Oceania | 1984

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 12 січ 2025

КОМЕНТАРІ • 2,6 тис.

  • @janicechristinedenton0451
    @janicechristinedenton0451 5 років тому +4001

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

    • @firesalamander4795
      @firesalamander4795 5 років тому +177

      -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 5 років тому +103

      One of the most iconic openings in literature ever.

    • @noirto2
      @noirto2 5 років тому +51

      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 5 років тому +37

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

    • @No1More1Mr1Nice1Guy1
      @No1More1Mr1Nice1Guy1 5 років тому +16

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

  • @Jacob-yg7lz
    @Jacob-yg7lz 5 років тому +4017

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

    • @DayOldMeat
      @DayOldMeat 5 років тому +990

      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 5 років тому +95

      i found that to be kind of a copout tbh

    • @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
      @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 5 років тому +403

      @@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 5 років тому +295

      @@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 5 років тому +111

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

  • @martinjoseph5410
    @martinjoseph5410 5 років тому +3804

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

    • @danielmcgillis270
      @danielmcgillis270 5 років тому +264

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

    • @justaguy3392
      @justaguy3392 4 роки тому +326

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

    • @ikkemikkel2232
      @ikkemikkel2232 4 роки тому +49

      @@justaguy3392 I understood that reference.

    • @voidcatto1805
      @voidcatto1805 4 роки тому +50

      @@justaguy3392 I serve the soviet union

    • @ilikemathematics1590
      @ilikemathematics1590 4 роки тому +61

      Dutch Van der Linde no it means that the party says Bug Brother exists so he exists, they say Winston does not exist and people will believe that Winston does not exist, and forget that he existed, then forget they forgot.

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 5 років тому +1831

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

    • @cavejohnson982
      @cavejohnson982 5 років тому +30

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

    • @michaelstodovski2219
      @michaelstodovski2219 5 років тому +37

      ...Kinky
      :P

    • @Garangus
      @Garangus 5 років тому +26

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

    • @thebigenchilada678
      @thebigenchilada678 5 років тому +7

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

    • @nzuckman
      @nzuckman 5 років тому +17

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

  • @michaelhaught1192
    @michaelhaught1192 5 років тому +875

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

    • @felixleong61
      @felixleong61 4 роки тому +4

      😂😂

    • @taffysaur
      @taffysaur 4 роки тому +30

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

    • @thatguy-qb6up
      @thatguy-qb6up 4 роки тому +9

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

    • @pailhorsegaming6762
      @pailhorsegaming6762 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @roaringbeardragon4531
      @roaringbeardragon4531 4 роки тому +2

      Oof

  • @jacques8221
    @jacques8221 5 років тому +2545

    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 5 років тому +405

      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 5 років тому +26

      They probably were.

    • @maxh19991
      @maxh19991 5 років тому +6

      @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 5 років тому +7

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

    • @auroralaruam
      @auroralaruam 5 років тому +43

      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.

  • @comradekoupetorska4253
    @comradekoupetorska4253 5 років тому +4008

    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 5 років тому +351

      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 5 років тому +106

      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 5 років тому +47

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

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry 5 років тому +57

      @@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 5 років тому +155

      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.

  • @patsfreak
    @patsfreak 5 років тому +2050

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

    • @liambeckett7123
      @liambeckett7123 5 років тому +36

      patsfreak now testify

    • @cesarespinozaspain
      @cesarespinozaspain 5 років тому +16

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

    • @Mister_Kourkoutas
      @Mister_Kourkoutas 5 років тому +11

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

    • @complex314i
      @complex314i 5 років тому +22

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

    • @Alejojojo6
      @Alejojojo6 5 років тому +2

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

  • @KEVMAN7987
    @KEVMAN7987 5 років тому +559

    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 Рік тому +17

      That's what I believe.

    • @BrandonVout
      @BrandonVout Рік тому +17

      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 Рік тому +1

      @@BrandonVoutWas it Handmaid’s Tale?

    • @BrandonVout
      @BrandonVout Рік тому +1

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

    • @seranonable
      @seranonable Рік тому +2

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

  • @armydillo1013
    @armydillo1013 4 роки тому +128

    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 3 роки тому +14

      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 2 роки тому +2

      @@luigivercotti6410 covid warriors are a good example.

    • @paji2030
      @paji2030 2 роки тому

      @@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 Рік тому +8

      @@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 Рік тому +12

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

  • @roflmywaffles1313
    @roflmywaffles1313 5 років тому +6678

    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 5 років тому +1026

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

    • @darthcole4668
      @darthcole4668 5 років тому +400

      I’ve never heard this theory before.

    • @frankg2790
      @frankg2790 5 років тому +561

      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 5 років тому +541

      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 5 років тому +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

  • @Liberater4589
    @Liberater4589 5 років тому +1831

    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 5 років тому +119

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

    • @ArcturusOTE
      @ArcturusOTE 5 років тому +7

      @@Viktor16161616 For how long?

    • @whynot-tomorrow_1945
      @whynot-tomorrow_1945 5 років тому +11

      NordVPN is Skynet.

    • @TheSporelord01
      @TheSporelord01 5 років тому +28

      @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 5 років тому +27

      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.

  • @louisgentilucci1188
    @louisgentilucci1188 5 років тому +857

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

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 5 років тому +6

      Who, Mark?

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass 5 років тому +18

      Nah, his name was Emmanuel Goldstein!

    • @roryscott2941
      @roryscott2941 5 років тому +5

      @@Robert_Douglass I hate that guy!

    • @tdod411
      @tdod411 4 роки тому

      I thought it was the square and compass institute

  • @rebelappliance771
    @rebelappliance771 5 років тому +789

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

  • @thehedgehogsdilemma9478
    @thehedgehogsdilemma9478 5 років тому +151

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

  • @decam5329
    @decam5329 5 років тому +3256

    1984.
    A warning.
    Not an instruction manual.

    • @wallywheezer8256
      @wallywheezer8256 5 років тому +110

      Now, why does this feel familiar?

    • @jlokison
      @jlokison 5 років тому +196

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

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 5 років тому +54

      Tell that to Kim Ill Sung.

    • @FakeSchrodingersCat
      @FakeSchrodingersCat 5 років тому +122

      @@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 5 років тому +47

      @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.

  • @epsilonstudios2014
    @epsilonstudios2014 5 років тому +1170

    “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 5 років тому +33

      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 5 років тому +10

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

    • @issstari954
      @issstari954 5 років тому

      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 5 років тому

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

    • @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
      @napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 5 років тому +1

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

  • @Talon3000
    @Talon3000 5 років тому +446

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

    • @FongLin100
      @FongLin100 5 років тому +7

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

    • @aabb-ev1vh
      @aabb-ev1vh 5 років тому +47

      @@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.

    • @P7777-u7r
      @P7777-u7r 5 років тому +23

      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 5 років тому +25

      @@P7777-u7r > 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 4 роки тому +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.

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 5 років тому +293

    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 4 роки тому +31

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

    • @VeeTOHFan
      @VeeTOHFan 4 роки тому +25

      @@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 2 роки тому +4

      maybe Oceania was never in war with Estasia or Eurasia

    • @Devansh-nu4qw
      @Devansh-nu4qw Рік тому +6

      ​@@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 5 років тому +139

    *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 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @sondremarsteen5064
      @sondremarsteen5064 4 роки тому +12

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

    • @noobjo.mp4196
      @noobjo.mp4196 4 роки тому +8

      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)

  • @madjetey
    @madjetey 5 років тому +441

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

    • @khrdina
      @khrdina 5 років тому +22

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

    • @michaelsmith1356
      @michaelsmith1356 5 років тому +30

      I am also a Michael and freaked out.

    • @mikec4529
      @mikec4529 5 років тому +14

      scared the hell outta me

    • @SuperGman117
      @SuperGman117 5 років тому +4

      Massive bruh moment

    • @titanlord-1175
      @titanlord-1175 5 років тому +16

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

  • @zaron5242
    @zaron5242 5 років тому +1020

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

    • @rogermon3s141
      @rogermon3s141 5 років тому +122

      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 5 років тому +45

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

    • @MazzaAzi
      @MazzaAzi 5 років тому +57

      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 5 років тому +27

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

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 5 років тому +22

      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 ?

  • @santiagomachado7378
    @santiagomachado7378 5 років тому +289

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

    • @ihavenosociallifedaddy0253
      @ihavenosociallifedaddy0253 4 роки тому +8

      Sounds kinda gay tbh

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge 4 роки тому +19

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

    • @santiagomachado7378
      @santiagomachado7378 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge 4 роки тому +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 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @wells8356
    @wells8356 5 років тому +324

    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 UA-cam.

    • @boxcarz
      @boxcarz 5 років тому +42

      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 4 роки тому +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 4 роки тому +9

      @@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.

    • @lukenw6504
      @lukenw6504 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @Kolokommouna
      @Kolokommouna 3 роки тому +3

      @@lukenw6504 conservative party, not conservatism (party)

  • @daveholland6293
    @daveholland6293 5 років тому +622

    "Porn keeps them in an unaware state"
    DER COOMERS

  • @TheSpearkan
    @TheSpearkan 5 років тому +1418

    Nobody:
    INGSOC: Reality can be whatever I want

    • @Hadrexus
      @Hadrexus 5 років тому +14

      very funny and original

    • @KCDS
      @KCDS 5 років тому +11

      Thanos disagrees

    • @archerbascha8757
      @archerbascha8757 5 років тому +18

      I reject your reality and substitute my own!

    • @1986BNick
      @1986BNick 5 років тому +3

      Remember remember the fifth of November...

    • @wmc5431
      @wmc5431 5 років тому +1

      @@archerbascha8757 Dungeonmaster! Awesome!

  • @adammohamadali1891
    @adammohamadali1891 5 років тому +68

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

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +1

      Based

    • @antonikudlicki1100
      @antonikudlicki1100 4 роки тому

      @@kareemdurrant139 not anymore kek

  • @Insanir
    @Insanir 5 років тому +359

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

    • @NODnuke45
      @NODnuke45 5 років тому +14

      ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE! PEACE THROUGH POWER!

    • @Insanir
      @Insanir 5 років тому +15

      IN THE NAME OF KANE!

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 5 років тому +8

      *THE TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE!!!*

    • @macrando565
      @macrando565 5 років тому +2

      FOR THE EMPEROR!

    • @yersiniapestis1039
      @yersiniapestis1039 5 років тому +3

      Now testify

  • @pesticeed8168
    @pesticeed8168 4 роки тому +52

    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 Рік тому +4

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

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 11 місяців тому +1

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

  • @someguitardude8462
    @someguitardude8462 4 роки тому +10

    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

  • @wallywheezer8256
    @wallywheezer8256 5 років тому +408

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

    • @generalfred9426
      @generalfred9426 5 років тому +13

      Make war, not peace...

    • @1986BNick
      @1986BNick 5 років тому +26

      "If You Want Peace? Prepare For War."- Frank Castle

    • @conorstapleton3183
      @conorstapleton3183 5 років тому +8

      Is this the new Trump 2020 slogan?

    • @wallywheezer8256
      @wallywheezer8256 5 років тому +3

      Conor Stapleton My god, your comment has made my day XD

    • @diegoayala7258
      @diegoayala7258 5 років тому +8

      @@conorstapleton3183 Go home commie

  • @dapootisbird3608
    @dapootisbird3608 5 років тому +181

    This vidcast is doubleplus good

  • @kingaling6701
    @kingaling6701 5 років тому +167

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

    • @grantaum9677
      @grantaum9677 5 років тому +7

      @@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 5 років тому +4

      @Mullerornis Cr1tical was joking in your favor.

    • @konsorllish8140
      @konsorllish8140 5 років тому +8

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

    • @comradecommissar1945
      @comradecommissar1945 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +3

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

  • @franzsanders9573
    @franzsanders9573 5 років тому +111

    _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 2 роки тому +5

      Please explain that theory

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +4

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

    • @leeernyu7408
      @leeernyu7408 2 роки тому +10

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

    • @saucevc8353
      @saucevc8353 Рік тому

      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.

  • @minipancho94
    @minipancho94 5 років тому +48

    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 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @thecouncilofnine4692
    @thecouncilofnine4692 5 років тому +33

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

  • @tyaz6556
    @tyaz6556 5 років тому +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.

  • @thatfighterguy5846
    @thatfighterguy5846 5 років тому +72

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

    • @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus
      @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus 5 років тому +5

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

    • @iac92
      @iac92 Рік тому +2

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

  • @The_Future_isnt_so_Bright
    @The_Future_isnt_so_Bright 5 років тому +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 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @mike7652
      @mike7652 3 роки тому +8

      Leftists: Write that down!!

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 3 роки тому

      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 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @pendragon0905
      @pendragon0905 3 роки тому +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.

  • @gokbay3057
    @gokbay3057 5 років тому +71

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

    • @TheNecropolis20
      @TheNecropolis20 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @Thraka5
    @Thraka5 5 років тому +16

    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 5 років тому +7

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

  • @Henri_Ikari
    @Henri_Ikari 5 років тому +49

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

  • @yeneraras7403
    @yeneraras7403 3 роки тому +12

    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.

  • @carsoncasmirri3874
    @carsoncasmirri3874 5 років тому +254

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

    • @starpaladinnelaj
      @starpaladinnelaj 5 років тому +11

      Its both

    • @P.ingu_
      @P.ingu_ 5 років тому +35

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

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @antonikudlicki1100
      @antonikudlicki1100 4 роки тому +13

      @@P.ingu_ u mean antisoviet?

    • @Christian-vq3lr
      @Christian-vq3lr 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @UGNAvalon
    @UGNAvalon 5 років тому +95

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

    • @ssgtsimmons2327
      @ssgtsimmons2327 5 років тому +5

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

    • @dunamoose3446
      @dunamoose3446 5 років тому +2

      no its pronounced oceana

    • @theexistentialnihilist2070
      @theexistentialnihilist2070 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @dari1510
      @dari1510 4 роки тому

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

    • @kornsuwin
      @kornsuwin 3 роки тому +1

      @@dari1510 english is weird

  • @battenburg6089
    @battenburg6089 5 років тому +223

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

    • @SebsterMS99
      @SebsterMS99 5 років тому +5

      Good one. XD

    • @TheVeritas1
      @TheVeritas1 5 років тому +27

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

    • @battenburg6089
      @battenburg6089 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +12

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

    • @Michael_the_Drunkard
      @Michael_the_Drunkard 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +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 5 років тому

      @@covenawhite4855 ok boomer

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 4 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @mingchoi8369
    @mingchoi8369 5 років тому +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

  • @peternakic5049
    @peternakic5049 5 років тому +1

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

  • @PretzelsandNutz
    @PretzelsandNutz 5 років тому +6

    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

  • @Callsign_Prophet
    @Callsign_Prophet 5 років тому +169

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

    • @firesalamander4795
      @firesalamander4795 5 років тому +32

      He is more simmilar to Walt Disney.

    • @trisjack82
      @trisjack82 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +12

      Big brother, walt Disney and Howard Hughes.

    • @bat32391
      @bat32391 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +3

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

  • @Kemot300
    @Kemot300 5 років тому +18

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

  • @gamingmoth4542
    @gamingmoth4542 5 років тому +49

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

    • @Osean_Kitty
      @Osean_Kitty 5 років тому

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

  • @darrenrenna
    @darrenrenna 5 років тому +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!

  • @maiorian4668
    @maiorian4668 3 роки тому +7

    This is literally 1984!
    -George Orwell

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 5 років тому +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.

  • @Malcalore
    @Malcalore 5 років тому +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.

  • @animationcatalyst8123
    @animationcatalyst8123 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @Т1000-м1и
    @Т1000-м1и Рік тому +2

    First of all, this channel is the best. But it also did these political curiosity in material videos before they were done anywhere else. This one I thought I'd already watched, or at least remember thinking I watched it. Somehow I didn't or didn't leave a comment. It is the best and pures summary of the core book setting. The atmosphere of the video is just right. You can say that it's just right. No more needs to be said, because it really is what it tries to be. Even the parts that would be considered quirky is a very basic and generic way to roll eyes over in other videos are just right here. And that's really what makes this channel so interesting. Back in the day it'd probably be one of the channels people think about when remembering youtube. Also I haven't seen the film before but the footage seems unbelievable. It's like if you take a painting with purely the gray pencil (I don't know what's the actual name of this in English) and then make it into a film, just like old cartoons (looney tune stuff and alike) played around with the usual understanding of concepts. And it all is just right. It's the only movie that seems to get that face of a lifetime's work that's omnipresent in former communist states, but now there's no friendliness or empathy, just the expression of working. And this all feels like a conglomeration of people having an idea about something meaningful, then executing it just right. Very calming also. I can say that this goes for the entire 12:08 of my life.

  • @darthlazurus4382
    @darthlazurus4382 5 років тому +5

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

  • @samwell8
    @samwell8 5 років тому +18

    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 5 років тому +5

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

    • @bencox3641
      @bencox3641 5 років тому +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 5 років тому +51

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

  • @redbluesandmoons7478
    @redbluesandmoons7478 5 років тому +4

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

  • @Hugh-Jassoul
    @Hugh-Jassoul 4 роки тому +6

    They say INGSOC and I hear “Ink Sock”

  • @testrichter
    @testrichter 5 років тому +3

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

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 5 років тому +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 4 роки тому +1

      it was written in 1949...

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 4 роки тому

      @@fyggy5480 but it took place in 1984

  • @RX552VBK
    @RX552VBK 5 років тому +3

    The end of the vid is hilarious, Dan. LOL! btw, the voice over actress never mentions her name...I've heard narrate many vids on Templin but she gets no credit. Great job on the the subject this time INGSOC from Orwell's 1984 and the wonderful 1984 film adaption by Micheal Radford. Phenomenal script and production design as well, this film was both beautiful and of course horribly tragic when I saw it in '84 (I just turned 19). I always heard of the book but never read it--Also I knew there was an earlier film adaption from '54 or '55 that wasn't very good (at least what I read about it) starring Edmond O'Brien I believe. This one is outstanding with fantastic performance by John Hurt, Suzanne Hamilton and Richard Burton. Once again, you guys n gals at Templin Institute did a wonderful in-Universe analyst of that horrible world that we may actually be living in to some regard.

  • @starpaladinnelaj
    @starpaladinnelaj 5 років тому +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 3 роки тому

      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 3 роки тому

      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

  • @Vogelkinder
    @Vogelkinder 4 роки тому +1

    Best ad insert ever.

  • @kabeltelevizio
    @kabeltelevizio 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @commissaryarrick6764
    @commissaryarrick6764 5 років тому +15

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

  • @ThePurpleFoot
    @ThePurpleFoot 5 років тому +49

    And just like that, everyone named Michael jumped.

  • @Table_Down_Left7377
    @Table_Down_Left7377 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @Aero3435
    @Aero3435 Рік тому +2

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

  • @helix5441
    @helix5441 3 роки тому +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

  • @aspie182moo5
    @aspie182moo5 5 років тому +5

    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

  • @The_Forgettable1
    @The_Forgettable1 Рік тому +4

    Literally 1984

  • @jcrow5858
    @jcrow5858 5 років тому +25

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

  • @ulf___
    @ulf___ 5 років тому +1

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

  • @akula6352
    @akula6352 5 років тому +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.

  • @pplesandoranges
    @pplesandoranges 5 років тому +4

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

  • @TymersRealm
    @TymersRealm 5 років тому +202

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

  • @sabotabby3372
    @sabotabby3372 5 років тому +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)

  • @InstiGator805
    @InstiGator805 4 роки тому +1

    We are being watched by our cellphones & jet we can't let go. Big brother is always watching.

  • @VCYT
    @VCYT 5 років тому

    1:11 - Battersea Power Station in central London, now a giant mall with luxury appartments, currently under construction, amongst a mass building project around it.

  • @victorzahler6175
    @victorzahler6175 5 років тому +18

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

    • @alejandrorivas4585
      @alejandrorivas4585 5 років тому

      Check out ideasoficeandfire

    • @LordXarius
      @LordXarius 5 років тому

      Alejandro Rivas Go Fuck Yourself

    • @danielmcgillis270
      @danielmcgillis270 5 років тому +2

      @@alejandrorivas4585 beat me too it. THIS! The dude is a mentat on Dune.

  • @mattwoodard2535
    @mattwoodard2535 5 років тому +17

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

    • @Nod_Lucario
      @Nod_Lucario 5 років тому +7

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

  • @goofytycooner5519
    @goofytycooner5519 3 роки тому +3

    Everyone named Michael: (aggressively sits up straight)

  • @thomasaquinas1457
    @thomasaquinas1457 5 років тому +2

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

  • @KimsLantern
    @KimsLantern 5 років тому +1

    One of the lines I read just last night is “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”

  • @clarkheredia5058
    @clarkheredia5058 3 роки тому +24

    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 Рік тому +4

      We don't even know if those superpowers actually exist

    • @KevinDavis338
      @KevinDavis338 День тому

      If they exist, I'm guessing the citizens are going through the same type of hell like the people of Ocenia is going through.

  • @nicholasszabo5954
    @nicholasszabo5954 3 роки тому +4

    "1984 is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual." - literally everyone.

  • @mrm6607
    @mrm6607 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @DavidSmith-wr6vj
    @DavidSmith-wr6vj 4 роки тому +1

    This has got to be the best and longest VPN commercial

  • @chrisdaniels3929
    @chrisdaniels3929 5 років тому +1

    I got the impression there was no war when the description of rocket attacks on civilian houses is given.
    An excellent way to illustrate that reality cannot be perceived.

  • @erichunsaker4969
    @erichunsaker4969 5 років тому +4

    BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!!

  • @SpanishDio
    @SpanishDio 5 років тому +23

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

    • @ericmorang3903
      @ericmorang3903 5 років тому +1

      It is whatever Big Brother says it is.

  • @kupper123
    @kupper123 5 років тому +7

    DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.
    DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.

  • @arandomdragon1534
    @arandomdragon1534 5 років тому +1

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

  • @mkauf84
    @mkauf84 5 років тому +2

    A Templin member who will remain nameless wanted pizza. Everyone was like "Marc just call them"