense811 day ago

“Brother” in Big Brother is a direct link to Freemasonry in the Orwellian society he correctly predicted.

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Brynley Talbot3 hours ago

We are free to consume. We are free to think in tribalistic ideologies shaping our thoughts. Orwell saw the means. Huxley saw the result. Both were great thinkers, something we lack in our thought consumerist society where even books are focused on niche ideas to appeal to simplistic minds easily controlled into their prejudices. I’m writing on a medium where algorithms feed my prejudices. My thoughts are selected for me and appear in preselected videos that might interest me. I’m fed my thoughts by a machine. And I no longer know if the people presenting them are true advocates or just exploiting my time for their own gain through slick presentational styles and marketing. What’s true anymore? Orwell died on the cusp of wants being turned into needs by a manufacturing economy needing growth in demand when all needs were met. Advertising provided this, just as the image of Huxley’s World showed. We were like lemmings plunging off the cliff into a sea of welcome diversions promising us lives of plenty. Much as we look at the naivety of that generation fooled into dreams we now see as illusions and deceptive in intent we too, in generations to come, will be seen as simpletons following social media Influencers with just as much belief as those following the new world of advertising did generations before. How are we manipulated? The means of corruption depend on us not understanding the means of delivery so we are oblivious to its concealed intent. We are always two or more steps behind in our mental advancement so we’re easily swayed by clever research into our psychologies of mass thought control applied by politicians and capitalism. Hedonism proliferated after the Pill gained acceptance promoted as benign family planning. We fell into the allure of some ideal world of teenage years, multiple relationships, long courtships, and a new generation of needs to supply these new lifestyle ideologies. In fact what we fell for was a life full of wants that only served capitalism as they provided a new lifestyle that sucked the money out of the young. We were sold illusions of ideal happiness but as time moved forward happiness decreased with the plethora of wants we were bombarded with. As globalism appears to be collapsing and democracy is being revealed as fit for the few but unrepresentative of the many the world of Orwell seems to come into vivid form. It’s frightening to see what could happen. Huxley’s world gives the anaesthetic for Orwell’s world to creep into our lives. Capitalism has exceeded its parameters for improving our lives. It’s seized the basic needs and commercialised then into wants in a society where only the better off have any chance. Perhaps capitalism needs taming with a dose of communism, socialism, realism, and democracy. Controls over needs to ensure they’re available to all. The free market only benefits the few and sadly many political movements in our Western world seem addicted to it and gaining popularity as they deceive narcissistic youth into believing they’ll benefit from a new order in democracy. It’s all lies carefully polished by product marketing through advertising. Focus groups to give mass appeal. Nothing revolutionary. Just shrink wrapped packaged democracy in the supermarket of politics. We’re sleep walking into something we may not like and can’t see because we lost the power of thought.

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TheSideband4 hours ago

During my college education, I took a course upon Science Fiction. It was thought that it would make us better engineers( it was a mechanical engineering course). I read 1984, Brave New World, Farenhite 451,Day of the Triffids, Earth Abides & Clockwork Orange. These Distopian novels prepared me for the 21st century. Almost as important (to me) as maths & physics!

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Alexander3 days ago

Brave New World turned out to be a far better prediction when it comes to the Western world. The only thing they both got wrong? That the surveillance state would be created by private corporations and entirely supported and paid for with glee by the citizenry. The proliferation of cell phones with video cameras coupled with social media has created a police state the likes of which past authors could never have even dreamt of.

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Coldstreamer9572 days ago

Despite, Orwell’s obvious narrative warning us of what’s to come. The left are using his writings as an instruction manual.

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Howard Smith26 minutes ago (edited)

They were both right. First comes slavery to our own lusts and desires, where we are given everything we want, and then, when we are so deeply addicted to our own desires that we can’t imagine life any other way, out come the chains. It’s like what pimps do–first get the girls hooked on drugs that make them feel good, then use that to make them do whatever you want them to. We are in the addict stage, where everyone has a God-given right to have or do anything they want. The chains are already being forged. Edited for spelling–damn autocorrect

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zod dammit11 hours ago

Freedom dies, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a resounding REEEEEEEEE!

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PaganSmurf12 hours ago (edited)

i find it ironic, that in the US, the right wants a collectivist white nationalist theocratic totalitarianism while the left wants democratic socialism. orwell was not far off at all

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Robert Weekes3 days ago

Wow I had no idea George Orwell was a socialist. “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”

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T B10 hours ago (edited)

If you can convince free people that they are not free, you have have already enslaved them.

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Fulgrim1 week ago

Capitalism in the US is a far cry from roots of Capitalism. I do high suggest reading Ayn Rand view of Capitalism and reading the story about Elizabeth J. Phillips th woman that created the Monopoly board game. Because by doing so you will quickly realize that Capitalism in the US is a perverted version of true Capitalism. You will also see that several things that both Rand and Elizabeth warned against have already come to pass. Because what is happening is a combination of both Orwell and Huxley fears.

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Sam Choy1 day ago

capitalism is just in our DNA get over it it’s what works

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corrion11 day ago

nationalism is what created every nation on earth and is the natural order

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Joe Turner1 day ago

I found the book a bit of a struggle. The movies, although good by degree, are still quite monochrome. I think Terry Gilliams Brazil kind of brings it up to date. While obviously paying homage to its forbear, it addresses the Englishness of AirStrip One while at the same time scaring the willies out of you with its casual authoritarianism. Brazil has too many facets to mention here. I recommend it.

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Nnyboy641 day ago

I feel like at this point we can safely say that Huxley was closer than Orwell.

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Kyle J Dahl1 week ago

All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. This nonconformist has realized just by discussing this subject of 1984, we are changing the course of history.

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Etienne Copus1 day ago (edited)

You forgot one very important point, who was George Orwell before he wrote books? His name was Eric Blair,as a young man he worked for a department of the British Government in the 1930′s, he was so disgusted by the propaganda the British government used against it’s own people,that he resigned in disgust and started writing books under the alias of George Orwell, he was labeled a communist and a traitor and his books were listed as fiction in the hope that people would not take him seriously, sadly as we now know only too well his nightmare predictions are becoming truer each day,and his books should be reclassified to non fiction.

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OutnBacker23 hours ago

Both Huxley and Orwell were correct: In some parts of the world, brutal authoritarianism reigns. In other parts, hedonism reigns. Both systems enslave the masses and may, someday, come into conflict with each other, as did Nazism and Communism in WWII.

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andtam0083 days ago

‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery.’ The best description of the USA.

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Anti Law1 day ago

Money printed. Here, use this as money. We can tax and control you! We print money, we don’t need to tax you, but we have to control you!

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Despair1 year ago

everyone is equal, some more so than others

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Lee Francis1 day ago (edited)

Literally the left of today, fascists. And dont get me started on Google.

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Johnny West2 weeks ago

Equality, Diversity, and Tolerance = Social Decay.

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LUCA BRASI3 days ago

A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean ~ Will Durant At it’s cradle, religion stands & philosophy accompanies it to the grave.

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Slick Andrews1 day ago (edited)

Just my opinion, but I’ve got to say that I believe that the World as a whole, is a total Shit Show today. Orwell was right about everything, except he missed it on one point- he predicted that The Government would spend vast sums on equipment and technology to watch our every move… Unfortunately, us dummies seemingly GLADLY PAY exorbitant amounts each month, OURSELVES, for that “privilege”. As far as the Hedonism point… Well, when ya have people killing themselves and others on the road because they can’t put their dee-vice down for 15 minutes at a time, because they’re worried that they’re going to miss something, and then there’s the 3, 4, 5, 6 year olds “coming out”… And of course things like Law Forcement Uh-Fishills beating the snot out of little old people, because they didn’t feel like they were being “respected”…. Well…. Yeah. It’s a real Shit Show. And believe it! It’s all planned by The True Powers That Be… (They, Them, whatever you wanna call IT) And here’s something for all us spineless Sheeple to look out for… 5G. Nope, it’s not gonna be pretty, regardless of what the Tech Geeks tell ya. It’s NOT here for our “convenience”…. But we’ll realize that as soon as men start going sterile, left and right… And women start losing children in the womb. And don’t let that Democrat/Republican thing fool you anymore. It truly surprises me that NOBODY “gets” that it’s just a smoke n mirror tactic that THEY use, to keep us idiots fighting amongst ourselves. We’re screwed. But, that’s just my 2 cents.

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Dan Kole1 year ago

The novel 1984 was required reading in my high school. Liberty and freedom were concepts very dear to me. Mob rule and socialism scared the hell out of me after reading the book. Socialism always sounds great to the masses. But somebody still has to be in charge. There lies the rub. Todays SJW think they will save the world. Ban speech, ban thought, ban counter arguments, ban websites. Somebody gets screwed. Time changes things around. Your on the right side today kids but another mob is right around the corner.

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Robert Cathcart21 hours ago

All of us know or at least realize that ”our” governments and their stooge institutions tap and record all our voice and data in what can only be described as the most gross violation of privacy imaginable but there is a certain beauty to it for it means you are now in control because the slimebuckets will only get to know WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO KNOW!!.

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Nick00219 hours ago (edited)

The Earth is flat. Aliens are visiting us. We never landed on the Moon. The worlds changing climate will lead to our extinction. One of these is true.. What do you think?

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Jeje Wa2 days ago (edited)

Well two ideologies from China and Islam are well on the way to make 1984 a reality. Yes as we have become more in search of materialistic aims, we have become weak be and like the Roman empire we are doomed!

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Giojacy Cadalzo6 months ago (edited)

This is how freedom dies: 1.Fear of an external threat. 2.Cult of Personality. Lesson: Do not let your fears control you. Control them, and you will be forever free.

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The Green Man 72 days ago

Excellent video! I’m glad I happened upon your page! I’m looking forward to more videos!!!

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Joe Norris3 days ago

Now in 2019, the collectivism is apparent on the democrat leftest agenda and pushes towards socialism and communism are in the open and big tech is big brother!

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Rachel Hannah2 days ago

Both men were correct, and the truth is evident if you look at western society under its skirt.

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Gery A1 week ago

We all know how freedom dies: “With thunderous applause” and a “Safe and SECURE society”.

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Little T-rex3 days ago

This isn’t heaven, no system will work perfectly. Power corrupts so there must be checks, balances ,,,accountability, or not and we just watch it fall apart

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Anony Mouse1 day ago

Everything is happening NOW! How could he know already then?

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mmclaugh0820 hours ago

If you haven’t yet, read Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ Far more in depth example of the processes involved in convincing people how the state will take care of everything, and you. Like ’1984′ it is fictional, however, her book was written based on empirical experience. It’s been the ‘most important book to read’ list at least five times since published in 1957. Sold over 7,000,000 copies, including record sales in 2009 (any guesses why?).

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Paul F2 days ago

One Barack Insane Obummer was a miserable, black jackal who never became a totalitarian dictator, but by Jove! he would have liked to be if he could have rigged the political process MORE than he did.

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TheManWithNoName1 year ago

This channel is such a gem.

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Leigh Foulkes23 hours ago

I do agree with everything you say but we clearly don’t live in a capitalist society (corporate monopolies destroyed that) and we live in a Oligarchy fascist society. Freedom is always a promise you will be given but your leaders always take and never give.

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simple man1 day ago

Maga is collectivism trump is the 1% turning into collectivism just like the 1% want.

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Van Tallian1 week ago

Yes it’s very difficult to understand if you’re not asking the right questions. Government is slavery. No matter what form it’s disguised as.

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Mike C1 day ago

Freedom dies when you elect #RepugliKLANS. Especially Donald #DraftDodger Trump

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Flaco Alvarez3 days ago

The gulag archipelago is our future read it while you have a chance if we fight and die maybe we can still save our constitutional republic

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Umh Chud3 days ago

freedom dies through complacency toward massa’ chains. read the comments (^ and v)

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Carleen Nicholson43 minutes ago

Huxley, on some points, is right. SCARY!!

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liam McDonough15 hours ago

Seems as if they were both correct. Books are being burnt, but noone cares because they dont read anymore.

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paul sawczyc1 year ago

All you have to do is control information.

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Meownold J. Trump8 months ago

I think Huxley had it down. We are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

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Castle Bravo2 days ago

Hedonism: Read Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451″.

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Mike Ries3 days ago (edited)

Socialism sounds great when you’re dirt poor. Everyone just share a little for me. Supply-side socialism. How about labor-side where everyone shares the load (Except the pigs and dogs)? Let’s represent labor as a horse named Boxer. What happened to Boxer in Animal Farm again? (Worked to death) As a laborer socialism sounds terrifying.

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Arthur Zettel2 days ago

The Democrats seem to be using both books as a guide.. But that is only my independent observation…

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Guy Reece4 days ago

The carrot and the stick. Brave New world is the carrot, 1984 is the stick.

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J. Philip Jimenez14 hours ago

Orwell and Huxley were both correct. Certainly, the oligarchy demonstrates a keen awareness of our susceptibility to manipulation through pleasure. But it is also true that physical coercion is alive and well and even on the increase. Bourgeois Americans are largely shielded from the recognition of this second truth, but this is by design and will only permit its encroachment.

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Edward Walker1 day ago

THAT was a real eye opener for me.

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Don Taylor3 days ago

Orwellian doublespeak is already here. A couple of examples: 1) I was born in Truman’s administration and I don’t even remember when the War Department became the Department of Defense – defense apparently meaning invasions, air strikes and missile strikes. 2) We call a country a democracy if American corporations find it user-friendly. If a country takes care of its own and doesn’t surrender its resources to exploitation it’s not a democracy.

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Happy Camper2 days ago

Google is building a technology utopia in Toronto. 🥀

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Tuatha Dé Danann. Bres22 hours ago

Sodom… the key to slavery of man.

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Tamian San6 days ago

Orwell is correct 100% , consumption era is decadence period.

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Tom_E Calm_73 days ago

You want a real wake up call? Any other random video on “Trending” has at least 2M views. This has less than 1/2 a Million. THIS is why our doom is inevitable as long as we continue to ALLOW it.

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John Chambers1 day ago

The problem is not with capitalism or market economies per se, but rather crony capitalism where moguls control state economic policies, or on the other extreme, fascism where the state controls the capital and economic policies. Also, Orwell was definitely not a leftist; he despised the four legs good, two legs bad, mob.

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CapAnson123451 week ago

Orwell warned us. Did we listen?

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David Craig1 day ago

I would consider Jefferson’s(?) phrase that a little revolution every 50 years or so may be necessary…the common flaw with all the isms, is that people will always come up with ways to improve our lives and they will always be criminals as far as the status quo is concerned. Others will different on what is or is not an improvement, and even when sharing a common goal, the route to that goal can vary widely based on perception.

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buzzclick5003 days ago

“Well, we just think that you shouldn’t…..” And thus begins the destruction of all things good.

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Michael Desaulniers1 day ago

Let’s not forget Animal Farm. Pigs enrich their lives by lies and changing history

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SunHead18 hours ago

In todays society, we need everything NOW, a new phone, better car, new video game, next day delivery, and all truth realy is drowned in a sea of irrelevance. They warned us but we couldn’t care less to listen. This behaviour is consuming us and the earth whole.

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stardust dragon2 days ago

The totalitarians are the democrat party now!!

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Marc Alcober5 days ago

I don’t have my freedom. Neither will they. And most of them will see it in the form of economic devastation as you’re seeing now.

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Eugene. L1 year ago

Nothing excites me more on youtube than to see an upload from AoI!

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patti jesinoski1 hour ago

Orwell was part of new world order

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Valerie Price1 day ago

Orwell’s austerity ideology is simply a restatement of the Greek and Roman philosophies used to justify slavery, torture, public execution, etc. Famous authors are famous because they were promoted by the central bankers to write entertaining propaganda couched in terms that played upon people’s fears, in order to herd them unwittingly into conflicting political camps. Divide and conquer. BOTH Huxley’s and Orwell’s offered visions of future reality have been established in the US; the society coerced by force, and the society drugged into stupor. In other countries, different books, culturally adapted propaganda; different words, different fear mongering, different religions have been used to enslave people into unfulfilling lives, living to work instead of working to live. Happiness is the thinnest slice, but happiness is important, because we only live once, and we are old for a long time. If people fail to pursue happiness early in their lives, building a future that will satisfy human needs and desires, when we are old, we reap what we’ve sewn; bitterness, division, unhappiness, anger and hatred. We get back from the young what we send out to them. Western European rulers in ancient Greece and Rome preached self-deprivation as something to be admired, claiming that misery, hunger, and discomfort would make people tough. They forced their slaves to eat blood soup, because blood was cheaper than meat and fish. It was all about their bottom line. Meanwhile, the nobility, religious leaders, and merchants lived fabulously luxurious lives. Common people fell for it, and just like people today, they took pride in their degradation. Eastern philosophy is where the idea of “the pursuit of happiness” comes from. The Greeks used the exotic luxury Persian tribes enjoyed to engender hatred in for Persians, and the Greeks invaded time after time, to steal Persian comforts and treasures to live even more luxurious lives. If there is one thing wealthy indo-European power brokers know, it’s that austerity, poverty, hunger, and stress are for the common man, NOT for the rich. The rich wear clothes made of soft natural fabric, cotton, linen, silk, and furs. They travel to beautiful places, and they live in luxury at home. They fear prosperity in the world, because happy, prosperous, comfortable people are not easily manipulated. Prosperity would reduce the power of the global elite bankers to almost nothing. As it is, there is no chance for average children to have happy lives. Their future has already been decided by foreign based, multinational central bankers.

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Punch Drunk Savage2 days ago

In the light of Trump’s continued dalliances with Putin, Jung Un and other dictators, do you think we’re closer to a totalitarian dictatorship?

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whiterthan hitler2 days ago

I think as soon as you think about freedom is when you become the total opposite of free.

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puck hard12 hours ago

I remember when 1984 was pure fiction. Kill me now.

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Aaron Shields3 days ago

I don’t think Orwell anticipated the depth of Oligarchic Collectivism thanks to globalization and how it would become synonymous with Capitalism. Our examples of capitalism seem to always lead to monopoly , to the concentration of economic power, the only thing keeping Capitalism alive is a military industrial complex that requires it to function. So there is a complicit relationship between the security states of nations and corporate power, NEITHER of which want to give up control to the people ( democratic socialism). Unfortunately, I think Orwell and Huxley were both right.

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john douglas2 days ago

Vote democrat , then we will see 1984

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Darin Fry2 days ago

Socialism is socialism, whether it be the Soviet union, China, n Korea, Venezuela, or “democratic socialism”. Its always failed and it always will. It destroys the will and spirit of people

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Yeah Yeah1 year ago

Coming from state capitalist China, I think collectivism cannot be maintained. As long as the market economy takes place, people become more and more indifferent to the goal of the nation and more interested in their own well-being in their day to day life.

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Bob Smithers3 days ago

Concise. To the Point. Or I shall say, Points. Obvious Societal Moral Degeneration. …and the ability to Critically Think.

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Bob Ravenscraft1 day ago

He was right taking a little longer

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Doug Billman2 days ago

Can’t lose something you never had, to begin with……..

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Elijah Ford3 days ago

Videos I watched: Tenrose, Spongebob, 1984. Everything is depressinh these days.

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libertyn jeopardy3 days ago

They were both right to some degree but without the Catholic Church and it’s founder it will end.

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Paul Phelan7 hours ago

Who cares..at the end of the day.. what does it matter..he is dead..may or may not be right.and even if he was 100 % right ..who would listen..

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White Rook2 days ago

Ideas enslave people faster when they think they you are wrong and they are right for the wrong reasons. Freedom has different meanings to different people but when you think my idea is wrong and you are right then you have to correct me you are wrong.

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PaulaK Stamps13 hours ago

DNC backs UN global socialism. Aka wil not happen in the US TRUMP2020 !

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Shans bo17 hours ago

IMO Huxley was right.

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5150psych10 hours ago

Almost and the sheeple still sleep!

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Conan Duke18 hours ago

This video is nothing but tripe propaganda and jingoistic ‘Red Scare’ nonsense.

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forestsoceansmusic1 day ago

We’ve never had freedom, we’ve only been moving haphazardly closer to it. How do you guarantee freedom? By forbidding ANYONE to ‘own’ or ‘earn’ significantly more than anyone else. As long as there are sizeable gaps in individual wealth, there will always be the temptation to: scam, deceive, thieve, assault, embezzle, exploit, murder, and organise mass-murders (“wars”). Great individual wealth = great individual power, which is inherently anti-democratic. Real socialism will initially be a very strong government, needed to enforce equal wage-rates (ALL jobs, except for some like Advertising, contribute equally to society), and to prevent capitalist restoration, or, the degeneration of the revolution into State-capitalism (as happened in Russia, and all of its ‘daughter’ states). Freedom can only be guaranteed by ensuring that no individuals can create any kind of monopoly in property, and the first step in that is to nationalise all key industries like: energy, utilities, banking, housing, mass-transit, mass-communications, etc. Real socialism is also a MERIT-based society, NOT having Politically-Correct favouritism like what Stalin initiated.

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balthiers girl7 months ago (edited)

UK right now and it’s Tory government

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justmadeit22 days ago

I have heard it said that the modern world is a mixture between Orwells 1984 and Huxleys Brave New World.

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mysirius100015 hours ago

Mere generalities here! Let’s put the blame on our dystopian existence where it belongs; that is, the zionist jew and his unthoughtful lackeys who are corrupting humanity.

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alvinpetrovitch132 days ago

What if Orwell was writing his vision of s successful future when he wrote 1984? What if that’s the world he wanted us to live in? He warned us it was coming, but maybe that was more of a courtesy than anything else. He was simply saying, ‘if you continue down this path, you’ll play right into my hands.’

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SoonKickedOff1 year ago

Too late. He tried to warn us.

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Shawn Bradley4 hours ago

Nothing remains to be seen. I have seen it for many years now creeping in like a cancer. Movies like the minority report. You have to think it first in order to write a script about it. The building blocks were put in place many years ago.

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harry fare3 days ago (edited)

When Netanyahu of Israel and Bolton and Pompeo Say they want peace that means they want war … you just flip everything they say 180. 😎

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Daniel Cunningham2 days ago

Individual FREEDOM is what this country was founded on. Anything else is DICTATORIAL!

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Curtis Balk1 day ago

“Adlos Huxley”

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Antipodean331 day ago

Don’t worry about it too much people, this whole fiat currency ponzi scheme is about to run it’s course, then we will have chaos. I’m of the mind that this will be a good thing, the human herd needs to be thinned of the useless, the dangerous and the parasitic. I personally can’t wait for the day where only the wise and strong will survive

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Gary Murgatroyd4 days ago

Maybe he was simply told by the powers that be. it was coming !

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DevilTrigger7 months ago

Completely disagree with the idea that consumeristic liberal nations are not more vulnerable to tyranny. Thats only because you see Tyrants only in the classical sense. Hitler or Stalin. But in fact there is an oligarchical tyranny of the market, lobbies, financial interests. Corporations, globalists, and their lackeys run liberal democracies and individuals, addicted to consumption, do not have the strength to challenge anything.

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Mike W6 days ago

People are taking the wrong perspective from this book. This book doesn’t portray the way the future would be for you in this society. It explains how it would be for people like JFK, Chris Cornell, heath ledger, Eric bolling, George Carlin ect. People who were in the party changing minds. The book spends little time on the proletariat which is us but to say that we go about our lives with little notice..

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TheMightyWill1 year ago

With thunderous applause

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I eat lefties 4 breakfast4 days ago

The framework for INGSOC is in place but they are being very careful how it is implemented. Room 101 exists in the form of being called racist or accused of something and dragged through social media.

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Tommy O Donovan5 months ago

“It isn’t Good VS Evil….it’s Good VS GOOD.” That’s how the good socialists (Ger) and the even Goodlyer Communists (USSR/China/Veit/Camb…) only had to kill 200m-400m(?) of their own citizens, a small price to pay for utopia ever-after.

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Brian Shott3 hours ago

This is good. It could also be said that we are all propagandists now, producing our own media memes without compulsion. A million Big Brothers, or little brothers, or something, but not one coordinated one. But because we propagandize for so many different tribal positions, perhaps collectivism is still kept at bay?

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Vincent Ye4 hours ago

It happens in China now!

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