The Dystopian World of 1984 Explained
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Seriously go read the book though
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One of the scariest part of the book for me was when one of the characters describes how people can never know about freedom or liberty if those concepts and words dont exist.
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“You can say whatever you want when you raise generations to worship you.” Very important statement.
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I think the scariest part is by far newspeak. Eliminating anti-party thoughts by restricting and eliminating freethinking capability in itself
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Fun Fact: 1984 was an early inspiration for Half-Life 2, and some elements of 1984 are still present in the game as well. Like cities just referred as City XX, like with City 17. And most of the citizens barely remember their past before the Combine invaded earth.
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Orwell: Publishes 1984 "Yo, guys, totalitarianism is bad. Read this book, it'll scare you shitless." Me: "Oh my god, this is the most terrifying book I've ever read in my entire life!" Politicians: "Ooh! Look, an instruction manual!"
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“The Obliteration of Self” Best emo band name
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Just finished the book today and it’s honestly soul crushing
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Given recent history and the way "society" is headed, I think more people need to revive this old classic.
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Ingsoc: "Eurasia has always been our greatest ally against the evil East Asia in the war against Eurasia with our great ally East Asia."
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1984 wasn't necessarily the actual year. It's just Winton's best guess as to the year.
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One thing I wish had been in the video is that all of this backstory could be completely made up considering how untrustworthy Oceania is. The characters don’t even know for sure that the year is 1984. The deuteragonist Julia didn’t even think the war was real and believed that Ingsoc only actually controlled England (and just England, not even the entire former UK), with the rest of the world at peace and relatively better off. By the end, the novel neither confirms nor denies her suspicions.
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I had to read Animal Farm in eighth grade and there are some deep themes even in that book. Since then I heard more about George Orwell and 1984, so I finally decided to read it, and am more amazed every day how prophetic it actually is.
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INGSOC: "Reality can be whatever i want"
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Forget vampires, zombies, werewolves, xenocidal aliens or cosmic horrors; 1984 is the most bone-chilling and terrifying piece of fiction I have ever interacted with in my whole life.
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A few years ago I was playing video games and remembered a Subway ad. A bit later I was scrolling a bit through youtube and it was on my recommended. I told my mom how funny it was and said jokingly: "Big Brother is watching you." Later I was scrolling through youtube again and there was the ad again but also with this video right above it...
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As someone with pretty bad memory and self doubt issues, the idea that at any time the government could just completely change what is true and what is false and no one would even acknowledge that anything changed at all is terrifying to me. Because I could totally see myself falling for that.
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At 2:07 it’s mentioned that a town in England called Colchester was nuked, but London was not. As someone who lives in Colchester I can confirm that we got nuked because Colchester is a military garrison town and so would probably hold some strategic advantage to destroy. Not important or relevant information but I thought it would be interesting for people to know :)
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Ingsoc is the government equivalent to the "it has always been" meme
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Fun fact: Kim Jong Un was born in the year 1984
