1984 Summary (George Orwell Book): The Most Powerful Way to Control OR Empower Humans Is Language 👁️

This is a book summary of 1984 by George Orwell.
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📚 CHAPTERS
0:00 - Introduction
1:59 - Top 3 Lessons
2:44 - 1. Language is the most powerful way to control or empower people.
4:54 - 2. Freedom is being able to say what's true, what you think & make your own choices.
7:38 - 3. Totalitarian governments win when they gaslight us into giving up our individuality.
📚 DESCRIPTION
1984 is the story of a man questioning the system that keeps his futuristic but dystopian society afloat and the chaos that quickly ensues once he gives in to his natural curiosity and desire to be free.
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[@annamaedevlin1713]

I wonder how George would dissect the world today?

[@getto7428]

One of the most important summaries of one of the most important books! Thanks guys!

[@FourMinuteBooks]

Glad you like it, worked really hard on this one!

[@bethnorris1361]

We used to think 1984 was fiction...

[@stxney777]

Fair, but with wars and taking over lands being the main thing consistent in our history, I'm surprised we haven't heard more revelations like 1984.

[@stxney777]

Aside from Twitter's Conspiracy theorist.

[@FourMinuteBooks]

Can you elaborate?

[@FourMinuteBooks]

The part about "We just won against Oceania!" "Oceania have always been our dearest allies!" definitely rings way too true. Too many spins on everything these days.

[@saiyidzaidi4892]

i have this book and ead it --

[@FourMinuteBooks]

Cool!

[@lowellcalavera6045]

Your whole 4 minute book thing is stupid, and minimizes the joy of reading.