Elan Martin, Harrison Koehli, Adam Daniels
Sott.netFri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Want to avoid the joycamps? Afraid of being unpersoned? Then be a goodthinker and watch
1984! There's a reason the term "Orwellian" is used so often today. From the news to politics, the novels and allegories of writer George Orwell help explain how and why the Big Lies are disseminated, and with good reason. Orwell grokked the true nature of totalitarianism, and how its pathological twisting of reality perception helps it achieve and maintain power. In the year 1984, and in recognition of the the work's importance, filmmaker Michael Radford adapted the famous novel to the big screen with resounding results. True to the spirit of Orwell's text, it stands on its own as bleak glimpse at a Britain under the grip of Soviet-style pathocracy.
This week on MindMatters, we discuss Radford's insightful re-telling of the book and what makes it utterly worth the time and effort to watch. We delve into what makes
1984 even better than we remember it and required viewing for those seeking to understand the societal and political developments unfolding before our eyes. Exceptionally quotable, we also review the many gems of the script and book that distill and deconstruct the thinking and intentions of what a full-blown and truly psychopathic political system looks and sounds like. Few books and films get so close to describing reality as well as
1984 does.
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Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of
MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Reader Comments
Best of the Web: Wall of Lies
Propaganda is not what it used to be. It is something far worse. In part because of the effectiveness of its action upon us, we have no idea when it is present, nor what it is doing to us. This..."The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." -HDT
It's apparently easy to control the weak and the desperate.
I know of some, actual truths. Thermodynamics and physics.
Cold does not exist.
Voltage is pressure and does not flow.
this is real and this is true. everywhere and for all people. (copy and paste to be sure)
Tell Me Something Good - YouTube
"Why should I care what 'most people' think? 'Most people' are assholes."
I suspect more than a few SoTT readers may share that sentiment on a variety of issues currently facing our world.....
&
remember
have fun!
'just a hand in the bush'.
OZZY OSBOURNE - "No More Tears" (Official Video) - YouTube
There was a massive campaign by the liberal establishment to censor any Trump support and to cancel his supporters. The campaign was led by Big Tech, Big Media, Big Business, and academia. The information technology revolution has allowed a small number of Big Tech companies to control most of the communication in this country. These companies all have the same liberal ideology and the power to censor all opposing views which means those promulgated by Trump and his supporters. This has the effect of being a modern Thought Police as opposing views are canceled through technology.
The basic ideology is that this country must be defined by open borders to bring in cheap foreign labor, outsourcing of jobs overseas to cheap foreign labor, and automation to replace American workers. Another element of this ideology is that the link between work and income must be cut for most of the country.
This is what supports the increasing call for a Universal Basic Income. Displaced workers are to be appeased by this and other types of welfare while elites of Silicon Valley and Wall Street reap the profits of Globalism. The propaganda departments of Globalism, which include Big Media and academia, similarly reap big profits from this new scheme. The role of the Democratic Party is to give political cover.
The elites could not wait for Trump to complete one more term but tried coup after coup to remove him before rigging the election that defeated him. They managed to make sure no one could ask for any voter ID and that signatures would not be required for absentee ballots. After Trump's lead was discerned on election night, the necessary votes were readied to reverse the election the next morning. Then the courts made sure no one could inspect any ballots to uncover any fraud.
All this was done because Trump represented the old tradition of promoting American jobs, protecting the border, countering foreign imports, countering the outsourcing of jobs, and protecting the American middle class. But stopping this old tradition was not enough for the new elites. One element of 1984 was that the past is forbidden. The presidency of Trump witnessed constant attempts to erase American history. This is how 1984 operates in the 21st Century.
What they have done is demonstrate clearly to 80 million Trump supporters that voting is a meaningless farce, there is no "democracy" in America, and if they want the country run for the benefit of the people and not a handful of liberal billionaires, they will have to employ means outside the Constitutional norm, because the Constitution is dead. What those means will be, we will have to wait and see.
Meanwhile, I am waiting on the seeress Baba Vanga's prophecy to be fulfilled: "The last President of the United States will be Black."
One migt argue if that counts as "black".
Black never even entered my mind. Since no real black people seemed to show up to her campaign stops (nobody did), I guess I've never made the connection between her and black America. I'm not sure there is one.
But, if I have to claim the pasty, white, kiddie diddling, walking corps, with the crack whore for a son, they should have to take responsibility for this one...I can still help digging the hole, if they like. We could plant them together. I'd like that.
RC
But I DO remember that piece of dust trick! -And how the Thought Police were not confounded by it in the least. I also remember Winston's poor dumb, defeated neighbor going on about how great it was that the price of chocolate had gone down when really it had gone up.
That stuff stuck with me over the years!
But what blows me away is that, here we are, right in the middle of the big bait-n-switch, and so many people seem to have failed to notice the trap even though they have been provided every benefit, every hint, every warning...
I mean, think about it... We actually had a popular book warning us all! We studied it in school! They made three movie versions! HELLO???
How stupid can humans be??
Very! In fact, the person who originally gave the book to me all those years ago has since gone full SJW, believes the MSM news, had full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome, wears a mask like a religious icon and doesn't see the stark parallels between Orwell's words and the things happening all around us right now. This is the person who GAVE the book to me when I was a child. Maybe they only did so because it was the popular thing to do, hadn't read it for understanding, but simply out of mechanical behavior. Maybe there were never any lights on at home.
God, the thought of that makes my heart break.
And it has always worried me, too; I mean, what if one day I also wake up with my mind off-line in some critical way? Like the long hospital beeeeeep on a heart monitor for the suddenly deceased with no hope of resuscitation. Is that possible? It doesn't seem possible, except I've seen it happen more than once when supposedly smart and aware individuals turn into pod people.
I pray it never happens to me.
In fact, I hold that low-level concern always in the back of my mind in order to keep myself motivated.
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself .
Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself..." -ACIM Chapter 31 – V. Self-Concept versus Self
( V.17:6-9) [Link]
"This unlearns the thought system of guilt and attack, freeing us to remember the Everything beyond the nothing"
Yosemite Sam has a temper - YouTube
Orwells book "1984" was virtually unknown to the common people in the Eastern Bloc. Nor were his other novels.
I had read it later, after the collapse. And Huxley's "Brave New World".
With both book obviously providing the template for our contemporary society.
"unlearn the thought system of guilt and attack," moreover, you can free us, " from the everything, beyond the nothing."
I mean, how hard is that, right?
Stuck in the Middle with you - Stealers Wheel - YouTube
PLEASE tell me that's aged makeup on her! (A la Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man.)
Also, a question: Who's the mimic troll to which you refer? I don't see the most likely candidate here - I think. If this is an incommodious place, just ignore the question.
Wish me luck in pool!
RC
Jodi Foster * * *
Smith: How far away are the stars?
O' brien: They are as far away as we say they are!
Smith: 'The Party' will collapse. Some force in the universe will defeat you!
Interesting show and interesting show!
Not just 1984, also "Brave New World, "Fahrenheit 451", "The Handmaid's Tale"; all four of these novels that warned of future dystopias were read and studied when I went to high school. All warnings that went unheeded.
RC
Thanks both.
RC
"This unlearns the thought system of guilt and attack, freeing us to remember the Everything beyond the nothing"
Parvizal.
The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature (Audio) - YouTube
As Politcal Ponerology points out, the pathocracy uses all ideologies and establishes its own twisted and dark context and meaning. The idea that all values are relative means they define the meaning. Critical race theory and 47 genders is an example. Each of us must stand for values in our lives. It also means that heart and mind must be involved in the evaluation, and this is the heart of spiritual truth.
When we try to see their plan, such as the Paris Climate Accord, we need to see that education molds the minds. Matt Ehret wrote about the Rhodes Scholars and their overall agenda. Who set the standards for Common Core, two Rhodes Scholars.
I think if you did a retrospective review of John Gatto, you will find history being rewritten, social justice, white supremacy, Global warming the result of over population, and stupid math and literacy. In other words 1984 is being implemented now.
The book could not predict artificial intelligence and transhumanism as control mechanisms, and since all the tech companies want transhumanisn it exists in the National Security state.
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"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
And there you have it folks, the conundrum of our times.