MindMatters: 1984: Doubleplusgood Prolefeed You Must Watch!

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Won't anybody help us?

What are we running for?

When there's no where, no where we can run to anymoreWe can't afford to be innocent

Stand up and face the enemy

It's a do or die situation

We will be invincibleAnd with the power of conviction

There is no sacrifice

It's a do or die situation

We will be invincible

Great Show. Let's go Humanity! Off Your Knees!

Few books and films get so close to describing reality pseudo-reality as well as 1984 does.

Fixed. I prefer the way John Waters put it:

What we're dealing with most of the time is people with hollowed out minds and thereforehollowed out souls — what pass for their brains crammed full with the ideas other people want them to cling to. It is not that they are propagandised — we're way beyond that — but that their minds are utterly colonised and occupied by alien thoughts. And —even more ominously — they are addicted to the source of these thoughts, the abusive box in the corner, which ('who'?) tells them everything they know, everything that's true and untrue, and advises them how to avoid being waylaid by false narratives, i.e. unapproved versions of reality.

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Harrison Koehli: Oranges and lemons ring the bells of St. Clemmons...

The election of 2020 witnessed what it is like to be subject to the Thought Police.

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.

I've never seen this film, but I did read the book. I actually read it in 1984. -I was just a kid, (it was a bit above my reading level; I couldn't make it all the way through the books-within-the-book part where Orwell was describing the base philosophies of each ministry.)

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.

As a funny sidenote ...

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.

I haven't watched the film as yet, only read the book years ago. Just ordered the film, so should have it soon.

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!

"The definitive film adaptation of George Orwell’s prophetic literary classic, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton." (from Amazon) - Amazon.com: 1984 (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]: Richard Burton, John Hurt, Michael Radford: Movies & TV

"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???"

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.

Hello team. Excellent review of 1984. I haven't seen the film but will.

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.

"As a warning to potential coup planners in other Latin American countries, the new government of President Luis Arce—elected in a landslide in October—will not adopt a “forgive and forget” attitude toward former dictator Jeanine Áñez and her key cabinet ministers..." Bolivian dictator of 2019 to be held on charges of genocide: [Link]

"If there was hope, it MUST lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet—!"

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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.