Oceania | 1984

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  • @Jacob-yg7lz
    @Jacob-yg7lz Před 4 lety +3951

    Fun fact: The only bit of optimism in 1984 was that the appendix says "Newspeak was" in past tense.

    • @DayOldMeat
      @DayOldMeat Před 4 lety +991

      Yes, what's often overlooked is that the epilogue is written in-narrative, and is written in the past tense. Eventually, totalitarianism falls.

    • @watermelonhead8054
      @watermelonhead8054 Před 4 lety +92

      i found that to be kind of a copout tbh

    • @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
      @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 Před 4 lety +395

      @@DayOldMeat
      How do you know that was not written by a party memeber documenting INGSOC past policies,
      In order to plan for more permanent solutions in future?

    • @DayOldMeat
      @DayOldMeat Před 4 lety +297

      @@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 That is a reasonable hypothesis, (I haven't checked the book to see if it works) but newspeak, at least, is consigned to history. That suggests INGSOC collapsed or became less authoritarian.

    • @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
      @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 Před 4 lety +106

      @@DayOldMeat
      On the other hand it could be written by someone outside of Oceania.

  • @martinjoseph5410
    @martinjoseph5410 Před 4 lety +3750

    My fav line in the whole book:
    Winston: Does Big Brother exist the way I exist?
    O'Brien: You do not exist.

    • @danielmcgillis270
      @danielmcgillis270 Před 4 lety +259

      My fave.
      Winston: Do you think the resistance is real?
      Julia: No none of it is real.

    • @justaguy3392
      @justaguy3392 Před 4 lety +323

      Winston: I think I saw graphite on the ground.
      O'Brien: You didn't see graphite.

    • @ikkemikkel2232
      @ikkemikkel2232 Před 4 lety +48

      @@justaguy3392 I understood that reference.

    • @voidcatto1805
      @voidcatto1805 Před 4 lety +49

      @@justaguy3392 I serve the soviet union

    • @erenyeager3829
      @erenyeager3829 Před 4 lety +16

      That means Big Brother isn't real.

  • @michaelhaught1192
    @michaelhaught1192 Před 4 lety +854

    Oh dear lord I was not prepared for that message, was nodding off to sleep when I heard my name lmao

    • @felixleong61
      @felixleong61 Před 4 lety +4

      😂😂

    • @taffysaur
      @taffysaur Před 4 lety +30

      Shit, me too! Is it just a coincidence that they used our name or did it know somehow?

    • @thatguy-qb6up
      @thatguy-qb6up Před 4 lety +8

      Wait how because they used my name. (Jonathon) hmm...

    • @pailhorsegaming6762
      @pailhorsegaming6762 Před 3 lety +5

      I literally straightened and found I couldn’t look away... Thats... fuck that’s creepy.

    • @roaringbeardragon4531
      @roaringbeardragon4531 Před 3 lety +2

      Oof

  • @KEVMAN7987
    @KEVMAN7987 Před 4 lety +525

    I read a theory once that Oceania eventually fell because the index is written in the past tense as if 1984 is an educational historical document.

    • @owenparris7490
      @owenparris7490 Před rokem +16

      That's what I believe.

    • @BrandonVout
      @BrandonVout Před rokem +14

      I brought up this theory in my English class over a decade ago. My teacher dismissed it since the whole book was written in past tense. He went on to talk about another book with a similar premise (I think it was a matriarchy distopia but I don't remember the name) that did explicitly say the regime fell in the appendix as it talked about aspects of the former regime, possibly inspired by this theory.

    • @kademcarthur5362
      @kademcarthur5362 Před 11 měsíci

      @@BrandonVoutWas it Handmaid’s Tale?

    • @BrandonVout
      @BrandonVout Před 11 měsíci

      @@kademcarthur5362 No, it was about a women-dominated society, not male-dominated.

    • @seranonable
      @seranonable Před 9 měsíci +1

      the inner party thinking that Oceania can't possibly fail is on par with North Koreans thinking that Kim Jong Un is a demigod

  • @janicechristiedenton0451
    @janicechristiedenton0451 Před 4 lety +3963

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

    • @firesalamander4795
      @firesalamander4795 Před 4 lety +176

      -Winston Smith- , his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from enter-ing along with him.

    • @harkness1720
      @harkness1720 Před 4 lety +102

      One of the most iconic openings in literature ever.

    • @noirto2
      @noirto2 Před 4 lety +50

      1984 probably already creeping into our life, bad news is fake news. the ministry of truth is the cia. And the ministry of love is the NSA with it's surveillance apparatus built up temporary reveled by snowoden.

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat Před 4 lety +36

      @@noirto2 The ministry of truth is Fox news, the CIA doesn't do propaganda they destabilize and overthrow other countries.

    • @No1More1Mr1Nice1Guy1
      @No1More1Mr1Nice1Guy1 Před 4 lety +15

      @@FakeSchrodingersCat what news station should we watch to be as free and smart as you?

  • @Liberater4589
    @Liberater4589 Před 4 lety +1825

    anyone else see the irony of an advert about how nord vpn protects your privacy on a 1984 video or is it just me

    • @Viktor16161616
      @Viktor16161616 Před 4 lety +117

      The greater irony is that NordVPN was breached by Chinese hackers.

    • @ArcturusOTE
      @ArcturusOTE Před 4 lety +6

      @@Viktor16161616 For how long?

    • @whynot-tomorrow_1945
      @whynot-tomorrow_1945 Před 4 lety +11

      NordVPN is Skynet.

    • @TheSporelord01
      @TheSporelord01 Před 4 lety +27

      @Brian Holtzman Brian I hope u know that Tor is controlled by the US government. Look up the exit node control vulnerability of the Tor network.

    • @Elfnetdesigns
      @Elfnetdesigns Před 4 lety +25

      The bigger irony is if you pay attention to events going on for real, FTC about to drop a hammer on non corporate media content creators, Virginia about top pass laws to take guns, all the false flag shootings.. 2020 is going to a hell of a year, lots of people online will be going bankrupt and we could see a second civil war in the US. What comes out on the other end could very well be a 1984 type nation.

  • @rebelappliance771
    @rebelappliance771 Před 4 lety +781

    I went to a school like this once.
    “It’s whatever the party tells you it is.”

  • @armydillo1013
    @armydillo1013 Před 4 lety +116

    The thing that I found the most terrifying about oceania when I read 1984 was the fact that there was no big bad at the top who was completely aware of everything. All of these people were just allowing for this system to persist, completely complicit in it in spite of how horrible it made their lives.

    • @luigivercotti6410
      @luigivercotti6410 Před 2 lety +12

      I still can't quite fathom that. I mean, what's to stop a clandestine inner party conspiracy growing with the dissatisfaction of unambitious staleness, into infighting within the inner party ranks that cannot be suppressed due to the chain of command, evolving into reactionary destabilising policies surfacing just enough to kindle growing unrest with the outer party, and then the proles?
      The logistics and operation of the needed circular hierarchy that is necessary to deadlock the state seem impossible. If a director in a ministry can be arrested by their own agents, who decides the successor? Even if there are protocols enforced some other way, the circularity of the hierarchy always means that the outcome is going to be influenced by the original rogue element, right?

    • @accountreality1988
      @accountreality1988 Před 2 lety +1

      @@luigivercotti6410 covid warriors are a good example.

    • @paji2030
      @paji2030 Před rokem

      @@accountreality1988dude I never understood the Covid theories. It’s a sickness, masks help and have helped in history before, I think you guys are just too lazy, entitled and just not good people.

    • @saucevc8353
      @saucevc8353 Před rokem +7

      @@luigivercotti6410 Well the inner party is shown to live quite lavishly, in fact it's stated that ambitious Outer party members are often promoted to inner party to keep them satisfied. So they'd have no reason to rebel. The Outer party is the only class with any chance to desire rebellion, but they're kept under such heavy surveillance it's impossible.

    • @saucevc8353
      @saucevc8353 Před rokem +10

      @@accountreality1988 Basic health measures = literally 1984? Do you also complain when you wear a seatbelt?

  • @jacques8221
    @jacques8221 Před 4 lety +2527

    It was so scary in the book when I couldnt tell for how long the ministry of love had been watching winston. Maybe they were watching him from the first pages.

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry Před 4 lety +398

      Perhaps they had always been watching him, and had guided him down the path of self-destruction so that his rebellion was controlled?
      That's my theory for how they controlled the Outer Party, at any rate. They recognise that these folk are the most likely to rebel... so they permit it, nay they encourage it, like allowing a rebellious child to drink alcohol so the strong taste will put them off from wanting to drink again for many years to come. Allow Winston to believe it was idea all along, so he may learn the consequences, and so will not try again when they lose their watchful gaze over him.

    • @pantherace1000
      @pantherace1000 Před 4 lety +25

      They probably were.

    • @maxh19991
      @maxh19991 Před 4 lety +5

      @Barrack Obama Vlogs That doesn't make sence tho, why cause him to rebel only to teach him a lesson if they were just going to kill him anyway?

    • @maxh19991
      @maxh19991 Před 4 lety +6

      @Barrack Obama Vlogs Yes, that make sence, but then the point isn't to teach *him* a lesson

    • @auroralaruam
      @auroralaruam Před 4 lety +41

      It's also notable that they do not specify any laws at all, as to not give anyone any ideas.
      They might allow minor infractions such as having sex, Winston writing in his book and so on, because they are mostly harmless and might prevent them from breaking larger more Important laws like undermining the party's authority or trying to join a revolution.
      The party is just picking and choosing their battles the best they can.

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 Před 4 lety +1821

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.”

    • @cavejohnson982
      @cavejohnson982 Před 4 lety +29

      Actually More positive than the rest, as it shows that the humans dont give up

    • @michaelstodovski2219
      @michaelstodovski2219 Před 4 lety +35

      ...Kinky
      :P

    • @Garangus
      @Garangus Před 4 lety +25

      @@cavejohnson982 As in not giving up in the mission of making their fellow man suffer more.

    • @thebigenchilada678
      @thebigenchilada678 Před 4 lety +6

      Cave Johnson it’s not that they don’t give up it’s that they let it happen

    • @nzuckman
      @nzuckman Před 4 lety +16

      I don't think I've ever felt as much despair as when I read part 3 of 1984 😰

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 Před 4 lety +286

    Funny fact from the book - I have not found if there was ever a time when Oceania was ever against both Eurasia and Eastasia at the same time.

    • @4vesta255
      @4vesta255 Před 4 lety +30

      Kemot300 I just assume that Oceania has a very unstable foreign policy.

    • @keisufederationmapping2748
      @keisufederationmapping2748 Před 3 lety +22

      @@4vesta255 its possible that oceania is made up of 3 cities, oceania, eurasia, eastasia. each city complies with what oceania says is true which means if oceania is at war with eastasia, everyone in eastasia says they’re at war with oceania.

    • @maya07_11
      @maya07_11 Před 2 lety +2

      maybe Oceania was never in war with Estasia or Eurasia

    • @Devansh-nu4qw
      @Devansh-nu4qw Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@maya07_11 That is exactly what is being implied in Goldstein's book, that war has changed its form and become so equivalent to peace, that it is impossible to distinguish between them.
      WAR IS PEACE

  • @casbot71
    @casbot71 Před 4 lety +134

    *Stellaris settings: Choose from…*
    Fanatic authoritarian/Xenophobe, Oligarchy, Nationalistic zeal or Shadow council, Byzantium Bureaucracy, militaristic.
    _We have always been at war with xenos._

    • @vincegalila7211
      @vincegalila7211 Před 4 lety

      Do you really need a shadow council when you're already Authoritarian?

    • @sondremarsteen5064
      @sondremarsteen5064 Před 4 lety +11

      @@vincegalila7211 Seeing as the vast majority of the population doesn't know who the leader/leaders of Oceania are, yes.

    • @noobjo.mp4196
      @noobjo.mp4196 Před 3 lety +7

      I use Xenophobe, authoritarian and materialist
      Police state, Shadow council and byzantine bureaucracy (researched)
      Dictatorial authority (it's just for show, it's actually the shadow council that rules)

  • @patsfreak
    @patsfreak Před 4 lety +2033

    Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past

    • @liambeckett7123
      @liambeckett7123 Před 4 lety +35

      patsfreak now testify

    • @cesarespinozaspain
      @cesarespinozaspain Před 4 lety +15

      @@liambeckett7123 Came for this.. left satisfied... cheers

    • @Mister_Kourkoutas
      @Mister_Kourkoutas Před 4 lety +9

      patsfreak “He who controls the pants controls the galaxy!”

    • @complex314i
      @complex314i Před 4 lety +20

      For those who do, the world is theirs to Command & Conquer.

    • @Alejojojo6
      @Alejojojo6 Před 4 lety +1

      So the one who controls the present controls the past and the future.

  • @comradekoupetorska4253
    @comradekoupetorska4253 Před 4 lety +3985

    I love that someone finally brought up the idea that Oceania is actually a tiny, insignificant state. It's the most likely idea for me. Everything is a lie, so why do we trust them to say the truth about geopolitics?

    • @zachfakelastname
      @zachfakelastname Před 4 lety +347

      I think this is reading into the book to much. In the appendix Orwell never really seems to point to the idea that Oceania is just the UK, he acts like the geopolitics we learn in the book is at least similar to the truth. But I still think it's a good theory

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 Před 4 lety +103

      Comrade Koupetorska honestly it wouldn’t make sense otherwise.
      Think about it this way :
      How much time was any totalitarian state allowed to exist ? Basically the longest one are China and Korea.
      Now, without nuclear weapons, or powerful allies, how long do you think it would’ve been before North Korea was finally beaten either by South Korea alone, or by an international coalition, or by Japan ? Probably not much. I mean, at most it would’ve been a century.
      What I’m getting at is that such a state, if insignificant in sizes, would probably not survive long enough to convince all of its citizen that the outside world is completely full of enemies to the point that literally no one flees the country.
      The only two plausible scenarios are that either Oceania is about the size it is claimed to be, or there is literally no one else in Europe, most of North Africa the Middle East, and Russia.
      Either that, or everybody is fighting with everybody else, but how likely is a century long (or longer) world war ? Not much I’d say.

    • @davidulanovsky8943
      @davidulanovsky8943 Před 4 lety +45

      Nathan Jora China and North Korea are not the only or longest running totalitarian states by any stretch.

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry Před 4 lety +54

      @@bruhiusmaximus5386 It is simple. The unusual golden coin with the £ symbol on it is merely a symbol of the enemies of the state. The solution is simple, we must have stronger surveillance to ensure these spies do not return to our shores!
      But truthfully, I do agree with the idea that INGSOC is just the UK. The name itself implies it is ENGLISH in nature, an American party would not be called this. Though the presence of a Eurasian "slave" who is actually one of the Inner Party's members, as well as the perpetual state of war where nobody seems capable of gaining an upperhand, does make me believe that ALL nations are secretly allied. The political parties (all basically equivalent to INGSOC) are all in agreement, perpetual war and fear allows total control.
      If it was just the UK, or the UK was a puppet-state to America, I'm sure some other nation that *wasn't* controlled by an INGSOC-esque party would have actually been able to develop a weapon that could genuinely WIN the war, to liberate England from its oppressors. Or at least they would be able to shake up the UK enough to smash the brainwashing that the Outer Party have been subjected to... or encourage the Proles to rise up. Its kind of like how Chinese folk that go to other countries learn their surveillance state *isn't* a global norm, except in this case the other countries would have to go to them.

    • @gregorhodson3741
      @gregorhodson3741 Před 4 lety +152

      I think it ruins the dystopian spirit if Oceania is weak and could easily be toppled by foreign intervention. One of the reasons I find the world of 1984 so compelling is how fully it crushes all hope for its future. Oceania has basically made itself invincible. No internal threat can arise, and none of the external powers would even want to threaten their existence, because the status quo is crucial for the stability of Eastasia and Eurasia as well. Not only is Oceania terrible, but it will last forever and only get worse. This is what makes it such an effective dystopia.

  • @daveholland6293
    @daveholland6293 Před 4 lety +619

    "Porn keeps them in an unaware state"
    DER COOMERS

  • @thehedgehogsdilemma9478
    @thehedgehogsdilemma9478 Před 4 lety +147

    “If you want to picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face... FOREVER.
    - George Owell

  • @roflmywaffles1313
    @roflmywaffles1313 Před 4 lety +6673

    I like the theory that Oceania doesn't really exist, it's just Britain being an alternate history version of North Korea while the rest of the world moves on.

    • @JohnnyElRed
      @JohnnyElRed Před 4 lety +1022

      Most likely. In the rest of that world, they have modern technology, while the British Isles languish with outdated technology.

    • @darthcole4668
      @darthcole4668 Před 4 lety +398

      I’ve never heard this theory before.

    • @frankg2790
      @frankg2790 Před 4 lety +560

      I prefer Ingsoc to be a Britain whose military is fighting mock battles with China and Russia for the entertainment of the starving masses.

    • @Penguinmanereikel
      @Penguinmanereikel Před 4 lety +539

      Rofl My Waffles yeah. There is the theory that Airstrip One is Oceania’s only designated territory and they’re just making everything up, but then I would understand why they would need two other nations to be made up, because wouldn’t having just one be enough to convince the masses? Also, by virtue, if Eurasia and Eastasia weren’t real, then what would be the point of constantly rewriting history when alliances change? If they were just making it up, then there would be no need to spend all that manpower and logistics in the Ministry of Truth.

    • @roflmywaffles1313
      @roflmywaffles1313 Před 4 lety +472

      @@Penguinmanereikel if you have one enemy people may wrong think and ask how one empire controls 4 continents and why we haven't either destroyed them or been destroyed ourselves. A three way world war is more plausible

  • @MeLikeGuns
    @MeLikeGuns Před 4 lety +1193

    >be me
    >Oceanian prole
    >tfw no Eastasian gf

    • @dapootisbird3608
      @dapootisbird3608 Před 4 lety +180

      That is doubleplus ungood, has many badthink

    • @sodachips9556
      @sodachips9556 Před 4 lety +54

      >Feels bad man

    • @4realm8rusirius
      @4realm8rusirius Před 4 lety +28

      @@dapootisbird3608 Eastasia has always been our enemy not Eurasia that's is double ungood bad think of the worst kind back to room 101

    • @thewrathematician1911
      @thewrathematician1911 Před 4 lety +51

      Loneliness is Companionship.
      Misery is Joy.
      Cheetos are Healthy.

    • @maxkennedy8075
      @maxkennedy8075 Před 4 lety +17

      >Feels plusungood man

  • @wells8356
    @wells8356 Před 4 lety +322

    One note: INGSOC is not the name of the party, its name is just that: "The Party". INGSOC is the newspeak word for "English Socialism", which is the ideology of The Party. Other than that, this is probably the best video about 1984 on CZcams.

    • @boxcarz
      @boxcarz Před 4 lety +41

      The Party's official name is probably something like "English Socialist Party", but is simply referred to as "The Party" for the same reason that
      the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' is simply referred to by most people as the 'UK'.

    • @numba6457
      @numba6457 Před 4 lety +20

      INGSOC IS the name of the party. It's referred to as "the party" because it's the only party in oceania. This is the dumbest comment i've ever seen, delete it

    • @wells8356
      @wells8356 Před 3 lety +8

      @@numba6457 No, it's not. If it was, then it would contradict one of the basic principles of newspeak, which is that no synonyms must exist. Also, it would be quite weird for the party to name itself after its ideology. It's like calling a communist party "communism".
      Furthermore:
      -The party is never referred to as INGSOC in the book
      -INGSOC is very explicitly referred to as the ideology of the party
      -When the Party is mentioned, it is done so in capital letters
      Please, do yourself a favor and inform yourself before insulting people over topics that you clearly know nothing about.

    • @lukestoppo5388
      @lukestoppo5388 Před 3 lety +1

      @@wells8356 Have you never heard of the Conservative Party in the UK? Or the Liberal Democrats Party in the UK?

    • @Kolokommouna
      @Kolokommouna Před 2 lety +2

      @@lukestoppo5388 conservative party, not conservatism (party)

  • @franzsanders9573
    @franzsanders9573 Před 4 lety +109

    _Still_ probably my pick for the most terrifying dystopian government in the history of ever.
    Also, does anyone else like to theorize that 1984 secretly takes place in the same world as Brave New World & Fahrenheit 451?

    • @dominikweber4305
      @dominikweber4305 Před 2 lety +5

      Please explain that theory

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 Před 2 lety +1

      Well how can they all Exist on the same Island as England. Unless they are in three different time periods
      Fahrenheit 451 lead to citizens obediently accepting 1984. Plus Fahrenheit 451 ends in a Nuclear Bombing. And 1984 is after a Nuclear War. After 1984 was over thrown in the 7 years War Brave New World formed.

    • @hughmungus7621
      @hughmungus7621 Před 2 lety +4

      @@dominikweber4305 I read all those books in high school, I think that’s his theory 😂😂

    • @leeernyu7408
      @leeernyu7408 Před rokem +9

      I think brave new word came after 1984. Oceania and ingsoc is like a test run of how to control the society

    • @saucevc8353
      @saucevc8353 Před rokem

      Here's my personal theory: Fahrenheit 451 takes place before both 1984 and Brave New World. It shows the descent of capitalism into hyperconsumerism, with the people growing into ignorant fools addicted to television. Eventually, this society is destroyed by nuclear war. From the ashes, a group of intellectuals, most likely surviving Firemen, take the opportunity to seize control by convincing the people capitalism was responsible for their destruction (half true) and that they would create a socialist utopia (complete bollocks). This ideology of IngSoc seizes the Western Powers and they unite into Oceania while the rest of the world becomes Eurasia and Eastasia. Remembering the power of the television to mesmerize and control the people, they alter the television walls from 451 such that they are also recording devices and cannot be turned off. Thus the events of 1984 occur. But eventually, perhaps after centuries, Oceania does fall. Though the Proles were believed harmless to the Party, they would, as Winston predicted, eventually grow conscious and destroy them. Similar things occur in Eurasia and Eastasia. Thus the world is united under a new regime, determined not to repeat the mistakes of the old. This regime raises living standards, the level of technology, and the level of happiness. But the leaders of this World State also become corrupt, and seek to maintain their hold on the world. To avoid another prole revolution, the State uses a policy of genetic engineering to keep lower classes dumber than children, forever unconscious of their oppression. Thus occurs Brave New World. But throughout the years, a few small enclaves of people living in wilderness sought to preserve literature, save truth, and keep hope alive for future generations. Forming from the groups of intellectuals living in the wilderness that Guy Montag joined at the end of 451, they initially worked with Ingsoc to try and rebuild the world only to be forced back underground when the Party became totalitarian, working against them in secret as The Brotherhood. Despite everything, they were able to keep some remnants of the past alive for centuries. They chronicled as many literary works as they could into books, kept in hidden and remote places as to not be burned. One of these books, a copy of Shakespeare, would survive all the way into Brave New World, and kick off the entire plot.

  • @zaron5242
    @zaron5242 Před 4 lety +1016

    The Templin Institute needs to increase its' cyber defences. This the second time its' been hacked by any outside force.

    • @rogermon3s141
      @rogermon3s141 Před 4 lety +120

      Honestly I think that the Insitute broadcasts theses to these realities-
      they were not hacked- they hacked them- and each of them reacted differently- the Inquisition responded by blocking every turmenal before I control was re-established while Big Brother was trying to out power the broadcast with normal broadcasting- only for that to fail.

    • @Paerigos
      @Paerigos Před 4 lety +44

      Truth be told before they were actually hackers succesfully hacking Imperium networks... Heresy of utmost kind.

    • @MazaAzi
      @MazaAzi Před 4 lety +56

      Imperium of man? they have psykers so it makes sense they could hack in via warp shit
      Oceania? it's the fuckin early cold war WHEN COMPUTERS WERE STILL THE SIZE OF PEOPLE.
      The Templin Institute
      Cyber Division must still be on strike due to lack of stroganoff

    • @frederikspitra7832
      @frederikspitra7832 Před 4 lety +26

      @@MazaAzi Hey, Stroganoff is a deeply important part of what we do down here!

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 Před 4 lety +21

      Ethan Byarugaba were they hacked though ? The lady literally intervened simply to say to citizen 6074 (despicable traitor of the Party) to correct his posture and listen carefully.
      which... makes it confusing as hell to be honest. Why the heck would the Party try to educate its citizen août the true stage of the world ?

  • @decam5329
    @decam5329 Před 4 lety +3250

    1984.
    A warning.
    Not an instruction manual.

    • @wallywheezer8256
      @wallywheezer8256 Před 4 lety +109

      Now, why does this feel familiar?

    • @jlokison
      @jlokison Před 4 lety +195

      Because people that have read the book have been saying this for at least 35 years.

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir Před 4 lety +53

      Tell that to Kim Ill Sung.

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat Před 4 lety +121

      @@jlokison people have been saying that closer to 70 years, it sometimes seems like half of everyone who reads the book does not understand that it is not an endorsement of Oceania

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat Před 4 lety +46

      @laz kar Actually Arrogance and greed usually put you at the top in just about any society in history and evil has never been defeated by hubris alone.

  • @pesticeed8168
    @pesticeed8168 Před 4 lety +50

    Room 101 has your worst fear in it. But what if your biggest fear, was was a 40-foot tall orange guy, with octopus limbs that also had wings attached to them, and the tentacles were wielding laser weaponry while having a stereo playing God Save The Queen on repeat at 16x speed?

    • @UKAlanR
      @UKAlanR Před rokem +3

      'God Save The Queen'...by the Sex Pistols?

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Oceania probably erased all anime. So you can only fear what you believe can exist

  • @minipancho94
    @minipancho94 Před 4 lety +46

    I always interpreted some of the attacks as self perpetuated to maintain the illusion of the war. someone far from the front would grow complacent, but if there happens to be a bombing raid, terrorist bombing or etc, then the war feels that much more real and closer to home.

    • @bxnjxmxn2942
      @bxnjxmxn2942 Před 2 lety +2

      I think somewhere in the book this is confirmed, but I’m not absolutely sure.

  • @louisgentilucci1188
    @louisgentilucci1188 Před 4 lety +856

    The story of the nameless Temple Institute member was truly inspiring!!

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir Před 4 lety +6

      Who, Mark?

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass Před 4 lety +18

      Nah, his name was Emmanuel Goldstein!

    • @roryscott2941
      @roryscott2941 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Robert_Douglass I hate that guy!

    • @tdod411
      @tdod411 Před 4 lety

      I thought it was the square and compass institute

  • @epsilonstudios2014
    @epsilonstudios2014 Před 4 lety +1164

    “Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.”
    - George Orwell’s 1984
    One of my favourite quotes and my great thanks to you, Templin!
    And always remember folks... Big Brother is watching!

    • @Critical_Hit
      @Critical_Hit Před 4 lety +32

      Yup, it's all aobut class consciousness. It means being aware of the class structure, your own class and the unfairness and explotation of the system.

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir Před 4 lety +10

      @@Critical_Hit It's that sort of worldview that leads to regimes like IngSoc.

    • @issstari954
      @issstari954 Před 4 lety

      Well its absolutely possible for a revolution to happen it only takes one power hungry individual to say hey I have the military why should I surrender my position and listen to some ass 4000 miles away

    • @mjag2834
      @mjag2834 Před 4 lety

      And at best women just become inert, and men habitual.

    • @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
      @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 Před 4 lety +1

      @How the ****
      He was def a Socialist. A self-peoclaimed one.
      Read Why I Write the essay by Orwell.

  • @The_Future_isnt_so_Bright
    @The_Future_isnt_so_Bright Před 4 lety +119

    “OBEDIENCE IS NOT ENOUGH. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy--everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always--do not forget this, Winston--always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 Před 4 lety +6

      Yikes, this sounds like something writen by some edgy teenager, to think he actually wrote that unironically

    • @mike7652
      @mike7652 Před 3 lety +8

      Leftists: Write that down!!

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 Před 3 lety

      Today is Pandemic DAY 460 🌎🌍🌏 3.8 million dead ..STAY SAFE WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
      May 6, 2021 the Eurasians have blew up our Pipeline... but we have always (for the past 460 days) been at war with East Asians called the Corona Virus since March 11, 2020

    • @fluffynator6222
      @fluffynator6222 Před 3 lety +4

      @@mike7652
      "I associated you with 1984, therefore your argument is invalid."

    • @pendragon0905
      @pendragon0905 Před 3 lety +3

      Jeez. And we all say that the Imperium of Man is a grimdark empire.
      Oceania is just a nation of psychopaths who only know hate for hate's sake. In the Imperium, on the other hand, there's hate for TRAITORS ONLY... along with hate for xenos, mutants, heretics, and anyone else who doesn't fit in with human society by the Imperium's standards. However, in a very violent and zealous form, love is actually encouraged in the Imperium, from love to the Emperor to love for one's own fellows, and any act that shows hate or even appears to show hate towards Imperial society is mercilessly put down. Even for people like the Martians, whose main religion is the Cult Mechanicus, faith in the Machine God, there is no doublethink or anything weird like that; Martians are forced by the Imperium that the Machine God and the God-Emperor are one and the same, and Martians are only tolerated for their so-called heresy because much of the Imperium's technology is manufactured by Martians of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

  • @tyaz6556
    @tyaz6556 Před 4 lety +45

    Strong and peaceful wise and brave
    Fighting the fight for the whole world the save
    We the people will ceaselessly strive
    To keep our great revolution alive.

  • @Talon3000
    @Talon3000 Před 4 lety +438

    Oceania makes the Imperium of Man seem like a holiday resort. That's quite an achievement.

    • @FongLin100
      @FongLin100 Před 4 lety +6

      laz kar not if they know a thing or two about the prisoner’s dilemma.

    • @aabb-ev1vh
      @aabb-ev1vh Před 4 lety +46

      @@Marinealver
      > In 40,000 humanity finds itself in the midst of all the problems.
      Thats untrue. The Imperium is at fault for a lot of it's problems. The emperors ambitions and visions about humans as the only power led to the alienation of the eldari and subsequent wars, newer developments show that humans never had to fight them. The great crusade led to a over-militarisation which allowed the horus heresy to happen which likely brought the nids to the galaxy. The imperiums oppressiveness which it justifies through the enemies it faces only leads to mre enemies because people rebell and star systems defect. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of oppression and war, one causing and feeding the other.
      The Imperium and the Emperor are at fault for a lot of it's problems. The Interex show that tere are other options.

    • @user-xg8yy7yl1d
      @user-xg8yy7yl1d Před 4 lety +21

      keks baron
      The emperor would not approve of what the imperium became in the 41st millennium
      He had to go on the crusade because he was the most powerful psychic being to ever exist and he knew how much of a threat the chaos gods were and knew they would have to be fought at some point

    • @aabb-ev1vh
      @aabb-ev1vh Před 4 lety +24

      @@user-xg8yy7yl1d > The emperor would not approve of what the imperium became in the 41st millennium
      He would not approve of certain aspects, like the ecclesiarchy, but at large it has held the structures he built. It's not like he was less oppressive. How do people read the lore and think it's not about how shit all of this is? And how terrible the actions of those people are?

    • @VineFynn
      @VineFynn Před 3 lety +2

      @@bruhiusmaximus5386 That doesn't really make any sense. Eventually the entire IP would get pulled in by the 0.001% marshalling resources against their rival. It'd just be a matter of time and playing chicken.

  • @madjetey
    @madjetey Před 4 lety +440

    …and every Michael slouched on a couch got freaked out immediately 😂

    • @khrdina
      @khrdina Před 4 lety +22

      Huh, I had assumed that the video correctly identified every viewer by name. ;)

    • @michaelsmith1356
      @michaelsmith1356 Před 4 lety +30

      I am also a Michael and freaked out.

    • @mikec4529
      @mikec4529 Před 4 lety +14

      scared the hell outta me

    • @SuperGman117
      @SuperGman117 Před 4 lety +4

      Massive bruh moment

    • @titanlord-1175
      @titanlord-1175 Před 4 lety +16

      I'm a Michael as well and I was slouching and freaked out

  • @thatfighterguy5846
    @thatfighterguy5846 Před 4 lety +71

    1984 is my favorite book ever. It's frighteningly realistic.

    • @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus
      @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus Před 4 lety +5

      Not really. The world portrayed in Brave New World is much more realistic than that of 1984.

    • @iac92
      @iac92 Před 10 měsíci +2

      "We are living in 1984" - NPCs who watch corporate media

  • @carsoncasmirri3874
    @carsoncasmirri3874 Před 4 lety +254

    It’s sad how many people think this book is an instruction manual and not a grim warning

    • @starpaladinnelaj
      @starpaladinnelaj Před 4 lety +11

      Its both

    • @P.ingu_
      @P.ingu_ Před 4 lety +35

      It's George Owell's dramatization of his anti-stalin beliefs. He was a socialist, by the way.

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 Před 4 lety +6

      It's neither nor both, it's just plain wrong

    • @antonikudlicki1100
      @antonikudlicki1100 Před 4 lety +13

      @@P.ingu_ u mean antisoviet?

    • @Christian-vq3lr
      @Christian-vq3lr Před 4 lety +6

      Antoni Kudlicki you can be both (I’m not saying Pingu is right, just pointing out you can be an anti-Soviet socialist).

  • @TheSpearkan
    @TheSpearkan Před 4 lety +1418

    Nobody:
    INGSOC: Reality can be whatever I want

    • @Hadrexus
      @Hadrexus Před 4 lety +14

      very funny and original

    • @KCDS
      @KCDS Před 4 lety +11

      Thanos disagrees

    • @archerbascha8757
      @archerbascha8757 Před 4 lety +18

      I reject your reality and substitute my own!

    • @1986BNick
      @1986BNick Před 4 lety +3

      Remember remember the fifth of November...

    • @wmc5431
      @wmc5431 Před 4 lety +1

      @@archerbascha8757 Dungeonmaster! Awesome!

  • @santiagomachado7378
    @santiagomachado7378 Před 4 lety +288

    "He had triumphed over himself. He loved Big Brother now..."

    • @ihavenosociallifedaddy0253
      @ihavenosociallifedaddy0253 Před 4 lety +8

      Sounds kinda gay tbh

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 4 lety +19

      Imagine how upset he would become when the entire system collapsed a few years later.

    • @santiagomachado7378
      @santiagomachado7378 Před 4 lety +3

      @@DaDunge Did Oceania finally lose the war in 1991 to Eurasia? Discuss

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 4 lety +2

      @@santiagomachado7378 I doubt it, my guess is that they never figured out lead was poisonous and as such every generation got stupider and more prone to violence until it all just snapped. That or they eventually did figure out the hydrogen bomb and the world was consumed by nuclear fire.

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 4 lety +1

      @@santiagomachado7378 Or their heavy use of nukes in regional conflicts caught up to them and eventually triggered a nuclear winter.

  • @someguitardude8462
    @someguitardude8462 Před 4 lety +9

    7:30
    My name is Michael, I was half laying down in my chair and listening to the video as background noise. That part scared THE SHIT OUT OF ME

  • @gokbay3057
    @gokbay3057 Před 4 lety +71

    "who shall remain nameless"
    *Less than a minute later*
    "But Mark..."

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 Před 3 lety

      We are now at war with cyber hackers from Eurasia since may 6 2021 , BUT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH CORONA VIRUS DISEASE 2019 / CoViD 19 since March 19 2020.
      aLL OF YOU 1 YEAR AGO COMMENTS ARE TROLLS .. i am real. your all the sims.

  • @wallywheezer8256
    @wallywheezer8256 Před 4 lety +408

    “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” - George Orwell

  • @Insanir
    @Insanir Před 4 lety +358

    "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past..."

  • @yeneraras7403
    @yeneraras7403 Před 2 lety +11

    The idea of perpetual war being essential for the survival of the state reminds me of the war on terror.
    You have an abstract enemy you can’t really win against nor even fight against, but who scares your people so much that they will accept every measurement the government takes to fight this enemy.
    Even if it means losing your freedoms.
    Not to mention that just like in 1984 the war gives the government a reason to spend money for the weapons industry keeping the populace employed.

  • @Thraka5
    @Thraka5 Před 4 lety +15

    I read 1984 in high school. Told my teacher if a regime like that ever rose he would be the first to go. Loved the video!!

    • @davehood2667
      @davehood2667 Před 4 lety +6

      I can't concur, my experience with the public schools was filled with Thought Police wannabees.

  • @kingaling6701
    @kingaling6701 Před 4 lety +166

    What a pleasant surprise I was just looking up modern examples of doublethink.

    • @grantaum9677
      @grantaum9677 Před 4 lety +6

      @@Critical_Hit I think that's a great example. I honestly think there should be an updated list of such things, even if it would end up ruined by childish memes, at least it would be there.
      Our ( bombs for democracy) and ( war for freedom) and ( gov spying for your safety) are too real

    • @vincegalila7211
      @vincegalila7211 Před 4 lety +4

      @Mullerornis Cr1tical was joking in your favor.

    • @konsorllish8140
      @konsorllish8140 Před 4 lety +7

      @Mullerornis doubleplusgood work comrade. Many rations more for you. Glory to ingsoc.

    • @comradecommissar1945
      @comradecommissar1945 Před 4 lety +6

      @Mullerornis When you can't be fucked to defend yourself just disregard their thoughts and call them a moron epic gamer style

    • @Astorath96
      @Astorath96 Před 4 lety +2

      My favourite is: egoism is altruism (as argued for by "rueling class" members)

  • @adammohamadali1891
    @adammohamadali1891 Před 4 lety +68

    My English teacher broadcasted this to our class, nice. I am watching it rn in class this is really cool!

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 Před 4 lety +5

      ADAM MOHAMAD ALI ... coolest English teacher ever 00
      I hope you’ll listen carefully to him, little one, because that’s one hell of a teacher you must have.

    • @manog6236
      @manog6236 Před 4 lety +1

      Based

    • @antonikudlicki1100
      @antonikudlicki1100 Před 4 lety

      @@kareemdurrant139 not anymore kek

  • @UGNAvalon
    @UGNAvalon Před 4 lety +94

    Oceania: Has an i
    Templin Institute: “oceana”
    ._.

    • @ssgtsimmons2327
      @ssgtsimmons2327 Před 4 lety +5

      UGNAvalon it has been taken care of citizen. Thank you for your concern.

    • @dunamoose3446
      @dunamoose3446 Před 4 lety +2

      no its pronounced oceana

    • @theexistentialnihilist2070
      @theexistentialnihilist2070 Před 4 lety +1

      I live in Oceania. The continent, not the hellhole. This is how it's actually pronounced.

    • @dari1510
      @dari1510 Před 4 lety

      @@dunamoose3446 Yeah dude, sure...Itala, Span, Germana, Russa, Australa they are all right🥴

    • @kornsuwin
      @kornsuwin Před 3 lety +1

      @@dari1510 english is weird

  • @mingchoi8369
    @mingchoi8369 Před 4 lety +52

    Suggestions for the Templin Institute:
    - Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - The Superman Regime - Injustice
    - Holy Britannia Empire - Code Geass
    - The Terran Empire (Mirror Universe) - Star Trek
    - HYDRA - MCU
    - Belka - Ace Combat
    - Audio Log: The Confederacy - Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Saga
    Dossier:
    - Amuro Ray and Char Aznable - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - Gihren Zabi - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - Lord Thanos - MCU
    - Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass
    - Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuin - Kill la Kill
    - Kane - Command and Conquer
    - Lord Drakkon - Power Rangers
    Atlas:
    - Jaburo - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - Sydney Crater - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - Sakaar - MCU
    - Vormir - MCU
    - Honnoji Academy - Kill la Kill
    - Corinth - Power Rangers: RPM
    - Earth X - Arrowverse: Crisis on Earth X
    HiCom:
    - The First Zeon War - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - The Infinity War - MCU
    - Endgame: Thanos's Last Stand - MCU
    - The Usean Continental War - Ace Combat
    - The Alien War - Independence Day
    - The Earth X Conflict - Arrowverse: Crisis on Earth X
    - The Drakkon War - Power Rangers: Shattered Grid

  • @thecouncilofnine4692
    @thecouncilofnine4692 Před 4 lety +33

    7:30.
    AHHHHHH!!!! Thought Police is on my phone! You'll never catch me alive!
    *Breaks phone and runs.*

  • @dapootisbird3608
    @dapootisbird3608 Před 4 lety +181

    This vidcast is doubleplus good

  • @Henri_Ikari
    @Henri_Ikari Před 4 lety +49

    Finally, the Templin Institute, after covering a lot of dystopias, now covers the Father of Dystopias.

  • @maiorian4668
    @maiorian4668 Před 2 lety +7

    This is literally 1984!
    -George Orwell

  • @battenburg6089
    @battenburg6089 Před 4 lety +223

    "Are you sick of being constantly arrested by the thoughtpolice?"
    Nah, I'm not British.

    • @SebsterMS99
      @SebsterMS99 Před 4 lety +5

      Good one. XD

    • @TheVeritas1
      @TheVeritas1 Před 4 lety +26

      Ouch. Seriously, it is sad that in London "offensive speech" is considered worse than the epidemic of knife crime.

    • @battenburg6089
      @battenburg6089 Před 4 lety +8

      @@TheVeritas1 Honestly you're wrong on that part. They KNOW knife crime is a massive problem, however their ability to police it is infantile. Because gangs run rampant on the estates fighting and kill eachother, usually young boys no older than 16. It's absolutely scummy that the gov and the met let this happen.

    • @TheVeritas1
      @TheVeritas1 Před 4 lety +11

      @@battenburg6089
      Don't misunderstand me. I completely blame the government for the crime epidemic in London.

    • @Michael_the_Drunkard
      @Michael_the_Drunkard Před 4 lety +5

      @@battenburg6089 the demographic that commits these has also quite grown in the last years. But yes I agree, the government not only let them in large numbers but also has an ineffective police.

  • @RevokFarthis
    @RevokFarthis Před 4 lety +25

    "One of the Ministry of Truth's ongoing efforts is the eradication of natural languages, replacing them with the artificial NewSpeak. By destroying words and reducing the vocabulary of it's citizens to simple terms conveying meanings, the Ministry aims to limit the freedom of thought, personal identity, self expression, and any aspect of free will"
    Big mood.

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 Před 4 lety +3

      Well that could be combatted by humans creating new words like Un-big-brother-full triple plus Own-life-full. Humans create new words to express themselves all the concepts of the modern world were created before they had names. In England there was a language only for criminals to plan crimes called Cockney. *It is the Thought police who will not allow people to come up with rebellious words* I think it is not forgetting old words or simplifying words but making words illegal and enforcing the illegality of words by law.

    • @RevokFarthis
      @RevokFarthis Před 4 lety

      @@covenawhite4855 ok boomer

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 Před 4 lety +2

      @@covenawhite4855 Orwell was using some pretty outdated ideas, back in his time there were some psicological studies to see if ideas were something that always existed or they only existed when they had a concept, an actual word, Orwell through the former although now a days we know that it is the later

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman Před 3 lety +2

      The CCP has a huge growing list of forbidden words. People substitute words, which the CCP then bans.

  • @animationcatalyst8123
    @animationcatalyst8123 Před 3 lety +3

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

  • @justsomeguy6240
    @justsomeguy6240 Před 4 lety +6

    They say INGSOC and I hear “Ink Sock”

  • @Callsign_Prophet
    @Callsign_Prophet Před 4 lety +170

    Never realized Mr House was based off of big brother... I'm dumb.

    • @firesalamander4795
      @firesalamander4795 Před 4 lety +32

      He is more simmilar to Walt Disney.

    • @trisjack82
      @trisjack82 Před 4 lety +11

      Fire Salamander not really look into mr houses agenda it is 1984’s control doctrine I always thought the big brother style was a bit on the nose

    • @straightjacket219
      @straightjacket219 Před 4 lety +12

      Big brother, walt Disney and Howard Hughes.

    • @bat32391
      @bat32391 Před 4 lety +34

      Mr. House isn't interested in controlling the personal life of those in Vegas. As long as you don't oppose him, you're left to go about your business.

    • @watermelonhead8054
      @watermelonhead8054 Před 4 lety +3

      mr house, big brother and scatman john look like the same person

  • @samwell8
    @samwell8 Před 4 lety +17

    That's the scary thing about 1984, you have no clue whether what is said is a lie or not. Oceania could be just a city state in London, or it could've conquered the whole world by that point. However that's why 1984 probably will never happen, because humans arent going to let the past be twisted and destroyed especially when everyone remembers reading about it and when such things spread by word of mouth.

    • @FABERos
      @FABERos Před 4 lety +5

      Well... there's the majority of liberals that pretty much already do this.

    • @bencox3641
      @bencox3641 Před 4 lety +2

      NO Oceania could not ever happen because no state like that will be able to last more than a week not because they rewrite history, history is rewritten or forgotten all of the time.

  • @avalynpoe4441
    @avalynpoe4441 Před 4 lety +51

    Can you do an overview of Ordenstaat Burgund from The New Order: Last Days of Europe please?

  • @PretzelsandNutz
    @PretzelsandNutz Před 4 lety +5

    That cut where the video was telling “Michael” to sit up straight kinda got me because my name is Michael and I was kind of slouching while at work haha

  • @gamingmoth4542
    @gamingmoth4542 Před 4 lety +49

    7:31 my heart stopped. My name is actually Michael... WTF?

    • @Osean_Kitty
      @Osean_Kitty Před 4 lety

      Same here. I jumped out of my chair a little.

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 Před 4 lety +45

    Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me. There lie they and here lie we under the spreading chestnut tree.

  • @darthlazurus4382
    @darthlazurus4382 Před 4 lety +5

    I like the idea that Oceania fell and was replaced. The part on Newspeak mentioned everything in the past tense.

  • @peternakic5049
    @peternakic5049 Před 4 lety +1

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLACING THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IN THE DESCRIPTION!

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 Před 4 lety +18

    What I love, is there is subtle references in the book that the only country that is *actually* under a dictatorship is Britain. That the rest of the world is fine, and we're the odd little country that everyone ignores. Sort of like North Korea now, how they say they're the only country left that's decent, but the biggest lie is that the world has moved on without them.

    • @fyggy5480
      @fyggy5480 Před 4 lety +1

      it was written in 1949...

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety

      @@fyggy5480 but it took place in 1984

  • @Malcalore
    @Malcalore Před 4 lety +19

    Every time I run into the world of 1984 I feel as if my soul cracks under the pressure just a little every time.
    Truly this world is a nightmare.

  • @starpaladinnelaj
    @starpaladinnelaj Před 4 lety +5

    I like the theory that all 3 superpowers are controlled by The Party, who keep them in a state of constant war for obvious reasons

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 Před 3 lety

      Today is Pandemic DAY 460 🌎🌍🌏 3.8 million dead ..STAY SAFE WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
      May 6, 2021 the Eurasians have blew up our Pipeline... but we have always (for the past 460 days) been at war with East Asians called the Corona Virus since March 11, 2020

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 Před 3 lety

      we are now at war with cyber terrorists from Eurasia since May 6 but we have always been at war with corona virus pandemic from east Asia.
      pandemic DAY 474 🌎🌍🌏 3.9 million dead we are all in this together

  • @commissaryarrick6764
    @commissaryarrick6764 Před 4 lety +15

    Who controls the past controls the future.
    Who controls the present controls the past.

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 Před 4 lety +18

    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

  • @redbluesandmoons7478
    @redbluesandmoons7478 Před 4 lety +4

    You can tell the templin Institute had a lot of fun making this video

  • @clarkheredia5058
    @clarkheredia5058 Před 3 lety +23

    It would've been great to see spin offs from the perspective of citizens living in the other superpowers east Asia and Eurasia but George Orwell is long gone sadly :(

    • @jsw973
      @jsw973 Před rokem +4

      We don't even know if those superpowers actually exist

  • @kabeltelevizio
    @kabeltelevizio Před 4 lety +1

    A VPN ad that's actually relevant to the video? What a day!

  • @sabotabby3372
    @sabotabby3372 Před 4 lety +3

    Friendly reminder to all you drones in the comments talking about Orwell's anti-communism
    Orwell was a Libertarian Socialist, he fought in the POUM (Partido Obrero de la Unification Marxista/ Worker's Party of Marxist Unification) during the Spanish Civil war alongside Anarchists from the CNT/FAI and praised the Libertarian Socialist revolution in Spain calling it "a taste of the life that was to come under socialism"
    But don't take my word for it, take his:
    "The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."
    ~George Orwell, "Why I Write" 1946 (Just after publishing Animal Farm and just before 1984)

  • @FoxesInBoots
    @FoxesInBoots Před 4 lety +3

    Ayyy! Amazing video! Keep up the stellar work!

  • @Aero3435
    @Aero3435 Před rokem +2

    Remerber War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Big Brother is Watching.

  • @ThePurpleFoot
    @ThePurpleFoot Před 4 lety +49

    And just like that, everyone named Michael jumped.

  • @mattwoodard2535
    @mattwoodard2535 Před 4 lety +17

    I wonder how many people sat straighter when the INGSOC thing played? sm

    • @Nod_Lucario
      @Nod_Lucario Před 4 lety +7

      INGSOC has no power over me, so I remained lying down.

  • @TymersRealm
    @TymersRealm Před 4 lety +202

    must of been someone from the Thought Police who downvoted this vid...

  • @darrenrenna
    @darrenrenna Před 4 lety +1

    Awesome video and advertisment tie in. I saw the movie 1984 on the SciFi Channel when I was a Freshmen in High School. Bough the book the next day, both blew me away. Thank you for this trip down memory lane and not the memory hole!

  • @jcrow5858
    @jcrow5858 Před 4 lety +25

    Person: *Breathes*
    Ingsoc: I diagnose you with thoughtcrime

  • @aspie182moo5
    @aspie182moo5 Před 4 lety +4

    It is also well worth noting that the rebellion that is likely a fiction used by the thought police to weed out "ungood" people. And that the rebellion's textbook explains that yes, Eastasia and Eurasia really do exist, because they give Oceania something to be at war with, and thus all three states prop each other up. Like sheaves of corn, as the textbook says.
    Oh yeah, and this quote comes into my head every time I listen to a Fallout intro. "By becoming continuous, war has fundamentally changed its character." :D

  • @testrichter
    @testrichter Před 4 lety +3

    Thank you for the longer profiles, as also ones based on literary works! :-D
    I can't wait for a profile on Earthsea!

  • @thomasaquinas1457
    @thomasaquinas1457 Před 4 lety +2

    MIchaels everywhere were just momentarily panicked... thank you Templin.

  • @themagalanium9491
    @themagalanium9491 Před 3 lety +6

    War is epic
    Freedom is cringe
    Ignorance is based

  • @victorzahler6175
    @victorzahler6175 Před 4 lety +18

    I really would like a video about the spacing guild or any other faction from Dune

  • @SpanishDio
    @SpanishDio Před 4 lety +23

    *We were always at war with Eurasia! or it was Eastasia?*

  • @NekoMikoYe
    @NekoMikoYe Před 3 lety +2

    You MUST get a fishing license

  • @ulf___
    @ulf___ Před 4 lety +1

    Man. I'm glad that I've subscribed to this channel.

  • @mrm6607
    @mrm6607 Před 4 lety +6

    Was beginning to think itd be more of a Brave New World future. Looks like it's going to be 1984 after all.

  • @kupper123
    @kupper123 Před 4 lety +7

    DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.
    DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.

  • @akula6352
    @akula6352 Před 4 lety +1

    In the year 1984 I had a discussion with a teacher about which novel would be more plausible in reality, if "1984" or "Brave New World".
    Now both scenarios are converging.

  • @helix5441
    @helix5441 Před 3 lety +2

    1984 was the first book alongside “all quiet on the western front” were the first books to truly leave me thinking but at the same time depressed

  • @Doctor699
    @Doctor699 Před 4 lety +14

    "It was a bright cold day in April and all the clocks struck thirteen."
    We're talking about an analogue clock here, a clock has 12 faces not 13. The concept of doublethink before you from the first line.

    • @isaaclawson2097
      @isaaclawson2097 Před 4 lety

      Or thier clocks are made for zulu time.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před 4 lety +1

      A clock has one face.

    • @isaaclawson2097
      @isaaclawson2097 Před 4 lety +1

      Instead of using am and pm it uses 00:00 - 23:59 with 13:00 being 1:00 PM.

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 Před 4 lety

      Do you know what time it is when your clock strikes 13...time to get your clock fixed. Tik tok

  • @BuckeyeNationRailroader
    @BuckeyeNationRailroader Před 2 lety +5

    It's amazing to believe that nobody paid attention to what this book was about. It was simply a book about the power and influence of government if it was left unchecked, to the point that every citizen is willing to believe that what their government says is true without question.

  • @Table_Down_Left737
    @Table_Down_Left737 Před 3 lety +3

    "I can't seem to keep tabs on this outer party member"
    "That's because he use NordVPN"

  • @josephlowes5051
    @josephlowes5051 Před 3 lety +3

    I used to think the world was becoming like 1984, but I now think it is more like Brave New World.

  • @hernanuliana9111
    @hernanuliana9111 Před 3 lety +5

    The real grimdark and writen in the 1940s by Orwell's genius.

  • @limeangelo6019
    @limeangelo6019 Před 4 lety +15

    Everyone: "oceana"
    me: *sad oceaneea noises*

  • @AllSeerAugustus
    @AllSeerAugustus Před 4 lety +2

    7:32 freaked me out. So awesome. haha

  • @lucajustluca8257
    @lucajustluca8257 Před 3 lety +5

    The point of Oceania being like North Korea but english is: it doesnt matter.
    Ingsoc controls all. Reality is how Ingsoc says it is. It does not matter the past nor future, only the words. BB is still as real as ever, and Eastasia is the enemy, wether they are real or not.

  • @johnc916
    @johnc916 Před 4 lety +3

    I got a Mike Bloomberg ad on this video...

  • @pplesandoranges
    @pplesandoranges Před 4 lety +4

    7:30 Thanks very much, my pants are now doubleplus brown.

  • @DavidSmith-wr6vj
    @DavidSmith-wr6vj Před 4 lety +1

    This has got to be the best and longest VPN commercial

  • @arandomdragon1534
    @arandomdragon1534 Před 4 lety +1

    That message in the middle lined up scarily close to me adjusting myself in my chair.