1984 Book Club Pt 3: Orwell Was Right- How 1984 Became the Roadmap for 2025 Tyranny

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In 1984 George Orwell warned us about a world where truth is distorted surveillance is constant and thought itself becomes a crime

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He called it a warning not a prediction, but here we are
Palantir is watching truth is rewritten and the word woke once a cry for awareness is now weaponized
Orwell fought fascists warned against communists and fear to authoritarianism on all sides in this episode
We dive into the man behind the message and ask has big brother finally arrived
To

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Today we're wrapping up our 1984 deep dive series with part three
Where we'll finally talk about who George Orwell really was his journey from wealth and to sympathy his and
Tefa background warnings about the talitarianism and authoritarianism which we'll define as well as the term woke
Right we're gonna finally break that woke. It actually means where it came from and all kinds of stuff

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We're in a finally examine what parts of 1984 are happening today and how the dystopia may already be here
All right now I've been teasing this
Since the beginning of part one because what we did was
in case you haven't
In case you haven't heard the
The full 1984 series which I don't know what you're doing here. You need to start a part one my friend

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We walked through the entire book
Of 1984 and I told you exactly what happened
Pulling out some relevant thoughts ideas and theories, okay?
Now finally part three we're gonna wrap it all up make sense of it and to do that we have to understand who George Orwell really was
Okay, because Orwell and the term or wellian is often used and I think there's some misconceptions about

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Who he was or what he was trying to you know pull off right?
So let's take a look at George Orwell. There's actually I think two massive books
I did not read either one it was too daunting of a task
So I took notes from George Orwell a life in pictures a documentary from the BBC all right

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And we're gonna run through that real quick and I'm gonna talk to you about what was presented okay?
Now he's important because the times
Name him the second greatest British writer since 1945 and this is where the term or wellian of course
You know comes from and also you can watch the video of this on YouTube as of this recording is where I saw it

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And it's interesting because I didn't know this but there's no video of George Orwell or recordings of his voice ever they used an actor to
dramatize
You know some of these events
Now he had written an essay why I write and

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It was talking about how writing a book is a struggle like an illness
And one would not take on such a task unless they were driven by a demon
That do so and there's some truth to that right this one truth
um
I know from writing my books
You got to get into a certain mind state a certain flow state to successfully write

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That's very challenging to do as you get older and more things start popping up in your plate
That's why when you hear about those stereotypes of people going out into the woods or some cabin or some secluded location to write
Like that's the real thing like if I could do that
You believe better believe I would do that. I think if I got a hole up somewhere for a month
I could knock out a whole book, you know

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Life's not that
Simple all right
So who was George Orwell? Well, that wasn't his real name first off his real name is actually Eric Blair
He was born in June
25th 1903 born into an upper middle-class family
He was at a boarding school by the age of eight and he wrote about all this experience at the boarding school

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Where he would wet his bed and he would pray to God to stop running his bed, but he continued to do so right
and he realized that
He could commit a sin without any way of not doing so
Which I think would art would get into some of this ideas of of religion because you know a lot of these a lot of people who

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A lot of people who would come atheists and stuff they say well God doesn't listen to me and I asked for all these things and he gave me
Awful experiences instead and I think that's that that happens right
He thought well, it's impossible for me to be good. So he this sort of planted speeds of rebellion. Okay

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And at the time his family and other people like him in the upper middle class they looked down on commoners the common folk the pores
They were considered subhuman. All right
So that was kind of what baked Eric Blair aka George Orwell
He then went on to another school called Eaton

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Um he ends up so ends up becoming a dog and joins the police force and this is when he has this realization of the imperialism
of Britain in countries like India and he didn't like that
He for the first time he understands that there is an oppression in this system
Even though he was born into the

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The higher end of things
He wasn't vibing with it. He's like I don't really dig this, you know
Meanwhile, he had always had this drive to write since the age of a child. He was interested in writing. He
Had an illness. They think it was tuberculosis, but back then people were afraid of being quarantined

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So they didn't get tested. It sounds familiar and he would
And anyway, so like he always had this like this weird illness about him
Eventually he moved to Paris and he's he's writing. He's not able to sell any of it
But he he has this passion for it. So he continues to do so
And he even though he came from upper middle class family

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With this education and such he was
You know poor he was washing dishes
But it was very happy even with all these failures of writing he was still happy and this you know a lot of the sounds like the story of the
Siddhartha Buddha who was born into this extreme wealth and this palace and
One day the booted decides he wants to sort of like

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Go out and see the world that they were trying to protect him from seeing and he was like dude these people are poor
And that was what started him on this meditation journey
So
Eric Blair moves back to London and now he's living of course with you know with the pores and the criminals and so on right

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And he wrote a book about his experience and observations about being down and out living with the pores and he sent it to a publisher
they liked it
And he decides he's gonna write this under an alias now and he chooses the name George Orwell
based upon
King George in a river that was named Orwell and his experience told him that homeless people

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aren't as
The homeless people are demonized basically
They're not all drug addicts and alcoholics which is kind of the common trope this kind of the stereotype of what we believe
particularly here in America right
And the data I found because I looked into this
Because I remember taking a social problems course in college and we talked about the homeless problem

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I forget all the statistics, but it was like
kind of alarming to me
Right and I've told the story in the past about working at a homeless uh soup kitchen and
The short version we were working and lunch started at 10 30 so we're standing there waiting for the kitchen and just like one family come through

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And there was a bunch of people standing outside. I say to the lady running the thing. I said hey
Why are they coming in? She says oh like we just let the families in first from 10 30 to 11 and 11
We let the you know the singles in or whatever
I said oh, I was like oh, there's only like one family here
And she was like well, no, there's actually several families here and I said well where are they?

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And she says there are work
I say what
There are work excuse me and uh and that's real talk
That's real talk because I also was programmed to believe like oh homeless people they're just lazy
addicted to drugs alcoholics and all this stuff right which
That not saying that doesn't exist. It's just a um

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A misrepresentation of the homeless community right and so I wanted to back that up with some facts
I always mentioned this and I never bagged up so I wanted to I tried to find it online surprisingly hard to find
So I go to Chad G PT. I'm like this is what I'm looking for give me some answers
And the data it pulled was from 2023
So take that with a grain of salt

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But some of the stats are 28% of the people that are homeless are actually full on families with children and such
right
29% of homeless are
Women I'm sure that it means like singles. I don't really know
But it's not all just like drug addicted men right

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29% of because my whole thing is like as a man. I was raised to
You know
Want to take care of women and children. You know what I mean like that I was raised with that sort of
I don't know etiquette of some kind
So like that's upsetting to me not to say that like it's not a tragedy when a man is homeless
But like I don't know there's a certain thing where I'm like I wish we could take care of the women and children

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So there's actually a lot of homeless women is what I'm saying
Uh six percent of homeless are veterans which veterans only represent. I think it's like
One percent of the population. I could be wrong about that
Now throw that fact away. I don't I should look that one up
But the craziest statistic is that 40 to 45% of homeless people are actually working. That's almost half

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It's probably it's probably at that mark now by 2025 given everything going on
Almost half of the homeless people are working jobs and this is a major problem
Major issue. I'm not gonna get on my soapbox of
You know Bernie Sanders socialism talk, but
It's a problem. All right

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Now when you talk about the mental illness being a component, which is obviously a component
I know because when I went to Austin I did on bringing social norms. I did a show about
Our experience going to Austin, Texas and now homeless guy charged at me and I I
Like tripped over this I was looking to him and I tripped over a
Lime scooter in the street and rid my entire toenail off which was super fun

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And I was like these you know these homeless people out of control in Austin, you know
The dude was like y'all what I mean charge him. He has a what the hell?
I just kind of get walking because we were walking towards each other and I didn't look I was looking at him
I was like this is my about do some
And I wasn't looking and I had flip flops on and I I'd smashed it into a scooter
Didn't even realize I ripped my toenail off until I got past him because he was like crazy

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Anyway, that's 25 to 30% of homeless people have mental illness
35 to 40% have substance abuse problems, okay
And then we get to the the number of chronic homeless these are the people that you see living on the streets
These are the ones like the ones charged at me when I ripped my toenail off in Austin
These are the ones that we you know you drive around this is the ones you think about when you hear about homeless people

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This is only 22% of the homeless population
And what that means is there's tons of people out there
Are working families women children veterans the people we say we take care of in our society
That are homeless. They're living in cars. They're trying to figure it out. They're trying to get into shelter
The shelters so the majority the large majority are not

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drug addicted
chronic homeless people at all
right
Some suggestions say that if we want to fix the homeless issue in America
One way you can do that you can just build homes for all the homeless people right which I get it like that's not very fair
Because a lot of us work for our stuff, but like they're already working

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They're already working most of our already working families, but let throw all the socialist communist fears out of your mind for five seconds
What I'm saying is that if you said look there's a problem with people living on the streets
We don't like that. I don't want families and working adults with children living on the streets
We don't want that we need to fix that let's say we're just gonna hand them a house

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theoretically let's build a house and hand it to them a condo whatever
To do that would cost about 20 billion dollars a year
20 billion that's a ton of money. It's a scary amount of money, right?
But when you zoom out and look at everything else that we are entire culture that we actually spend our money on

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In America, we're very wealthy
We just choose not to spend it on these things because our politicians are in a revolving door with all kinds of lobbyists and
They love to make enemies and demonize people and do all kinds of crazy stuff, right?
This is a word of the most propaganda is culture in history the mainstream media is owned by billionaires

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Every the whole system is just fraught with abuse
So you probably think well Isaac I almost spent 20 billion dollars on giving people free homes and I get that I get that
But
Guess how much we spend on the defense right now or war the Department of War I guess a trillion dollars a year a trillion dollars a year

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A trillion dollars a year
So we're saying if we just spend 20 billion a year
I would still have a toenail right that's all I'm saying. What's I'm saying?
20 billion to put all these homeless working families into a place where they can live versus a hundred billion basically or a thousand billion

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I should say so a thousand billion which is a trillion for defense versus 20 billion for homeless
All right, that's my my leftist propaganda for you for the day. All right
Because a lot of people they get upset that drive around the big cities like what all these homes these homeless tent cities is crazy

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And it is crazy. I'm with you. I'm actually with you on that. I don't like that. It makes people uncomfortable
I don't like to see it
Not because I'm like ooh gross homeless people. I mean, I said like it makes me upset. I hate this for them. I hate that
I wish we had better systems in place
And we can fix it. That's what's crazy. It's like we totally have the money fix it
We can just take a little sliver out of the defense budget. It's just a sliver and we can fix all that

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You don't like the homeless people living under the overpass in your city
You could fix it. We could totally do it. We just choose not to
Because we like to demonize things, you know
Because there's no money in that. There's money in making you scared and and fearful of other people and and all this and hate and hating people

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We could have mental health programs. We could have substance abuse programs. We could have housing. We could have all that
We could have universal health care. We choose not to because we're a bunch of idiots
Anyway, uh, so George Orwell or Eric Blair, I should say
He moves in with a bunch of leftists meets his future wife Irene
starts writing in a

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A bookshop you write a book about that ironically
leaves starts a project of writing about middle-class experiences called the road to vegan peer
Like how he was working down in a coal mine and he admires how strong these coal miners are and says
You know, I would have died in a matter of weeks. If I had actually do this for a living
Then he goes into the slums of another town. He sees how poor unemployed people live there

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He talks about how this is all byproduct of industrialism and capitalism
And he sees the tragedy and all this right
And the road to vegan peer becomes a success and now he can afford to live off his writing well good for you buddy
Then he talks they start focusing on focusing in on the driving force of fascism

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Which he asserts is based off the belief in inequality
The belief in inequality is what that's about
This is very much what the
um
The billionaire class wants you to believe is that we're not all equal
you know

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And this is part of the Orwell's beliefs that capitalism creates inequality
And the billionaires
Make you believe that that's okay
The suffering that some of these people have is because they deserve it
And it's ultimately manipulative
He sees fascism taking place in places like Germany. This is like you know 1930s 40s whatever

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And he goes to Barcelona in Spain
Where there was a civil war of the working class and
The the civil war was the working class fighting off the fascists
And Orwell of course joins the working class militia
But what's weird is that during this fight the communists then lead a counter revolution

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Even though they were allies with the working class the workers revolution
And the communists basically take over the whole thing and they
Force the working class militia to join the communists
And Orwell this point he's still fighting. He's like okay, whatever we're in the same side
We're fighting the fascist and he gets shot in the neck like like 50 cent

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He gets shot and it misses his artery barely
So he gets discharged from the militia
Meanwhile the communists are amping out their demands
On the workers revolution militia to keep joining the communists which is when Orwell
Gets his first glimpse of totalitarianism because

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He sees his militia working with workers revolution mates
Getting imprisoned and even disappearing because they won't join the communists because it's a again the communists and the fascists
They both demand allegiance to their
party right and this is a major thing with Orwell
He's very much anti-fascist. He's very much Antifa

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But more importantly he's actually anti-thoreterian regardless of whether the authoritarian figure comes through
The left of communism or the right of fascism
And he's defined as a democratic socialist leftist which is what Bernie
Is called right
But they use that term socialist and democrat and leftist and it's like there's a lot of propaganda and those are charged terms

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Right those are the boogie men in America
But he acknowledges that the left can go too far
And that gets into communism which i agree you know
He's he's 100% correct on that
But he said because he saw it with his own eyes and his own friends how terrible the communists were as well

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And the and the communism also leads to this path of authoritarianism and totalitarianism just like the fascists and the you know the right wing does
You got to keep it balanced right it's that it's that pendulum of swinging you got to keep it nice and balanced right in the center baby
So let's define authoritarianism
Because i wanted to i wanted to be crystal clear in these terms because i don't i kind of vaguely know the the concept of it right

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So authoritarianism is defined as a government system where one leader or a small group holds power in demands of obedience
But people may still have some personal freedoms as long as they don't as long as they don't challenge the regime
This is what people believe America is currently sliding into with this dark enlightenment stuff

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So comparable systems include franco's spain after the spanish civil war
You know franco was a military dictator who
controlled all the media got rid of elections demonized the leftist as enemies of the state so he could get rid of democracy
Right it sounds like dark enlightenment talk

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And George Orwell was like i said fought against franco
He fought against the communist
In the workers revolution he fought against i'm sorry. He fought against the fascist
But then also was fighting against the communist and franco because franco in the communist was just as bad as the fascist
And this is what inspired the whole book of 1984

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Okay
And authoritarianism is about controlling your actions in your speech
Totalitarianism is a step beyond that
It's about total control controlling your thoughts
And it's defined as a system that aims to control every aspect of public and private life including thoughts speech behavior and even belief

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And they execute to authoritarianism through the mass surveillance
right
Like that palantir system that's being rolled out as we speak
And in the totalitarian system there's no privacy the state dictates what's reality what's what's quote unquote happening
You know they're reinventing history

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To Epstein files right
We all see what's going on here right can we all agree that there's a reality where the Epstein files exist and it's not just a hoax
And like they're trying to and we'll talk about that later on
But
Yeah, no it's more like Nazi Germany Stalinist USSR

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Your enemies are erased their vaporized like they discussed in the book 1984
But back to Orwell he flee Spain in 1936 I forget and shot his neck
You got a door in your neck
And he says that every word he wrote after that
Was a warning about totalitarianism this was his mission now all right

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And
At the same time Hitler's Germany is threatening all of Europe at this very point
So Orwell was very much anti-fascist
He was debating others on whether one should get involved in World War two
And he was blaming Britain and their wealthy elites for not getting involved earlier to stop these Nazis
He also said everyone should have a firearm so like

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You know he was a pro-second amendment kind of guy
He was against the bankers he was against the elites and even suggested there should be a violent revolution of patriots against the wealthy
So like my man was he was about that action right
So he ends up moving to London right before Britain actually does get involved with the war and

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He's actually very scared for the future at this point
He sees people around him in what he calls a twilight sleep
People just drinking at the pub as if everything's fine. Everything's normal. There's nothing to worry about
Then he would go on to join the Ministry of propaganda at the BBC
And his office is in room 101

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Which obviously all those things should ring major bells and alarms of what we talked about in the book 1984
And it's here where he would read
British
Status propaganda on the radio and he said he had watered it down a little bit
He apparently suggested one time that he could chop up bits of Churchill's speeches

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So it sounded like Churchill was declaring peace in the middle of the actual war
Kind of like saying you know the mainstream media the fake news and AI these are all very
uh
Important components in the propaganda machine
So he worked at the Ministry for two years then left
Feel like he wasn't gonna make any useful change

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Through this government position
So it goes back to writing
And he then writes animal farm which is a metaphor for the elites controlling the working class
controlling the proletarians
Like farmers on a farm and it was or well as warning about trusting the communist Soviet Union who at the time were allies with Britain and USA during war were too right

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So he was anti-communism
But what people forget is that oral was anti-totalitarianism. He was anti-fascism and anti-communism
And he says that
Art is very political
Even saying that there shouldn't be politics and art is a political statement
He was also

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Anti-capitalist as well
He said because he because again he said this contributed to inequalities
And he said that we're told to multiply our wants versus enjoying the things we already have
But if we just liked what we have and and joined
Any he says enjoying the return of spring then our future could be better because then you're not in this sort of

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Fear-based dominance system and you're more of a state of abundance
You know, you're in a state of abundance when you're like hey, you know the sun is rising again today. What a beautiful day
This is versus the capitalist thing which is like don't you want your friends got the brand new card
Don't you want the brand new car you better start slicing throats to make that happen

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So while he's away
To he goes so he goes off to write about war war two all right wise gone his wife Irene tragically dies from a medical procedure
and
Orwell turns out to be a deadby daddy gives up their adopted son that they had so he can go do some more writing

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So not a perfect guy definitely not a good father
And he's writing and he's talking about how language can corrupt thought because it's power and words of course
And that political conformity is a form of reduced consciousness and we talked about this major theme in 1984
This idea about reducing the size of the dictionary through new speak in order to reduce the range of consciousness

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That's what it's all about
So why they don't like my next manning drugs. That's why they don't like sex is because they need to limit the
potential for consciousness
So he gets a lesion from his maybe tuberculosis starts bleeding
He reaches out to a neighbor lady and a bunch of other people to try to marry him because he needs a partner now

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And he's like you can have the royalties from the book sales nobody wants to take him up on his offer
With his with his bloody ulcer that I step bro
I don't want the money from your little we can peer book, you know
So orwell
He actually rekindles with his adopted son
Goes into seclusion with his kid any rights 1984

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This was this would turn out to be his final attempt
Obviously his biggest book biggest contribution to the world of literature
It was his final attempt to warn people about total totalitarianism
And during this time he's suffering from his body breaking down from the tuberculosis
allegedly maybe

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And it may have influenced a lot of the dark sceneries of 1984
He finishes his final draft and he collapses
And he has to go to the hospital and he also finds a woman to finally marry him now that he's dying in the hospital
And he dies in 1950 with 1984 being his final book his final work his final warning

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That comes through his his his characters right
very reminiscent of
Stanley Cooper's eyes wide shut his final film he he finishes the the final edit and dies before it can sort of get released
And this is where you know the

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The you know the the scariest quote from 1984 if you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever
So that's the story of George Orwell
Um
It looks like he's a fascinating figure if you i'm sure the book is great
The it's like a 600 page biography book
I got time for that, but um, I'm sure it's worth reading

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So now the real question is
Is 1984 happening right
Because we obviously don't want that
That you know the whole term or wellian is a warning about
Us sliding into some of this totalitarian ideas
Orwell said the 1984 could very well happen and we're currently at the 76th anniversary of the release of the book

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Um
So we need to look at these terms like new speak and the term woke because words get hijacked
They get redefined they even get inverted sometimes this is something we see with the dark enlightenment and Orwell was saying
He was warning us
That if you control the language you can control thought itself

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Right there's power and words
And this is done in 1984 through new speak and double think in 1984 the state uses misinformation to support their goals
So when you hear stuff as fake news
Is basically the state trying to say that look the mainstream media is using misinformation

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So yeah, and you see this stuff with like the Epstein list which is now supposedly a hoax and it was made by you know
Obama and Clinton or kinds of crazy stuff right
And we're in this state this post
Truth state where people believe what they want to believe at this point
And there is no
authoritative source because as you say well, you know the Washington post released it people be like well

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That's a leftist magazine
Okay
Now the inversion of words in terms is something I talked about in the dark enlightenment series right
Talk about liberation day being a day of enslavement
By eating at the freedom of retirement by crashing the economy and raising taxes through tariffs on the American population

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Which was not supposed to happen. There's supposed to lower the price of groceries
It's wiping out small businesses and small farms which is great news for black rock and you know great reset stuff
And then you right off the bat we had arthc junior eating like Donald's on the plane and begging people to take the measles max, you know
I can't say those words stabby jabbies

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stabby jabbers
You know you got them saying
Pro it protesting is considered terrorism right
I always say people were worried about the second amendment. It's the first amendment. It's the freedom of speech
And that is being shut down on campuses because people are
protesting against what's going on in Gaza and the blue and white and stuff

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So it's like very much inversion. What's up? It's down. What's good as evil. It's pure narcissism. It's alchemy. It's magical spells
You know to that whole thing and I experienced this firsthand
I used to use the term to sign off on my show to saying I just say stay woke. What's used to mean?
Stay vigilant of the control systems
But unironically I believe purposely got hijacked by a different control system which entered the chat

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Called q a non
To meaning that whatever you know whatever's demonized
uh
To demonize things by calling it woke
right
And it's always a dig it like leftist stuff which they deserve to be picked on because they say crazy stuff sometimes

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But the the term woke didn't always mean that
You know it came from black culture as a way of saying like hey wake up to what's going on
And I'm gonna do a quick little side detour because this is an issue
I you know
It's personal maybe because I had to change my whole side of I like the term I like the term stay woke
woke became such a toxic term. It's like I had to bail on that
um

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And
woke as a term used
To now cancel people erase people vaporize as as we would say in 1984
But he used to be a warning against oppression Howard Stern got into a bit of controversy because he said something was woke
um and they talked about this
uh
This term woke in Washington Post, you know ironically

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and
There's um
They talked about here. It says it's a bit of etymology about a word that everyone's been using but few of gotten quite right the word is woke
Which in an appropriation akin to using the expression the man when one is the man
Has been mistakenly and purposely misused by everyone from Bill Mar to neo-nazis

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You've probably seen or heard it employed as an adjective as in stay woke
Well, what does woke mean exactly when used to describe a state or being of thinking
Many who lightly toss around the word today including people who claim to embody it or those who wield it as a pejorative for progressives
Would be surprised to learn that woke originated in the deepest trenches of black nationalism

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Black leaders have been calling on black people to wake up for decades to the first users of the word
It meant recognizing racial subjugation committed by whites
Thus a white youtuber or a liberal congressperson cannot by the literal definition be woke
In fact, wokeness was originally applied to us blacks who had been mentally conditioned into philosophical slumber by centuries of

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oppression intimidation miseducation and social frustration
The earliest common coinage came from the nation of Islam which was founded in Detroit 1930
In the nation's cosmology
black Americans state of mental sleep could be remedied by a spiritual awakening reminiscent of Jesus physical

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Awakening of Lazarus from the dead the minister termed the so-called Negroes quote mentally dead
1937 black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey who advocated the black Americans physically returned to Africa was a strong
proponent of a mental return to the mother continent before physical repatriation could take place

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Quote we are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery garvey said for though others may free the body
None but ourselves can free the mind
1938 blue singer huddy led better recommended black people
Best stay woke keep their eyes open
There was no mention of white allies doing so since whites were never put to mental sleep

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Nation of Islam minister Malcolm X later criticized Reverend Martin Luther King junior for his I have a dream speech
Insisting the civil rights leader could be dreaming only if he were asleep
Yet even king in 1965 gave a commencement address at Oberlin college in which he said
There's nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution

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The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake
By 1970 the black nationalist proto-rappers the last poets recorded their tune wake up and word
In the 1972 play Garvey lives play right very Beckham wrote
I've been sleeping on my life and now that mr. Garvey done woke me up. I'm gonna stay woke

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In Spike Lee's 1988 movie school days the final lines feature the campus activist dap portrayed by Lawrence fishburn screaming wake up
Side note also kind of what he tells Neil about waking up from the matrix
His admonishment was for black people to unify rather than be divided along lines of skin complexion

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None of this applied to white film goers
In 2016 BT air to documentary about contemporary activism called stay woke
Woke entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017
80 years after Garvey's aforementioned exhortation people started using the phrase woke bay as a term of
Endearment and in 2020 as a magazine named it named its woke 100

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None of this had anything to do with whiteness yet woke flowed into the US parlance
Bandit or bout across ethnic lines despite its origins
David Brooks the white New York Times columnist for instance wrote in 2017
To be woke is to be radically aware and justifiably paranoid is to be cognizant of the rot per

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Provading the power structures this having as police and terrorists shootings of unarmed black people were making headlines as protests and movements against the violence grew larger
More opponents adopted woke as an insult
In his final days as secretary of state Mike Pompeo tweeted
Wokeism multi-culturalism all the isms. They're not who America is

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In a diabolical twist even white supremacists started describing themselves as woke meaning politically aware
We're a long way from the days of Malcolm X who said there will come a time when black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough to think
The operative word being black not wake
Keep that in mind the next time you hear woke uttered as a slur or a synonym for politicized or the next time you're tempted to invoke it yourself

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So in conclusion to that
I apparently appropriated the term I didn't know that
But that's not why I stopped using I stopped using it because
it became a
divisive word a lightning rod to
Make people assume a certain agenda right and that's what happened with the whole conspiracy movement it got wrecked from the QA non stuff right

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Which I believe was done by design on purpose
Now let's move on to surveillance uh america's got a good amount of surveillance through things we know about the patriot act
The NSA prism program the bumble-hive in Utah, which is storing just massive amounts of our data
and now the plans are palantir to compile and

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Collect hundreds of data points on americans
Which we will be used to possibly create a social credit score system like china or a pre-cog crime deterrence model
Like in minority report
And you'll notice how and I read about this in one of my darken lightning episodes
I ran through all the data points and it's just hundred I mean it's everything

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They could figure out you know if tic-tac can figure out what you like through an algorithm
Trust me that this palantir database will figure out what you're gonna do and what you're about so they can keep a extra close eye on you
on the subversives
And notice how it's going to happen through a joint venture of government with capitalism right

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Your palantir is your big tech google apple meta and tic-tac
And the palantir surveillance system has been in the works since 9/11 right
You notice Obama didn't shut down the patriot act he kept it going
So that was just always supposed to be part of the plan and this is why people think that there's you know
The left and the right are the same thing because they ultimately take us down one path

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Which is true
We talked about this darken lineman series concept of palantir
The term coming from the lord of the rings the palantir crystal spheres the bad guys using surveillance on the good guys right because
Architects of the darken lineman Curtis Jarvan Peter Till there sci-fi nerds
These nerds are gonna kill us. I say that and I mean that and they're doing it actively

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In march of 2025 Trump's executive order called for the federal government to compile multiple stovepipe data sets into a massive palantir manage system
Hundreds of data points compiling
And creating profiles of each of us. Why?
I mean you'd have to ask Trump and palantir right required that requires a lot of trust
That they're gonna not gonna do anything bad about that

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And in a way it seems like the Epstein files cover up
Could be something used to distract us
From the palantir surveillance state in a way like sometimes I think about that
Keeps this arguing about that instead of talking about what could actually be more dangerous to all of us
And those tele screens that we saw in 1984 those could be in our pockets those could be the smartphone

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We might already have those
You know that's what that NSA prison thing was saying is like they can jack in and listen
You talk about something with your friends and the next thing you know you're getting ads for it on your social media. That's interesting
We've all somehow become okay with the phones listening to us and

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And showing us ads on our conversations private conversations
We've already chosen convenience over privacy
And that NSL NSA prison program that talked about the intelligence capabilities
To activate the cameras and the phones to spy on us was what's going on
So yes, check we're already there with the surveillance element

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Now we're talking about the truth facts and the Ministry of Truth
We're in the postmodern relativism era where we don't agree on what is real
And a great example of that is that you know 50th birthday Epstein book and you know
Trump said oh I would never draw I would never draw a

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naked woman I've never I didn't even know Epstein and
Then the House oversight committee releases the actual book and the image and Donald Trump signature and he's I don't talk about that's not my signature
Okay
We see uh countries like Russia using state-run media like RT to push narratives like we saw in 1984

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And you see all this weird struggle of billionaires trying to buy out the mainstream media or to have bias experts
You know that was the big that was the big element of South Park. That's why they were making fun of Trump because
That was the whole deal is
What's his name son Larry Elson's son basically buying paramount CBS

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So that they and they have to you know the conditions include favorable stuff for dear leader
And they're and they're kicking a lot of them out like AP and PBS kicking them out of White House defunding them all this stuff, right?
And replacing them with content creators and they are the new state-sponsored media all these podcasters and you know bloggers

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and Twitter users
This is your new state-sponsored media
And it sucks because that was the fallout of people not trusting the mainstream media
We said oh, we don't trust the mainstream media. I'm gonna follow this person on Twitter. They're independent turns out they're not
There was that remember the thing called soda gate. I mean like it just goes on and on remember the white binders

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Oh the most transparent president ever
Okay, here's stuff that we already released years ago, and then then it was a hoax. I mean like it goes on and on I go on all day about that
But this is why people were concerned about
Stephen Colbert getting canceled on his late-night show
His handlers at CBS and paramount
Trying to make a merger having with Skydance Larry Elson's kid

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So another you know another billionaires like the third richest man in the world or something
So they need Trump's FCC to approve it
But Colbert was on air criticizing them for paying Trump a 16 million dollar settlement
Just days before he got canceled
and the uh and this was this stem from you know Trump sued 60 minutes for deceptive editing of its Kamala Harris interview
Which the allegation is that Trump is forcing CBS to move further to the right to prevent further lawsuits

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And you know take from that what you will freedom of press freedom of speech whatever
But it's actually more nefarious right Skydance is owned by you know David Ellison
Larry Ellison is the a mega mega donor the world's second richest man. Excuse me behind Elon Musk
And furthermore, he got his wealth from Oracle
the software company funded by the CIA

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And Larry's funding the whole eight billion dollar merger and he's gonna have a lot of control and I mean
That's what it is and note how part of the Trump also included having CBS published pro Trump propaganda
Right, this is the 1984 playbook you can no longer critique the state
It will be punished and you will be met with vaporizing you will be erased

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The Epstein cover up is a memory hole situation
Massive cognitive distance going on right now right
Trump ran on releasing the Epstein files for years as he did as did um you know all the supporters which is
Why he's in hot water for not
releasing it and they're trying to memory hole and say lia there's no such thing

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And social media is constantly controlling who sees what with the algorithm through big tech oligarchs
Silicon Valley nerds literally controlling what we see
torching truth or accounts certain truth or accounts mind you
Oh, you know i's dangerous misinformation is that or is it because i'm not tied in with some big lobbyists some big company that's

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Got lawyers involved with you too. I think i think that's more like it
I think it's i think the fact that some truthers can i mean they can openly talk about there's one guy on there
He's got a big old mustache. You know who he is he was on there talking about
Stabby jabs not even using stabby jabs using the real term
Talking about pew-pues and not using the pew-pute term using the real term

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That's fine. Okay
Just because these people have huge
funding behind them
They don't that it's dangerous to have an independent voice
It's dangerous now
And that's why they torch accounts right that's why i two youtube's get torched a vmeo get torched
Like sure you can find me on the sure i exist but like

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The problem is like people tend to stay on the platform. They're on right
It's like trying to get people to click off a social media to come listen to the podcast like it's it's not really how it works generally
They know what they're doing right it's an attention economy
Then you got war
Wars always the thing 1984 it's perpetual constant conflicting news of who's our ally who's our enemy and uh, you know

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Every's confused. They're always fueling up new enemies and this is like the blue and white some palestines a great example
Russia and Ukraine
We have some confusion like who's our allies and who's who's not
Both remember both of these were on and trump ran and said both on day one both of these wars i'm gonna end both of them
And since then they haven't they haven't ended

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We've also bombed i ran and have been as well and bowed and
Who knows
Then you got sexy time in 1984 sexes were pressed because the state doesn't want you to love anything or anyone more than big brother
And want to could argue that
There's already control over our sex lives
You know they're already trying it they it's the project 2025 stuff. They want to permanently ban smut

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They've already banned in a lot of states including my great state of Utah the the nannyest state of them all
They are overturning roby wade
That's not a commentary on that, but they did do that
They demonized lgbtq lifestyles
They push for the nuclear family to be the only situation that exists and

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And and supposedly there there could be tracking dating dating apps, which is also kind of 1984 in that
Um sex is only for hookups not romance
Right they don't mind hookup culture they you can't fall in love though
And sex can only be used for procreation which is kind of how Elon Musk has been talking

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About remember he's he's got a hundred kids and he talks about how we need to procreate and populate the planet and all this stuff
And you could argue that promissuous songs like like wop reinforce the idea of sex being a function more so than an act of
Making love or an emotional connection because the family structure is dangerous to the control system. All right

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now
the final
Talk is double think and cancel culture because in 1984 the kids are snitching on the parents and this is an early form of cancel culture
And it's critical to its italitarian state as much as double think is used to
erase opposition right for so for example, they'll say how

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We need to cancel or censor someone in order to protect free speech which obviously doesn't make any sense right
But that's exactly what Curtis Jarvin said with a dark and light moment. I mean almost verbatim
Uh
He criticizes the free speech in americans says oh it's dangerous
Get the only reason he can talk about overthrowing democracy is because of our freedom of speech

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That's interesting
And double think is also you know
Knowing certain people are on the Epstein list yet
Still thinking they're gonna take down everyone on the Epstein list. Okay. So now what right? Let's zoom out
What's all my complain and a crying about here
In conclusion to reiterate or well
wasn't just saying that

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The communists and the leftists are bad he wasn't saying that
conservatives or the fascists are bad he was saying the extreme right and fascism is a problem
The extreme left and the communists is a problem because both of those
Ten towards totalitarianism which is exactly what David like talks about in his books
His totalitarian tiptoe warnings and he talks about it being a circle and communism and fascism meet at the end of the line

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And the news today
Makes us think that any kind of moderate belief system on the left or right is
You know
Not a stance that people have and that you know the
When in reality that's the answer moderation is the answer being a little left or a little right that's the answer

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It's when you're calling for deep you know the genocidal extermination of all people on the left or right like that's when you get into totalitarianism
And there's been rhetoric right
There's been rhetoric
Deep state Donnie calling the left of vermin who are poisoning the country like that's dangerous
That's exactly what contributes to the 1984 future. It's exactly what uh or was on spain

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This was part of the propaganda to get people to hate
Others
Right they got the whole country matted lost angeles during these ice protests
We saw these AI videos being released and people didn't know what was real and they thought oh my god these protesters
These ice protesters are violent they're burning up cars. No, that was AI

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That was all manipulation
right
They sent in the national guard in the Marines now to the cities
Against the own American population
It's also 1984 it's militarized suppression of opposition
And look this is just my take by all means please
Listen to another book club from someone else. Uh, I have many biases as I talked about my three hour

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Who is Isaac Wyza up episode a couple years ago a year ago
So my perspective could be off
You know maybe Alex Jones will read 1984 into a book club
I don't think so I think he is more uh based on emotion and banging on the desk than he is reading and researching and
Trying to find out what people were saying
Maybe but maybe right maybe someone else could read him be like no Isaac you're way wrong

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I'm gonna refute everything you're saying. I think I'm correct here in my views. I know I'm correct in my views
But I know that doesn't sit well with a lot of truth types right
Uh professor Adam Asalka. She had a course. I took called the original wakeiners and she she's doing other courses too
By the way, which I highly recommend her courses
And she walked through Plato's Republic and it's influenced on books like 1984 and the Republic looks at ideas of morality

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And it's arguing about the best way to make an ethical government
And this is also where the allegory of the cave
parable comes from
And they had the idea of a noble lie lying to the citizens
For their own benefit right which is a slippery concept
It's got eugenics vibes
Only certain elites are worthy of the noses the knowledge

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It's got very much dark enlightenment in it play though thought that people really are happy being told what their role would be in life
And professor Asalka said that Hannah R. Ent
Wrote a book called the origins of totalitarianism
This was a non-fiction version of 1984 about her observations of language shifting and changing before totalitarianism took over and

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She had also written a book about the banality of evil people following the rules
That makes it feel like evil is it gets normalized like oh, that's just the rules
Yeah
You know, we need to arrest families that are working and and ship them to
Um, you know prisons in other countries without due process. That's normal. That's fine. That's okay

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Because propaganda is part of distorting reality
They come up with enemies to make this is the two minutes of hate
To make us hate immigrants because they're like well they broke the rules
Because originally they were like oh, we're gonna deport all these criminals are murderers or rapists
And it's like okay. I mean, I'm receptive to that like if you're in this country murder and rape and like you should be in prison

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But that's not what they did. They're going to home depot. They're arresting people at
Hyundai plant working plants people jobs right
That's where a lot of our our farm laborers come from our meat packing plants if you ever read fast food nation you he talks about this
And Edward Brunei's is part of the system

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We did a three part on Edward Brunei's called the century the self years ago 2018 I think
Because propaganda is about distorting reality breaking down trust for the aims and the goals of the elites
making people cynical
So that they're easier to control
And there's something concerning because in 1984 everyone is lonely because nobody can be their true selves to anyone else because

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Uh henna are rent says that loneliness is a key condition to totalitarian regimes
They want us to be lonely just like in 1984 you can't have a family espouse
Your kids right
So you know, I was one of the only truthers the whole time warning you and it's Q and maga and all this stuff and you see how

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That entire thing is proving out to be
Like darker than advertised right a lot of people were like oh, I go drain the swamp all this stuff right
And you know, let's talk about pardoning gillain Maxwell reinventing the Epstein list to get rid of political enemies
Which is very terrifying because that's the exact 1984 to talitarian playbook orwell was warning us about
Um and finally if you want more there's a new documentary

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I haven't seen it yet called orwell two plus two equals five that goes through orwell's works
And it apparently has parallels with today's society
So if you want more like there's another resource and and I haven't seen it yet
But I definitely will watch it when I get the time to watch it and
You know, I could be wrong. I could be very wrong in my interpretation. I'm not some kind of literary scholar

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All right
I just know what I know I know what I see and that's why I would hope you listen to me
Not listening to me like follow me, but like consider my ideas and my opinions
And that's why I appreciate and love my community so much you guys are the absolute best
Um the people that agree with me I
Appreciate you finding finding me and staying connected the people who disagree with me. I almost

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respect you more
You know my my maggot people out there that that stick in there right because I love a lot of critiques that way
and
Um the fact that you're still hanging out and listening and I try to be respectful with it right because I do respect those opinions um like I always talk about like
Almost my entire group of friends are right wingers

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We don't agree on much when when it comes to politics and society
But that's okay like I love them dearly they're great people
As I'm sure my listeners are too as well um
So I do appreciate people considering this and and I am
Flood enough human to say I could have some of these things wrong
I could be way wrong you could talk to me five years and I could be totally on the other side of the spectrum

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