in the 1940s George Orwell published a
novel that Illustrated a dystopian
future
well feature at the time in the year
1984 the world has taken an
unrecognizable shape all remnants of
what used to be now destroyed as a 20th
century took a horrendous turn Orwell
imagined a world where totalitarianism
reigned individualism was dead in
reality and history was simply a matter
of opinion
of course this never happened as it was
just fiction
but the novel 1984 has resurged in
popular culture because many have made
connections between this dark society
and our own or will never saw the rise
of the internet or the policies of the
21st century but as novel has been
treated by some as almost a
foreshadowing constant surveillance of
every citizen by insuk constant
surveillance by every government against
its own citizens
those sort of connections and this has
only gotten more popular as more
compares this dystopian society and our
own this video isn't meant to compare
our society in Orwell's this video is
simply a summary of the politics history
and world in the scenario or well
crafted unsurprisingly this is going to
have some spoilers as this video fully
flushes out the world and society of
1984 let's start off with some history
how does the world become this in
Orwell's novel the 20th century is one
long tragedy the potential of humanity
and the great path of civilization is
entirely squandered in just a few
decades since the novel was published in
1949 it's not surprising this is where
the future begins to go downhill it all
started after World War two and the dawn
of the Cold War the precursor division
of the world already has begun to be
seen for us
in the 21st century we know how it ends
Soviet Union Falls nuclear war never
happens
Exedra etc but in Orwell's timeline
there is no decades-long tension of the
cold war between America and Russia
instead sometime in the early 1950s
World War three breaks out nuclear bombs
were used on major cities around the
world
including Cole Custer but not London all
we know is Britain was nuked multiple
times this was probably around 1954
during the bombings the Soviet Union
invaded all of mainland Europe as its
army swept even into the Iberian
Peninsula the British Isles became the
last bastion on the continent in the
aftermath of the war the West unified as
the United States and the British
Commonwealth united into a single
country the United States Canada South
Africa Australia New Zealand and Britain
formed to create Oceania Oceania then
went on to annex Latin America after
this history gets a little bit fuzzy
what we do know is that because of the
traumatic events of the war unrest
occurred in Oceania and the Soviet Union
sometime after 1954 Oceania fell into
civil war between capitalism and a new
homegrown ideology this war by 1984 is
referred to as the revolution this new
ideology won and under this victory
formed itself into a single party in Zuk
we'll talk about this in a second but
first let's discuss the rest of the
world sometime in the 1950s and 60s
simultaneous revolutions occurred in the
USSR and China neo Bolshevik ISM United
Europe in Russia into Eurasia while
China after fighting amongst itself for
a decade finally formed into East Asia
under the nicely named ideology called
obliteration of the self this history
that you just learned is something that
no citizen in Oceania would know about
it which is a good way to introduce you
to this dystopian world by 1984 the
world is divided between these three
nations Oceania Eurasia and Eastasia all
in a state of perpetual war over an area
called the equatorial front North Africa
there's a Middle East India and
Southeast Asia is constantly fought and
interchanged between the three
superpowers we'll get back to that later
even though the history of the early
20th century by 1984 would only be
decades ago they might as well have been
thousand
the nation's history people before in
suck are simply missed and what exists
is a society that is totalitarianism to
its extreme first welcome to britain
except if you're a citizen you've never
known it as britain you know it as
airstrip one for many britain is a
distant memory the party's grip on the
mind is so powerful what once was an
unquestionable fact like a name is
similar to a faint dream you question if
it even happened if it was ever real at
all then you forget about it this is the
most prominent attribute of Oceania the
control of information to such an extent
that facts are not reality and reality
can be changed simply on the whim of Big
Brother and the party in sock in sock
controls all in sock feasel to say it
change society is an understatement in
sock destroyed society and remade it
into something where only it can thrive
Western civilization is basically dead
now is only a civilization that exists
purely for the party to rule without
question how exactly it did this we
don't know
now when I say party in sock isn't a
party like the Democrats Republicans or
even Nazis it's more like a society
within a society as its own separate
culture and rules from the majority of
the population Oceania is split between
three main classes the inner party
basically the secretive heads of the
state is only 2% of the population
followed by the outer party the
bureaucratic but still devoted educated
people which is 13% and then everyone
else the proles the uneducated easy to
manipulate simpletons who live in
poverty
never knowing any better think of it
like the ruling classes of Westeros they
have their own issues and culture while
the masses are simply the mundane
peasants nobody really cares about the
inner and outer party is divided between
four main sections the Ministry of peace
who wages war against Eurasia or
Eastasia depending on who it is at the
time the Ministry of love which shuts
down opposition in close descent the
Ministry of Truth
the propaganda arm of the party
propaganda is to put it lightly this
purpose of the party is to rewrite
invent or destroy any conflicting bit of
news and history that goes against the
party news stories tell of war heroes
who in actuality don't exist that sort
of thing the Ministry of Plenty deals
with economics and rations it decides
who gets what in what resources must be
cut back every ministry is housed in
pyramids that tower over the London
skyline 300 metres in the air
or roughly a thousand feet tall and
oceania the only one thing that matters
is a nook since the proles are too
uneducated to matter and are easy to
manipulate by either nationalistic
pandering or to create a fake crisis the
party only really has to worry about its
own stability to survive so it doesn't
really monitor or care about the
majority of the population the party
only has to worry about its own
stability to survive like a human body
it remains healthy by purging out the
harmful educated elements and those not
entirely loyal to the ideology decades
ago there were mass purges in the 50s
and 60s inside the party in shock
removed every threat of the old world to
solidify itself among fanatic new
supporters by cutting off the population
of both the party and masses from
history in shock is able to have a
monopoly on facts for example the party
says it invented the airplane this is
simply fact now and everyone believes it
the Ministry of Truth rewrites or
destroys any evidence of this not being
the case those in the party who openly
questioned this simply disappear or are
sent to the Ministry of love for
re-education continue in mass until for
the most part it's a fact amongst the
population that the party did invent the
airplane this is a process how Orwell
describes this is that simply through
the progression of decades in sauk was
able to normalize attributes that
haven't existed in the West for
centuries class divided on education
mass atrocities censorship these are
allowed to be commonplace because anyone
who didn't agree with it is either to on
important or dead to care then solidify
this base with youthful and
nationalistic young adults and you've
got a healthy future for your ideology
in socks ideology runs so deep children
are more likely to openly report their
own parents for Thought crimes in sauk
recreated culture crafted new terms to
allow only it to exist a thought crime
is anything that goes against the policy
of the party if you commit a thought
crime you can be vaporized by the salt
police simply disappear and when I mean
disappear I mean it is now a fact that
you are never a person a nun person this
is at like kids giving Jimmy the silent
treatment this is everyone simply
forgetting there ever was a Jimmy and
forgetting that they forgot the mention
of your existence
somehow by your family coworkers is now
a thought crime in itself documents are
changed or destroyed so that there is no
evidence you ever did exist not that you
did Jimmy this is how in sauk is able to
quell the sense this term comes from the
official language of the party news
speak it's technically just short in
english but it's entirely designed to
control the use of words that may be
threatening to the party simplistic
terms like duck speak crime think black
white by limiting language to small bits
it makes debate controllable or
refutable in socks simply has a monopoly
on political discourse because it made
the words up in 1984 this goes deeper
than a weird language brainwashing is a
cultural manifestation that goes down to
the personal level reality and history
itself can be changed with the
bureaucratic stroke of a pen and nobody
thinks that that stroke ever happened
this is double think a new speak term to
hold to conflicting beliefs and hold
both as equal neither are canceled out
both are believed this is best emulated
by the ongoing war in the book the party
tells the public that Oceania has always
been at war with Eurasia even if just a
few years ago the enemy was East Asia
East Asian bombs rained on the city but
everyone believes it was Eurasia because
Big Brother and the party said so
Eurasia was always the
East Asia was always the ally this can
change on a whim history and information
would be rewritten by the party to
reflect any new change it's not a debate
to the people it was just always this
way it would be like changing colors the
sky is blue but the party says the sky
is now red so you believe it's red not
say or pretend you with all your heart
know for certain that the sky has always
been red never even considered the
change happened this is another Newspeak
term called black/white there are a lot
of terms why does this happen is
everyone stupid well if you go by
demographics yeah it's not this simple
though this world is all these people
have ever known think of North Korea
actually just apply all this to North
Korea Kim jong-il must have got inspired
somehow you can say whatever you want
when you raise generations to worship
you so what is in sauk even is it
fascist socialist totalitarian Green
Party does it have specific policies
once its views on states rights in stock
in itself is a conundrum a product of
doublethink officially in stock is
socialist it teaches that the days
before the Revolution were horrendous as
the average citizen literally bowed to
the capitalist even going so far to say
capitalists could choose any woman to
sleep with and nobody could do anything
then insuk came and forever made the
world better but at the same time in
stock hate socialist despises socialist
policies and this is openly admitted by
everyone yet nobody sees anything wrong
with it because that's the power of
doublethink in-stock ideology if you can
call it that isn't different at all than
Eurasian Bolshevik ISM or East Asian
obliteration of the self they're
basically the same society technological
and social differences aren't that far
apart between the three this is
something that may be recognized by all
of them or simply ignored we don't know
the relationship that continues between
all of them is perpetual war war is what
runs this world it's what allows all
three nations to survive it's a
distraction it can rile up the
uneducated masses it's a constant
overshadowing force
bigbrother uses in stock is the
protector against the Eurasian hordes or
East Asian whichever what are they
fighting over resources well they have
all the resources they need since they
control so much territory power no one
can really overtake the other this is
already established well then what
nothing they're fighting over nothing
the equatorial front and polar front as
mentioned earlier was never anybody's
territory it's simply a giant fighting
arena where the economic waste from
overloaded military buildup from all the
countries is shipped to almost like
venting out steam borders constantly
shift countless soldiers died from
territory which nobody wants and the
native people are enslaved and
transferred between the three countries
to work for the war machine which
continues the cycle again all the
nations have nukes they could easily
destroy each other invade Britain or
Europe start wars and Russia and China
actually attacking the homelands
but that disrupts everything it destroys
the balance of power and these heads of
state like their power so they
constantly fight over the jungle and
desert to keep what they have to keep
nationalistic fervor up 1984 is a
twisted world whether it's realistic or
not doesn't really matter the consistent
theme is information is important and
the control of that information is most
important that's the biggest thing to
take away from Orwell's world everything
in stock did was to make sure the
population was loyal and too stupid to
realize its manipulation going so far to
make those who did manipulate believes
they weren't even manipulating in the
first place does this kind to our world
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