When he casually drops some flooring truth that makes you pause the video "How's a brotha gonna know he exist if all he be is what the government TELLS him he be?"
this book deeply disturbed me, my heart broke and my soul died when Winston begged O'Brien to punish Julia, I don't think I can see love or life the same ever again
Had to read this for school. There was a good chunk where I was just so bored. As soon as he got the note that said "I love you," it was like an alarm clock. The book was so interesting from that point on.
Me too, for me it was that sudden change in pace where you not only realize Winston might not be alone in his way of thinking and his new mission is to meet this new co-conspirator, but also that he also might experience real genuine love, a raw human emotion that is stripped away from society
I love how you addressed that the novel is a critique of Totalitarianism as a whole, not just throwing shade at Communism and Capitalism, but at both of them.
@DJDiskmachine Weird. Almost like Stalin wasn't really a leftist, or as Orwell put it in Homage to Catalonia, "The communists stood not upon the extreme left, but upon the extreme right." Totalitarianism or authoritarianism isnt the same as communism or socialism or even fascism. In Robert Paxtons Five Stages of Fadcism, stage 5 is "entropy," where the regime gets increasingly radical or settles into authoritarian rule. Communism and Socialism are economic modes of production, whereas things like democracy, republicanism, and totalitarianism are governing styles. Authoritarianism and totalitarianism are not unique to fascism, but they are heavily featured in it. Even Vladamir Lenin himself was against Stalin taking over. Stalinism was not "true" communism, that is a stateless, moneyless, classless society in which the means of production are collectively owned by the people, but rather a bastardization of communist principles & revolutionary thought. Though this is a common sentiment among leftist thinkers, it will inevitably be met with "no true scotsman" accusations and dismissed out of hand a nothing but a logical fallacy to reconcile cognitive dissonance.
I've just finished this book and bloody hell this book is horrifying. Its like if the Soviet Union and Nazis had a love child blessed by Satan. Its absolutely heartbreaking how brutal it is. It rips hope and optimism out of your very thoughts as you read. The world and lore is so rich and detailed that its hard to not imagine what life would be like as Winston. You feel trapped just like him. The rat scene was unbearable, as I imagined the same thing but with spiders (which is my personal phobia). Winston's childhood anecdotes too about his mother are so depressing and shameful to read. I've never had a reading experience like this at all. This is honestly the greatest book I think I've ever read.
I agree with you, I was reading that book more than 20 years ago, and I was in awe, but there is one catch, I guess sign which Orwell put for readers to know that it is only a warning... The first sentence in the book... I forgot the exact sentence but it was something like " Clocks were striking 13 times, it was 13th hour"...something like that... Well, no clock is striking 13 times...
@@ozymandiasultor9480 'It was a cold bright day in November, and the clocks were striking Thirteen.' In the world of the book they have new clocks which are analogue but with Twenty-Four hours I think.
@@leonmayne797 I don't think it is mentioned anywhere that they have new clocks, I think that "the clocks were striking thirteen" is just one smart way for Orwell to say that it is a fantasy world. But, it is interesting that such clockes really existed. I had one such, with numbers from one to 24, Russian watch.
The part where O'Brian uses the rat in the cage is so vile. This book is a rollercoaster. The beginning was slow and dry then after he gets the note from Julia it's just one event after another after another and you end up reading nearly the entire book in one afternoon.
While it wasn't a bad analysis, I do have to point out one glaring flaw: Doublethink is NOT about believing something is false, while denying that it is a lie. Doublethink is about believing multiple things that are false, observing that some of them are mutually exclusive (that if one is true, the other one cannot be), and then deciding to believe both are true anyway. VERY important distinction. Believing in something false and denying that it's false... are sort of the same thing. Believing in two conflicting ideas that cannot coexist and yet insisting that both are true... THAT's doublethink. I must confess disappointment in the lack of mention of Newspeak, 2 Minute Hate, the use of Caricature propaganda, and the perpetual war used to suppress thought, as well... but I understand ya'll are busy. The entire book isn't an examination of what would happen if people gave up their individuality, but what would happen if people indulged in cognitive dissonance en masse (which would result in loss of individuality, among other things).
+Kire Du'Hai "Believing in something false and denying that it's false" - that to me is the definition of cognitive dissonance, hence double think. One negates the other.Denying something that is false is double think, false and true can't co-exist. If you are denying something is false you are saying it is true, though in reality you know it to be false. "some of them are mutually exclusive" - no, ALL of them are mutually exclusive, you can't have something that is true and false at the same time, unless you are a maniacal relativist to the core.
+Bohn Baratheon 2+2=5 is the book's example of doublethink. You know that 2+2 is actually equal to 4, but under certain circumstances, you might be required to accept that 2+2=5. Doublethink is the ability to hold these two beliefs at the same time and see no problem with it.
Agent Smidt No idea what you're talking about. If you believe in something that is false, you are already denying that it is false. Otherwise you would not believe in it. There's a word for that: Confabulation. It's self-deception. If you don't believe in something that is false, but deny that is false, there's already a word for that, too: Lying. However, if you believe in two ideas that cancel each other out (i.e. believing that 2+2=4 AND that 2+2=47, because both cannot be true), then that is doublethink. It's the forced belief in something that is logically inconsistent - a sort of continuous self-deception. It's not complicated.
mine did too when a classmate told her about it, she said i rather ya understand as much as possible than not understand anything so here. just know you're letting someone think for you
So what you're saying here..is it's just as good as the Sinner album performed by Drowning Pool..as that's how lead vocalist ..ended up in a early grave.
This is legitimately the best notes on this book that I have seen so far. Sparky Sweets PHD understands the material better than most notes AND has an amazing sense of humor.
It is far from the best "notes", there are books written about that book, and there are dozens of better explanations here on youtube, but I admit that this might be the funniest explanation, with that slang used to explain the book.
This is one of the most philosophical, fascinating books I’ve ever read. Winston’s and O’Brien’s conversations in the third section of the book are extremely thought provoking.
I love this book because it's so relevant for being very old! And doublethink is still a relevant problem. It's used today to push ideology on people, which is terrible but something that won't exactly go away.
Its not even that ancient babe 💀it’s only 74 years old. Only George says 1984 will take place 39 years from now particularly. 🗿 So your comment is fucking based. Hey I time traveled and I’m from the year 2023 2016er.
+Brandon Shaffer it wasn't the book itself either. My teacher that had it read it in our class compared the book to the real world and how this world is heading toward a dystopia like that because of past real world events
A book that deals with that pretty well is "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. It was how our society could easily be nudged toward a world much like 1984 due to fear of terrorism, taking advantage of technology, and thirst for power by those in charge. It was a very unsettling book.
Huh the shit has already happened. Maybe not in totality but there are bits here and there and if you look at other countries, it more or less is already in place.
I'm swedish and I love this dude breaking things down for me, 1984 is an interesting book! The vids on the Hobbit and LOTR helped me alot in my J.R.R. Tolkien analysis work for school! You the man!
dude this is a beautiful retelling of 1984 and what it amounts to. thank you so much for giving this to the thug life kids out there who haven't gotten educated right. this book means a lot to me personally, and i think it speaks very heavily on the condition we are in right now as a species. the gratitude i want to submit to you is beyond recognition.
I thought I'd check out some of your videos to see if this was just a joke, but you present it very cleverly and with excellent insight. Nice work good sir, I tip my hat.
lovely analysis. I am always annoyed when people reduce the big brother to surveillance. This analysis didn´t, so thumbs up. "Big brother" is brain washing every single person, but actually has only a 1/3 of the people, the outer party and maybe the inner party, under some short of technocratic surveillance (TVs with camera). The main control that the big brother is acting it out is by keeping people stupid (2/3 off the population) and looking for proper use of doublethink and new speak for the other third. Then there is the element of denunciating friends and even family, but again: Limited to the party members, a 1/3 of the population. Given that system of double think and denunciating, technical surveillance plays a very minor role even for the party members. The real big brother award shouldn´t go to a spying cooperation - it should go to media outlets that are f*cking about with the truth and brainwashing the people to be so stupid that they are no risk for system.
The "PC police" aren't anything like that. They're just people that are looking for more thoughtfulness and respect in our everyday interactions with each other
+Mehmet Soylu Sure, why not Mehmet, insult the guy ! I mean hey, it's only been eight months since CVC wrote this comment. Really man, haven't you got anything more positive to do with your obviously ample time ?
I do think this is probably the thinnest discussion I've seen you do, but in fairness, this is probably the thickest text I've seen you do. Some of the one-liners in 1984 have more layers of meaning to them than an introductory textbook on philosophy.
I'm absolutely in love with this series. Especially your analysis. My students laugh, getting a different understanding of books they read, and see they aren't the only one's and I'm not a completely torturous teacher. Thank you!!
Take what the government did in the 1984 novel and apply that to what the corporate interests are doing to America right now... Thanks for getting this discussion rolling Thug Notes!
This comment aged pretty well. I mean since the Jan.6 Insurrection. I think this shit is going to happen someday and I rather escape to a foreign country like South Africa.
You absolutely understand exactly what this book is, means, and its relationship to politics of its era..... And every era since or before! I really admire you
This book makes me think of north Korea. I wondered why they thought their leader was a god and thought it was crazy they even believed any of the crazy things their government told them. Just like in the book 1984 if a person is tortured and brainwashed enough people will believe anything. How sad.
The funny thing is that's how North Koreans think of most other countries. Like the United States. I wonder why. There can't be any truth to that. No...
I don't think many of them do believe that. I've seen survivors who escaped North Korea talk about their brutal experiences. They had to cross a frozen lake at night, knowing that if the armed guards caught them they would be shot on sight. People just have to say they believe those things in order to survive.
I love Thug Notes, keep making great videos. But there was one very important thing you left out. The reason that made room 101 so terrifying was that Big Brother personalized each torture method. Winston had a fear of rats, that's why they forced a cage of rats near his face. Look out for details like that for future episodes! :)
Awww shit. The Room 101 scene wasn't funny in the slightest, but seeing it transformed from a wailing plea to "DO IT TO MY HO!" is pretty much the funniest shit ever :')
I'm a high school English teacher from Sanger, California, and I'm always supportive of innovative and relevant ways to bring content to students. This is both hilarious and very informative. You've really started something. KEEP GOING. Also, please do Lord of the Flies, since I'll be teaching it later this year. I DEFINITELY have to show my students these videos.
"How's a brotha gonna know he exist if all he be is what the government TELLS him he be?" Literally the microcosm of political parties in today's society. People would rather "be" a Republican or Democrat and get spoonfed the "truth" from their party leaders rather than think for themselves. The government now TELLS you what you are supposed to think and be.
I just finished this book and was depressed as hell, then I watched your video and my spirits are up! I mean, I'm still aware of the message of the book but that summary was funny presented :)
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos... I ask one little request... My ex used to know only one stupid book and lorded it over me thru our horrible relationship. This book Atlas shrugged is my nemesis, please break it down for me, so I can school this hater. You would be my hero. Please keep doing what you are doing.... 😘
So what about Warhammer 40k and the chaos gods? - Entire war would please Khorne. - Julia and Winston's romance would please Slaneesh. - Ignorance is Strength is what Tzeentch hates (plus less posession to God of Chaos). - Nurgle is the entire Oceanian and possible three power's society (Rot and Disease). Unfortunately, Imperium of Men is the closest thing to Good Guys in that universe.
i literally just finished an essay on 1984 and realized i could have done just as good from watching this 4 minute video and maybe 20 minute of research. thats several hours i wont get back.
I was supposed to read this book for school but procrastinated too much even tho it actually looked interesting and I may actually read it later on. Best book summary video ever
Consider the books he is discussing. They are all books usually read in highschool. There are many people who get segregated (for lack of a better term) on the assumption that they are not intelligent. Very often these assumptions are based off of the culture they identify with. While he might be parodying one such academically ostracized group I think he is doing a great service by picking up those unjustly swept aside simply because of their cultural up bringing. For some people the manner in which he is speaking is more articulate and more approachable then the way that their teacher's communicate. I believe this is intentional and he is trying to help those forgotten by the system in highschool develop their intelligence. Thank you sir.
Animal Farm is how playas win the Game. 1984 is how playas stay at the top. And when Orwell is talking about Stalin in Animal Farm, he's talking about English socialism and the US in 1984. His 1984 was a sarcastic answer to The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham, an old Trotskyite homie of Orwell that went all Republican and shit.. As for Winston Smith, welcome to the LAPD bitch. Thug Life.
I'd love to see something like Thug Notes, but for stoners. Like people who got really high before watching V for Vendetta and believed they could start a political revolution or something.
OMGF it's 2021 and this has only just now been recommended to me on my newsfeed. Honestly never had a better short review of 1984 ever. Fam, this shit is lit.
When he casually drops some flooring truth that makes you pause the video
"How's a brotha gonna know he exist if all he be is what the government TELLS him he be?"
One could just float right off the ground like a soap bubble if the government wanted them too.
And how will you know what is true, when every possible source is rewritten?
3 years later this relates to America more than ever, people are ideologically posses and no longer have individuality in their life’s
Thats a very thick motif in the book...
"If you vote for Trump, you ain't black!" - Biden. Telling people what they are.
this book deeply disturbed me, my heart broke and my soul died when Winston begged O'Brien to punish Julia, I don't think I can see love or life the same ever again
So what happened ? Did you see love or life the same ever again massive cliff hanger
We need to know OP. Are you all alone in the social distancing period?
@@programSense I've been practicing for this my whole life
Holy shit he responded?! After 3 years too...impressive!
Nah brother that wasnt love that was some camus the stranger forced relationship..Keep it real ,stay inside
This video is doubleplus good
video doubleplus unbad
^ I see wht you did there.
+Noah Terrell
There is no such thing as unbad. Bad = ungood. Unbad= good.
+Honest Happy Hater That newspeak shit makes me sick.
+Honest Happy Hater I was just about to say. Syme even went over that in the book.
Had to read this for school. There was a good chunk where I was just so bored. As soon as he got the note that said "I love you," it was like an alarm clock. The book was so interesting from that point on.
You've got a pretty based school.
Me too, for me it was that sudden change in pace where you not only realize Winston might not be alone in his way of thinking and his new mission is to meet this new co-conspirator, but also that he also might experience real genuine love, a raw human emotion that is stripped away from society
@@loucypher1060 im only in 8th grade I read it for ar but I think we get to read it as a class, which will be very hype.
Felt my own heart skip a beat like she handed it to me 😂
I love how you addressed that the novel is a critique of Totalitarianism as a whole, not just throwing shade at Communism and Capitalism, but at both of them.
Capitalism?
I was going to say. Some of this sounds like modern day American policing.
At least the torture and false confessions. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Dapryoryes, Orwell was critiquing Stalin from the left. I know, mind blowing isn't it?
@DJDiskmachine Weird. Almost like Stalin wasn't really a leftist, or as Orwell put it in Homage to Catalonia, "The communists stood not upon the extreme left, but upon the extreme right."
Totalitarianism or authoritarianism isnt the same as communism or socialism or even fascism. In Robert Paxtons Five Stages of Fadcism, stage 5 is "entropy," where the regime gets increasingly radical or settles into authoritarian rule. Communism and Socialism are economic modes of production, whereas things like democracy, republicanism, and totalitarianism are governing styles. Authoritarianism and totalitarianism are not unique to fascism, but they are heavily featured in it.
Even Vladamir Lenin himself was against Stalin taking over. Stalinism was not "true" communism, that is a stateless, moneyless, classless society in which the means of production are collectively owned by the people, but rather a bastardization of communist principles & revolutionary thought. Though this is a common sentiment among leftist thinkers, it will inevitably be met with "no true scotsman" accusations and dismissed out of hand a nothing but a logical fallacy to reconcile cognitive dissonance.
@@DJDiskmachine Orwell himself is a socialist
I've just finished this book and bloody hell this book is horrifying. Its like if the Soviet Union and Nazis had a love child blessed by Satan. Its absolutely heartbreaking how brutal it is. It rips hope and optimism out of your very thoughts as you read. The world and lore is so rich and detailed that its hard to not imagine what life would be like as Winston. You feel trapped just like him. The rat scene was unbearable, as I imagined the same thing but with spiders (which is my personal phobia). Winston's childhood anecdotes too about his mother are so depressing and shameful to read. I've never had a reading experience like this at all. This is honestly the greatest book I think I've ever read.
I agree with you, I was reading that book more than 20 years ago, and I was in awe, but there is one catch, I guess sign which Orwell put for readers to know that it is only a warning... The first sentence in the book... I forgot the exact sentence but it was something like " Clocks were striking 13 times, it was 13th hour"...something like that... Well, no clock is striking 13 times...
@@ozymandiasultor9480 'It was a cold bright day in November, and the clocks were striking Thirteen.' In the world of the book they have new clocks which are analogue but with Twenty-Four hours I think.
@@leonmayne797
I don't think it is mentioned anywhere that they have new clocks, I think that "the clocks were striking thirteen" is just one smart way for Orwell to say that it is a fantasy world.
But, it is interesting that such clockes really existed. I had one such, with numbers from one to 24, Russian watch.
@rohamshirchi7736 which country is becoming an Islamic Republic other than a few hard-line ME nations?
Well dang!
The part where O'Brian uses the rat in the cage is so vile. This book is a rollercoaster. The beginning was slow and dry then after he gets the note from Julia it's just one event after another after another and you end up reading nearly the entire book in one afternoon.
Apart from "the Book"
The scene is doubleplusungood even! Makes you goodthink and bellyfeel bb.
While it wasn't a bad analysis, I do have to point out one glaring flaw:
Doublethink is NOT about believing something is false, while denying that it is a lie.
Doublethink is about believing multiple things that are false, observing that some of them are mutually exclusive (that if one is true, the other one cannot be), and then deciding to believe both are true anyway.
VERY important distinction.
Believing in something false and denying that it's false... are sort of the same thing.
Believing in two conflicting ideas that cannot coexist and yet insisting that both are true... THAT's doublethink.
I must confess disappointment in the lack of mention of Newspeak, 2 Minute Hate, the use of Caricature propaganda, and the perpetual war used to suppress thought, as well... but I understand ya'll are busy.
The entire book isn't an examination of what would happen if people gave up their individuality, but what would happen if people indulged in cognitive dissonance en masse (which would result in loss of individuality, among other things).
Can you explain doublethink in simpler words? My little brain cannot comprehend what you just said lol. Thank you.
+Kire Du'Hai "Believing in something false and denying that it's false" - that to me is the definition of cognitive dissonance, hence double think. One negates the other.Denying something that is false is double think, false and true can't co-exist. If you are denying something is false you are saying it is true, though in reality you know it to be false. "some of them are mutually exclusive" - no, ALL of them are mutually exclusive, you can't have something that is true and false at the same time, unless you are a maniacal relativist to the core.
+Bohn Baratheon 2+2=5 is the book's example of doublethink. You know that 2+2 is actually equal to 4, but under certain circumstances, you might be required to accept that 2+2=5. Doublethink is the ability to hold these two beliefs at the same time and see no problem with it.
Phygar1 Ahh alright okay, thank you! Much simpler for me haha
Agent Smidt
No idea what you're talking about.
If you believe in something that is false, you are already denying that it is false. Otherwise you would not believe in it. There's a word for that: Confabulation. It's self-deception.
If you don't believe in something that is false, but deny that is false, there's already a word for that, too: Lying.
However, if you believe in two ideas that cancel each other out (i.e. believing that 2+2=4 AND that 2+2=47, because both cannot be true), then that is doublethink.
It's the forced belief in something that is logically inconsistent - a sort of continuous self-deception.
It's not complicated.
my English teacher showed this to us....
Your English teacher be dope, shawty.
mine did too when a classmate told her about it, she said i rather ya understand as much as possible than not understand anything so here. just know you're letting someone think for you
that teacher gotta b some kind of dope man
Dang, that's the dopest way she could've brought it to ya dawg.
yeah i had my 8th grade teacher show me an episode of thug notes. forgot what book it was on tho
2+2=5!
+WangWei中国 explain
SILTOR CAME read the book and you'll understand :)
+Devin Sloane
/watch?v=o_eSwq1ewsU
Tell me Devin; how many lights do you see?
+Mister Bones you just wasted 4 minutes of my life
Killersnake1233
How's that? It's perfectly relevant, and a great scene.
1984. A book so good, it killed the author.
So what you're saying here..is it's just as good as the Sinner album performed by Drowning Pool..as that's how lead vocalist ..ended up in a early grave.
Ryan Davies dude that's cold
How did the author die?
@@davidcobb2682 He was killed by the book, duhhhhh. Ry Man just stated that bro.
The Government made him forget he wrote the book and brainwashed him
This is legitimately the best notes on this book that I have seen so far. Sparky Sweets PHD understands the material better than most notes AND has an amazing sense of humor.
It is far from the best "notes", there are books written about that book, and there are dozens of better explanations here on youtube, but I admit that this might be the funniest explanation, with that slang used to explain the book.
This is one of the most philosophical, fascinating books I’ve ever read. Winston’s and O’Brien’s conversations in the third section of the book are extremely thought provoking.
I love this book because it's so relevant for being very old! And doublethink is still a relevant problem. It's used today to push ideology on people, which is terrible but something that won't exactly go away.
In reality 67 years is not such a long time.
Its not even that ancient babe 💀it’s only 74 years old. Only George says 1984 will take place 39 years from now particularly. 🗿 So your comment is fucking based.
Hey I time traveled and I’m from the year 2023 2016er.
It happens in state government organisations all the time.
*after reading 1984*
You start to question society and humanity itself and realize that this book relates to many aspects if everyday life :/
Creepy
Honestly same #boi
KayleighA agree
Check out Walden ;)
I’m questioning why I️ don’t have your number yet lol
Lord of the Flies too
Reading this book fucked me up.
same
I read this, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 all in the same year of high school. I straight up OD'd on dystopian fiction.
+Brandon Shaffer it wasn't the book itself either. My teacher that had it read it in our class compared the book to the real world and how this world is heading toward a dystopia like that because of past real world events
A book that deals with that pretty well is "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. It was how our society could easily be nudged toward a world much like 1984 due to fear of terrorism, taking advantage of technology, and thirst for power by those in charge. It was a very unsettling book.
Huh the shit has already happened. Maybe not in totality but there are bits here and there and if you look at other countries, it more or less is already in place.
I'm swedish and I love this dude breaking things down for me, 1984 is an interesting book! The vids on the Hobbit and LOTR helped me alot in my J.R.R. Tolkien analysis work for school! You the man!
good for you friend. i love his work too
My english teacher showed this to us in class. I am now subscribed.
Lucky. I can't get my teacher to put this up on the projector..
0:47 This should be a meme.
hell yeah
Hell yeah
It is
HELL YEAH!!
Hell yeah
dude this is a beautiful retelling of 1984 and what it amounts to.
thank you so much for giving this to the thug life kids out there who haven't gotten educated right. this book means a lot to me personally, and i think it speaks very heavily on the condition we are in right now as a species.
the gratitude i want to submit to you is beyond recognition.
no problem
I thought I'd check out some of your videos to see if this was just a joke, but you present it very cleverly and with excellent insight. Nice work good sir, I tip my hat.
I love the upside down American flag he has there..
I wanted to upvote someone who pointed that out but couldn't find it for some reason.
+Tol Hydra
Was thinking the same thing :)
lovely analysis. I am always annoyed when people reduce the big brother to surveillance. This analysis didn´t, so thumbs up.
"Big brother" is brain washing every single person, but actually has only a 1/3 of the people, the outer party and maybe the inner party, under some short of technocratic surveillance (TVs with camera). The main control that the big brother is acting it out is by keeping people stupid (2/3 off the population) and looking for proper use of doublethink and new speak for the other third. Then there is the element of denunciating friends and even family, but again: Limited to the party members, a 1/3 of the population. Given that system of double think and denunciating, technical surveillance plays a very minor role even for the party members.
The real big brother award shouldn´t go to a spying cooperation - it should go to media outlets that are f*cking about with the truth and brainwashing the people to be so stupid that they are no risk for system.
The PC thought police are making all this a reality right now.
The "PC police" aren't anything like that. They're just people that are looking for more thoughtfulness and respect in our everyday interactions with each other
Oh my gosh - LOVE. IT.
I was a 19th Century British Lit major. Your vids are just priceless. I call them "Cliffs Note from The Hood."
Thanks Sparky!
"Hows a brotha gona know he exsists if all he be is what the government tells him he be?" Best essay prompt ever
They actually made a sequel called 2020
was looking for this gold
How?
The Left is Big Brother.
@@GGray27 How do I find it?
How do I find the sequel?
Orwell is da real OG!
actually he's a G.O XD
codename617 niiiiice!
I think I learned more about 1984 from this video, then I did in all 3 years of HS English.
+Mehmet Soylu
Sure, why not Mehmet, insult the guy !
I mean hey, it's only been eight months since CVC wrote this comment.
Really man, haven't you got anything more positive to do with your obviously ample time ?
I do think this is probably the thinnest discussion I've seen you do, but in fairness, this is probably the thickest text I've seen you do. Some of the one-liners in 1984 have more layers of meaning to them than an introductory textbook on philosophy.
I'm absolutely in love with this series. Especially your analysis. My students laugh, getting a different understanding of books they read, and see they aren't the only one's and I'm not a completely torturous teacher. Thank you!!
I love this series! Forgive me if you've already done it but if not, please do The Dark Knight Returns!
Just found you through TGWTG, these are absolutely brilliant! I cracked up and got me some education. Instant sub
Mad subs. Made me think dawg.
Take what the government did in the 1984 novel and apply that to what the corporate interests are doing to America right now...
Thanks for getting this discussion rolling Thug Notes!
Shit this comment aged well
This comment aged pretty well. I mean since the Jan.6 Insurrection. I think this shit is going to happen someday and I rather escape to a foreign country like South Africa.
You absolutely understand exactly what this book is, means, and its relationship to politics of its era..... And every era since or before!
I really admire you
Just two words to describe your channel, bro: AWE, SOME.
Cheers from Brazil.
This book makes me think of north Korea. I wondered why they thought their leader was a god and thought it was crazy they even believed any of the crazy things their government told them. Just like in the book 1984 if a person is tortured and brainwashed enough people will believe anything. How sad.
The funny thing is that's how North Koreans think of most other countries. Like the United States. I wonder why. There can't be any truth to that. No...
I don't think many of them do believe that. I've seen survivors who escaped North Korea talk about their brutal experiences. They had to cross a frozen lake at night, knowing that if the armed guards caught them they would be shot on sight. People just have to say they believe those things in order to survive.
I love Thug Notes, keep making great videos. But there was one very important thing you left out. The reason that made room 101 so terrifying was that Big Brother personalized each torture method. Winston had a fear of rats, that's why they forced a cage of rats near his face. Look out for details like that for future episodes! :)
I’m truly surprised at the lack of recent comments. We’re living it... he was off by 37 years.
You have no idea how much these videos have helped me throughout the years
This was the greatest thing I’ve seen in so long!!! Lol 😂 omg thank you for existing! 😂
I am studying this book for English and honestly you helped so much thank you!!
Awww shit. The Room 101 scene wasn't funny in the slightest, but seeing it transformed from a wailing plea to "DO IT TO MY HO!" is pretty much the funniest shit ever :')
I'm a high school English teacher from Sanger, California, and I'm always supportive of innovative and relevant ways to bring content to students. This is both hilarious and very informative. You've really started something. KEEP GOING. Also, please do Lord of the Flies, since I'll be teaching it later this year. I DEFINITELY have to show my students these videos.
I am so glad I found this channel. You guys are fantastic, and make me want to re-read the classics. Totally worth the sub.
This was an actually really good review..
I took an ar test on this book...AND ACED IT.
You're my hero, Sparky Sweets!
"How's a brotha gonna know he exist if all he be is what the government TELLS him he be?"
Literally the microcosm of political parties in today's society. People would rather "be" a Republican or Democrat and get spoonfed the "truth" from their party leaders rather than think for themselves. The government now TELLS you what you are supposed to think and be.
Thats whats scary about it. You also realize why uncle unibomber Ted tried his best to distance himself to it all.
We are currently LIVING 1984!
This... is amazing. Why did I not know about this channel before? Instant subscription! HEEEELL YEAH!
It's 2024, and I feel like I'm living in 1984
I just finished this book and was depressed as hell, then I watched your video and my spirits are up! I mean, I'm still aware of the message of the book but that summary was funny presented :)
I have to clap, man. This is one of the best analysis on 1984.
This video quality is as if it was made in 2024
honestly? most entertaining review i have ever seen with a brief overview of the content. totally subscribed!
1:10 "baaaaaaaaaam, da 5-O come bustin' through his door and bagged him and his homegirl" lol i love this channel
George Orwell likes to write books with depressing endings.
C'est la vie
That's life
can you please do the communist manifesto??
Just stumbled in to this and WOW this was AMAZING!
I really liked the format. I liked and subbed. Keep up the hard work.
When I read the “do it to Julia” part of the book had me rolling
"Do it to Julia, Not meeee!"
Brother you are good.
Bat5hade double plus good.... Oh shit!! They already got me!!
double think = alternative facts
holy shit... this is really happening!
Double-thinking is very different from "alternative facts," but, sure -- pop off.
@@fruitygarlic3601 Yes, but alternative facts are just another way of saying "lies"
I still come back to these 🐐
Man, theres a you tube channel for every interest in here. Love it
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos... I ask one little request... My ex used to know only one stupid book and lorded it over me thru our horrible relationship. This book Atlas shrugged is my nemesis, please break it down for me, so I can school this hater. You would be my hero. Please keep doing what you are doing.... 😘
he did do atlas shrugged a while ago lol
HAHA. Atlas Shrugged. No wonder she's an ex.
that's the game that bioshock is based on.
Those who dislike this are members of the Party!
Inner party or outer party?
Ok let me go read this book.
*subbed*
This has got to be the best thing I've seen in a long. long. time.
You go man.
I love how Winston and Julia are depicted wearing real-life 1984 fashion lmao
"goldstein's manifesto"
hmm...
+Carson Troeh oy vey
+Carson Troeh Cereal Killer's name from.
So what about Warhammer 40k and the chaos gods?
- Entire war would please Khorne.
- Julia and Winston's romance would please Slaneesh.
- Ignorance is Strength is what Tzeentch hates (plus less posession to God of Chaos).
- Nurgle is the entire Oceanian and possible three power's society (Rot and Disease).
Unfortunately, Imperium of Men is the closest thing to Good Guys in that universe.
lol good guys there are no good guys in 40k id say tau but they're space commies.
derpy derp Warhammer 40k was an 80's clusterfuck of fun that turned into some kind of social commentary about the human condition.
The Outsiders-S.E. Hinton
There's not really much to that book...
It's good but has nowhere near the thematic complexity.
i literally just finished an essay on 1984 and realized i could have done just as good from watching this 4 minute video and maybe 20 minute of research. thats several hours i wont get back.
Sir, you are a masterpiece on your own.
Never, ever stop.
This is so much funnier if you've read the book especially because it's over 300 pages of narrative and he flies through it in minutes XD
Do Fountain Head or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Pleased do atlas shrugged
I second that motion.
holy shit I made this comment 7 years ago lol
i just finished reading it and oh my gosh this is the best summary ive ever heard LMAO
Absolutely scrumptious review!
the only reason I read 1984, Animal Farm and similar type of books is because of thug notes
damn this was deep ...
This book was about England. Not USSR.
I was supposed to read this book for school but procrastinated too much even tho it actually looked interesting and I may actually read it later on. Best book summary video ever
Reviews are always the best my dude
Orwell got the title wrong.
He should have called it 2020.
😂😂😂
Consider the books he is discussing. They are all books usually read in highschool. There are many people who get segregated (for lack of a better term) on the assumption that they are not intelligent. Very often these assumptions are based off of the culture they identify with. While he might be parodying one such academically ostracized group I think he is doing a great service by picking up those unjustly swept aside simply because of their cultural up bringing. For some people the manner in which he is speaking is more articulate and more approachable then the way that their teacher's communicate. I believe this is intentional and he is trying to help those forgotten by the system in highschool develop their intelligence. Thank you sir.
Animal Farm is how playas win the Game. 1984 is how playas stay at the top. And when Orwell is talking about Stalin in Animal Farm, he's talking about English socialism and the US in 1984. His 1984 was a sarcastic answer to The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham, an old Trotskyite homie of Orwell that went all Republican and shit..
As for Winston Smith, welcome to the LAPD bitch. Thug Life.
this channel is my new favorite thing on the internet
I absolutely love this channel! You rock, man!
I'd love to see something like Thug Notes, but for stoners. Like people who got really high before watching V for Vendetta and believed they could start a political revolution or something.
These Thug Notes could apply to the US Government and the NSA.
Actually not as bad as I expected it t be ;-) It was actually a very good critique.
Kerry Hixon I think all of his book reviews are very good.
1984 -> modern China (eastern world)
Brave new world -> modern West world
OMGF it's 2021 and this has only just now been recommended to me on my newsfeed. Honestly never had a better short review of 1984 ever. Fam, this shit is lit.
Greetings, my man!
Absolutely brilliant work.
Keep these coming yo!
I got a A on a test cuz of this video
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Scotland 2024
What up blood !
I love this! Man this guy is informative and funny so he got me listen! I have to share this with my colleagues.
Watched this again in November 2016 in US. Professor Sweets is a precog. Double-think is in full effect.