The Tucker Carlson Show

And everybody knew that everybody, you know, you and I were raised reading Orwell and Alex Huxley and, you know, Robert Heinlein and Alex Anderson, and all of these other books that were part of classical literature that was taught in every American classroom.

So there's this scene in Animal Farm, it's the last scene in the novel, the famous George Orwell novel, the one less referred to than 1984, but in some ways a lot better.

I think that a totalitarian novel like 1984 illustrates exactly what we're talking about.

Read the Gulag Archipelago. Read 1984. Read Brave New World.

I picked up the 75th anniversary edition of 1984, approved by the Orwell estate. It's the official edition.

He wasn't just extrapolating historical trends; he was giving us a worstcase scenario for group think over person think.

You can't have freedom if you don't have privacy. 1984, you may recall, is a story about a total lack of privacy and a totally omnipresent government. Totalitarianism begins with no privacy.

In Hillsdale College's free online course, Totalitarian Novels, Hillsdale President Larry Arnn teaches us lessons from classic novels like George Orwell's 1984 that are as relevant today as ever.

They speak of darkness and danger but totalitarian novels also give us hope, showing us how to defend our society from the horrors of tyranny. In Hillsdale College's free online course Totalitarian novels, Hillsdale president Larry Arn teaches us lessons from classic novels like George Orwell's 1984 that are as relevant today as ever.

George Orwell in the preface to Animal Farm wrote - actually it's 1984 - wrote an essay where he was essentially saying that overt totalitarianism of the kind that was taking place in the Soviet Union is repressive, but it's not nearly as effective as subtle repression.

1984 gets all the attention but Animal Farm is better.

If you're over 40, you probably were assigned the George Orwell novel 1984, not written in 1984, written in 1949 right after the Second World War, and it is famously a picture of the dystopian future where the state controls everything.

And if you can think back, the novel, not quite as widely assigned now. Your kids are probably not reading it. If you're under 40, you may not know exactly what it is, except it's like a synonym for the state being overbearing. Big brother is watching you.

But it's worth remembering what 1984 describes because it is so, so prescient. It does not describe a lot of physical repression by the state. What it does instead is spy on them. There are cameras everywhere in 1984.

And again, when this came out, it was impossible to imagine, say, the iPhone, which is listening to you at all times, or one of those seatback screens on Delta Airlines that's yelling at you without your permission about some credit card deal. No one reading 1984 when it first came out had any reference point for this level of surveillance.

So there's this scene in Animal Farm, it's the last scene in the novel, the famous George Orwell novel, the one less referred to than 1984, but in some ways a lot better. And there's this scene where the pigs and the men are playing cards at a table.

And in the final scene, the other animals are gathered outside the house, nose is pressed against the glass, and the pigs are sitting, basically partying with the men. And for a moment they become indistinguishable. You can't tell the pig from the man, they've melded into one.

George Orwell in the preface to Animal Farm wrote - actually it's 1984 - wrote an essay where he was essentially saying that overt totalitarianism of the kind that was taking place in the Soviet Union is repressive, but it's not nearly as effective as subtle repression.

It's a new film adaptation of George Orwell's amazing novel Animal Farm. 1984 gets all the attention, but Animal Farm is better.

The movie follows Lucky, a young pig whose curiosity encouraged guide viewers through the farm's rise and fall. We see hope, betrayal, and above all, the danger of totalitarian power.

the coolest movie we can imagine. It's a new film adaptation of George Orwell's amazing novel Animal Farm. 1984 gets all the attention but Animal Farm is better.

This is the last scene in Animal Farm where the farmers and the pigs are like getting together.

he wrote the book Enough Already which is about the war on terror from Jimmy Carter all the way through Donald Trump and he's currently writing a book on the war in Ukraine

He wrote the book Enough Already, which is about the book about the terror, the war on terror from Jimmy Carter all the way through Donald Trump.

and he's currently writing a book on the war in Ukraine, which I got an advanced copy of it's phenomenal.

Scott Horton, who's totally brilliant, you should have him on man he's a he was like Justin Ramondo's disciple just like he's antiwar.com and he's just like IQ off the charts he wrote the book Enough Already which is about the book about the terror the war on terror from Jimmy Carter all the way through Donald Trump and he's currently writing a book on the war in Ukraine which I got an advanced copy of it's phenomenal I can't wait to send this to you when it comes out it's so good it's called provoked

You've written a book on it, Enough Already.

His book Enough Already is the best book that's been written on the terror wars.

I would say ... And his book, The Grand Chessboard, is very well written and fundamentally wrong.

By Zbigniew Brzezinski. And many of you have probably read it called The Grand Chessboard. He could have called it the game of risk. It would have been a little bit more accurate. It was about how to make American dominance in the world, with a chapter about expanding NATO to Ukraine and Europe's eastward expansion. Very good book, good in that it's insightful, terrible book in that it's all wrong.

And what Brzezinski says in The Grand Chessboard is that if you can separate Ukraine from Russia, then Russia will never be a Eurasian superpower again.

And what he said was in his book, The Grand Chessboard in 1997, we should expand NATO eastward. We should expand Europe eastward.

Brzezinski spends a whole chapter, what will Russia do? He asked if Russia would ever align with China or Iran, concluding it wouldn't.

The End of Alzheimer's, which everyone should read. Dr. Dale Bredesen, many others who have shown that we can reverse the symptoms of...

The End of Alzheimer's, which everyone should read.

He wrote The End of Alzheimer's, which everyone should read. It's the most effective reversal protocol ever conducted.

Dale Bredesen has written a book called The End of Alzheimer's and documenting that we have to get to the root causes.

if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

if my people will repent, if my people will turn from their wicked ways, not the devil's people.

we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers and the rulers of spiritual darkness of this earth, of this world.

There are three books that built this nation, the Bible, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

what's your favorite book of the Bible? Which he says, with some confusion, well, the Bible may be unaware there are component books to it.

There's a great book on The Happiness Hypothesis.

Jonathan Haidt wrote a book, The Happiness Hypothesis.

I think there's a book, Jonathan Haidt wrote a book, The Happiness Hypothesis.

Read The Gulag Archipelago, read 1984, read Brave New World.

Read The Gulag Archipelago. Read 1984. Read Brave New World.

I recently read The Gulag Archipelago and Solzhenitsyn writes in there that the first concentration camps were invented by the Soviets.

I read that book, the Pastor Rick Warren book, Purpose Driven Life, because I saw him talking about his son taking his own life, and I saw the way that he spoke about that and how unabashed and unapologetic he was and how he was just in the pain of it without any sort of pride or...

Rick Warren, who wrote Purpose Driven Life, started listening to his podcasts. And boy, is he wise.

He sent me a video and then I see Rick Warren. I didn't know that Purpose Driven Life sold 30 million.

There's a great book called Blitzed about this, but Merck developed the precursor to Adderall in order to give to German soldiers.

there's a great book called Blitzed about this, but Merck developed the precursor to Adderall in order to give to German soldiers.

if you read the book Blitzed actually traces the history. Adderall was developed by Nazi Germany as a tool for Nazi soldiers to be more aggressive and now is prescribed widely along with SSRIs to kids.

I've got to play a little bit of this because I'd love to get your reaction. Here he is. J.D. Vance is a phony. He's fake. I mean, he first says that Donald Trump is like Hitler and now he's acting like he's Lincoln. I mean, the problem with J.D. Vance is he has no conviction, but I guess his running mate has 34. He claims to be from Eastern Kentucky, tries to write a book about it to profit off our people. And then he calls us lazy and this makes me angry, but it especially makes me angry about our people in Eastern Kentucky.

if you haven't watched Hillbilly Elegy or read the book Hillbilly Elegy he understands that it's an intuitive level ...

I bought Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. All three volumes. The single most boring treatment ever written.

I bought Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. All three volumes. The single most boring treatment ever written. And it's very well written though. I just kept reading and reading and reading...

we are ... evangelize this book, Good Energy, is that the reasons why Americans are getting sicker

I never do this because it feels so grubby and commercial, but in this case, I mean it. Good Energy. And that was Good Energy.

I actually think this book is gonna--I never say this, but I mean it--I think this book is gonna have a big effect on the course of the country, and the reason I think that is because you two are the perfect people to write it.

this book, Good Energy, is that the reasons why Americans are getting sicker every year are very simple.

the reasons why Americans are getting sicker every year are very simple. Americans want to be healthy. Americans do not want to die early. They do not want to see their kids with all these chronic health issues like autism and food allergies and obesity and prediabetes and 40% of teens with mental health issues.

this book is dedicated to her.

in the book is that dementia is on the same... It's a branch of the same tree as diabetes, as heart disease, as kidney disease, of even dying of COVID.

the book Chaos covered this in great detail for people who are curious about that.

the book Chaos covered this in great detail for people who are curious about that.

He meant to misquote a phrase in Genesis, but he couldn't even name the book.

He said, "Genesis12,3... He says God will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you."

Later Tucker added, "Genesis15 tells us the covenant with Abraham extended to his descendants," reinforcing his argument about a divine right to the land.

And everybody knew that everybody, you know, you and I were raised reading Orwell and Alex Huxley and, you know, Robert Heinlein and Alex Anderson, and all of these other books that were part of classical literature that was taught in every American classroom.

and then you have aldous huxley who wrote Brave New World in 32 his brother Julian Huxley was the head of the world eugenics society when that got a bad name for world war ii they changed the world transhumanist society he was the director general of unesco really ran the u.n and his brother before he died gave that famous berkeley speech it's an hour long and i've read his book Brave New World revisited that's non-fiction everybody should read it and he says no no no the world's not gonna be like orwell with the swat teams

There's a whole book in the Jewish Bible called Ecclesiastes that basically makes this point.

Is it Ecclesiastes? I think it is. By Solomon? By what? Ecclesiastes, the book. Yes, correct. ... It's Ecclesiastes 1. It literally opens up like a suicidal 17 year old goth. It's meaningless, meaningless, all that is meaningless.

It's like Lewis and the Screwtape Letters.

C.S. Lewis says in The Great Divorce, when you accept him, your whole life will have been heaven if you reject him.

I'm recommending read The Great Divorce. It's because they won't let go of their earthly identity.

the space something, Space Relations by Donald Barr

One of the books that he wrote is called Space Relations. And I've read the book... It's a pulpy kind of L. Ron Hubbard style science fiction book... It's not a good book.