1984

Orwell's 1984 did come out in 1949.

It did not come out until 49.

That is the lesser understood concept of 1984 written by George Orwell is that truth will be decided by whoever's boot is on the other person's neck.

You cannot be free if you do not have privacy. You cannot be free if the government knows everything that you are thinking, everything you're writing.

And he demonstrates that there's this incredibly powerful quote and I'm going to paraphrase it, I'm sure Blake can get it up rather quickly which is the best way to keep something from Big Brother is to not think it in the first place. To not even think it.

You see in the movie, in the book 1984 and the movie is actually terrible but in the book 1984 you see that there's your own ability to consciousness to have your own personal life to flourish. It deteriorates if the government can look over your shoulder and see everything you are doing especially during a period of time where political dissidents are thrown into jail or attempt to be thrown into jail.

It's where like, you know, you saw something and you can't find it because it got memory hold and I'm like looking through Google, where is this thing? Where is this thing? Where is this?

If you know in 1984, they throw a news article down to the incinerator. It disappears as if it never happened.

In the great, the legendary 1984 book by George Orwell, he demonstrated this very well, you cannot be free if you don't have privacy.

I was the bilingual kid who considered himself very, very deep. You know, the kind of kid who read 1984 in 1984 without a hint of irony.

1984 became an even worse year, and all was not quiet on the Western Front.

That means that last month we talked about 1984.

Tonight, we are discussing George Orwell's famous dystopian novel, 1984.

I'm pumped to hang out and discuss Orwell with you tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central. Be there or be square.

January's book of choice is George Orwell's fantastic dystopian novel, 1984.

once a month for obvious reasons, Orwell's infamous 1984 seemed like the perfect place to start.

Orwell's infamous 1984 seemed like the perfect place to start.

I cannot wait to hang out with you and discuss Orwell this Thursday, January 20th, 8 PM Eastern 7 PM Central.

This month's book is George Orwell's 1984. I have a lot to say about 1984.

Not only will the book club hold you accountable for your reading this year so that you will get a lot done. I mean, I'm telling you, I have the book list because I made it. Let me tell you, if you stick with us, you are going to be so much better read by the end of this year.

This month's book is George Orwell's 1984.

I have a lot to say about 1984. I'm sure you will too.

The code is 1984 because that's the first book of our new book club.

This month's book, the first book, 1984 by George Orwell.

Grab a copy of 1984 by George Orwell to join us next Thursday, January 20th, 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central.

This month book, 1984 by George Orwell. So if you want to read that with me, it's not too late to sign up.

And we'll go through 1984 by Orwell together.

double think lies at the very heart of the regime since the essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.

To deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies. All this is indispensably necessary.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

That is the description of unpersoning, as in George Orwell's 1984.

And they say that they've been re-reading 1984 and is it not so very concerning how similar the structures that seem to be being built currently are to the structures and the procedures of this fictional book.

1984 is a perfect description of Soviet Russia and of course the left always works the same way it has to work the same way if you don't have you know the thing about it is there actually is a moral order there actually is moral truth and spiritual truths and in order to erase these things you have to erase every form of logic and information that can be available to people.

that's 1984, that's exactly what we're talking about when you talk about cancel culture that is 1984, I wish people would read it because it is an absolute exact and precise case study of this kind of tyranny.

I reference George Orwell's 1984, and I don't know if you've ever read it, but they talk about a country, Oceana, and how they had the language police and would unperson people.

J.D. Vance was born in the year 1984, which for viewers, the few viewers who don't know, was the title of a very ominous book by George Orwell about the dangers of autocracy and regimentation.

Republicans also pushed legislation that would have banned books like Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, or George Orwell's 1984, or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Republicans also pushed legislation that would have banned books like Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings or George Orwell's 1984 or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

But he said alongside that vision, there's this other dystopian vision, the technology, which is the eldest Huxley vision of Brave New World in which control is not established by banning books but by creating a world of so much amusing ourselves to death and the world.

the Edmonton Public School Board... decided to ban 1984, The Godfather, Jaws, and so on, in addition to The Handmaid's Tale.

One is that 1984 is one of about three books that the average American has actually read all the way through.

Well, there's two reasons. One is that 1984 is one of about three books that the average American has actually read all the way through. The other two are Harry Potter books.

We're talking books like 1984 by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and many more.

tonight's book selection is Orwell's famous 1984, quite a timely and topical for his book club each month.

I see more of our current condition in Animal Farm even than I see in 1984.

the way that people reference 1984 all the time.

Animal Farm, which by the way, I think if we're looking for an Orwell comparison and everyone goes to 1984 and there's a lot, there's certainly a lot that's analogous there, many comparisons...

You know, when people use the word Orwellian these days, they're normally referring to the book 1984 which was no doubt prophetic in many ways. But a book that seems even more relevant to our time is Orwell's Animal Farm, his allegorical satire of communism.

let me read this from 1984. George Orwell, of course, and here's a relevant passage says every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue in street building has been renamed, every date has been altered and the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

It's kind of like the government funding an adaptation of 1984 - it just doesn't make sense.

the details about MK-ULTRA do take a page right out of George Orwell's novel.

I mean I don't know like it's just QED it is we are living in some weird 1984 reality as far as like how courts are describing what they are doing with the law.

It's some stuff straight out of 1984.

Republicans are calling it orwellian and comparing it to the ministry of truth in the novel 1984.

I read this book every time I get really, really depressed.

But in this case, you know, I was really thinking about the, the uh, sort of effortless way in which we switched from being completely enraged about the unvaccinated to feeling uh, to moving all those emotions over toward to the Russians.

...what that's done to the national character and how similar that is to what Orwell was describing in 1984, where essentially he was saying that the ritualistic uh, expressions of anger were designed to sort of keep people constantly in the present and to make them forget the past in any context that might be important to remember.

I read this book every time I get really, really depressed.

But in this case, you know, I was really thinking about the, the sort of effortless way in which we switched from being completely enraged about the unvaccinated to feeling, uh, to moving all those emotions over toward to the Russians... and about the succession of panics that we've had in the news in the last five, five or six years especially and what that's done to the national character and how similar that is to what Orwell was describing in 1984, where essentially he was saying that the ritualistic, uh, expressions of anger were designed to sort of keep people constantly in the present and to make them forget the past in any context that might be important to remember.

republicans are calling it orwellian and comparing it to the ministry of truth in the novel 1984

I read this book every time I get really, really depressed.

...we switched from being completely enraged about the unvaccinated to feeling...to moving all those emotions over toward the Russians...

...the ritualistic expressions of anger were designed to sort of keep people constantly in the present and to make them forget the past in any context that might be important to remember...

Oh my God. And by 1984, all of this shit that they're saying in the book, which really is happening now. He just, he was a little too early.

Is this some like sort of like 1984 type of shit like you know 1984 was humans on humans.

1984 type shit like you know, 1984 was humans on humans. Okay, we'll see

It's just like that Big brother shit and it's just that book. It's literally going to be well if you're not doing anything wrong

George Orwell said serious sport has nothing to do with fair play It's a bound up. It's bound up with hatred jealousy, boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasures pleasures and witnessing violence In other words, it's war minus the shooting exactly now Why the fuck would you bring a child to that?

Even though it's fiction. That's my Bible cuz I'm a psycho don't fucking listen to me.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It's bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it's war minus the shooting, exactly.

When was George Orwell alive? A long fucking time ago. I don't know when he was alive. When did he write 1984? He didn't write it in 83. I know that he wrote like the 30s, didn't he?

serious sport has nothing to do with fair play It's a bound up. It's bound up with hatred jealousy Boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasures pleasures and witnessing violence In other words, it's war minus the shooting exactly now

When did he write 1984? He didn't write it in 83. I know that he wrote like the 30s, didn't he?

Even though it's fiction, that's my Bible cuz I'm a psycho don't fucking listen to me.

Is this some like sort of like 1984 type of shit like you know 1984 was humans on humans

When did he write 1984? He didn't write it in 83. I know that he wrote like the 30s, didn't he?

Even though it's fiction, that's my Bible cuz I'm a psycho don't fucking listen to me.

George Orwell said serious sport has nothing to do with fair play It's a bound up. It's bound up with hatred jealousy Boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasures pleasures and witnessing violence In other words, it's war minus the shooting exactly now.

Why the fuck would you bring a child to that?

Like an almost unbelievably starstudded production of George Orwell's 1984, which both honors and reinvigorates the terrifying classic.

I don't know if you've read 1984. Highly recommend the read. It's like 100 pages long.

And dude, the forever wars across the world, you're just fighting a new enemy. We had ISIS. Now we have ISIS-K. Now we're fighting the Taliban. Now we're fighting the Russians. Now we're fighting who God knows what. But there's always some enemy, foreign enemy.

Well, I've read Brave New World too. Not the script of the new Captain America movie. But that kind of gives you the other half of the picture where we're just... You know, we're dopamine freaks. We're looking for our next high and just going day to day. You know, looking for Soma.

Two of the great dystopian works of the 20th century were Huxley's Brave New World which is actually this what you're just describing and the other of course is Orwell and interestingly it's you know if at that time I thought we may go this way or we may go that way but it never occurred to me that we would actually go both ways so we're now getting a hybrid of Huxley and Orwell so Orwell says that the police state is a boot stamping on a human face right and we have some of that and this is what I do in the film I want the ordinary citizen to see that because Americans have a great difficulty getting their heads around the fact that that could happen here but the Huxley part of it is another way a police state lulls a citizen into sort of complacency it's like we'll give you manufactured experience now manufactured experience is not real experience in the sense that it's not the real thing I mean living your life with a real woman and going through all that has a texture and complexity that an E girl friend or even a porn video cannot supply but Tim's point is what if you don't know that what if you think that this porn experience is actually sexual experience this is romantic experience I've got a girlfriend why would I want a real one this one never complains this is what's going on you're forgetting one name as well or just or well or Huxley.

George Orwell talks about this in 1984 you need these people to be programmable the the value of a loyal servant is what lie will you swallow the value of the loyal servitude of the left the Borg is will you say that two plus two equals five

Go read 1984. I know one of these books. We're at the point of reeducation. We've been here for some time.

1984 teaches us that it doesn't matter what the truth is what matters is what's on the public record

That's a quote from 1984. It's one of my favorite books.

He was like, I need a summary of this book. 1984? So I don't have to read it. How about Cliff?

And he was, you know, quoting Orwell from 1984 and talking about Minnesotans needing to hold the line on democracy and to hold the line on decency and accountability.

He was, you know, quoting Orwell from 1984 and talking about Minnesotans needing to hold the line on democracy and to hold the line on decency and accountability.

George Orwell is spinning in his grave and laughing at the same time. 2 plus 2 doesn't equal 4. It equals 5 because we say it is.

2 plus 2 equals 5 because we say it is.

There's something that I know a lot of people listening read in 1984.

Which by the way was written in 1948 by Orwell.

George Orwell in 1984 talked about how facts could be altered.

Jim, read 1984.

I did. Yeah, George Orwell.

So I actually read 1984 in 1984. I was in eighth grade. I actually thought it was totally cool. Mr. Wall was our teacher and he assigned 1984 in 1984. We're all like, all right, that's that's kind of cool.

But but you remember the propaganda. We're at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia. This is the totalitarian government. They're always just saying we're at war with Eurasia. We've always been.