The following video explains Orwell’s book, it will enable listeners to compare 2021 US with Orwell’s description of life under totalitarian rule. You will find that we are there, not that it won’t become worse:
Highlights from the video:
Highlights from 1984 video [bracketed statements and emboldening are mine]:
- “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will at first be a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.” [Orwell wrote in mid 20th century]
- Orwell’s fictional work, 1984, reflects the political realities of many nations, past and present
- Two people who lived under communist rule stated how accurate Orwell’s book described their situations
- This video explores the similarities between Orwell’s book and the totalitarian systems of the 20th century – listeners will see that many of the traits of totalitarianism are re emerging today
- The greatest point to realize as you view the video, is that totalitarian systems rely on mass support; therefore, it is critical that you do not support them [political correctness is all about getting people to be part of the herd or pay a consequence like president Trump paid for defying it]
- Totalitarianism is a political system whereby a centralized state apparatus attempts to control virtually all aspects of life
- In the 20th century, communism and fascism provided the ideological framework for this type of rule
- Both used force and propaganda to attain power, crush economic and civil liberties, smother culture, partake in mass-surveillance, and terrorize the citizenry with psychological warfare, and eventually with mass-imprisonment and mass-murder
- Orwell was thinking of Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s communist Russia
- He noted that the two regimes started at opposite ends but were evolving towards the same system – a form of oligarchical collectivism [Marxism is all about the collective at the expense of the individual]
- They maintained control of the populace via manufactured fear – via chaos and confusion [pandemic controls and vaccinations have been similarly used of late]
- Constant surveillance of the populace enabled greater control; in addition it created paranoia that further enabled control
- [The telescreen Orwell described in his book, which was a chief source of surveillance, is nothing compared to the tools our government employs: watch the movie Snowden and Eye in the Sky for glimpse of our much superior tech of the early 2000s]
- Each person watched everyone else [during the pandemic, we were encouraged to do so; I just heard today, that LA is considering denying people access to grocery stores if they fail to get vaccinated]
- Chief coping skills of the citizenry under totalitarian rule are lying and hypocrisy [many are currently practicing such things today in America to avoid the current pc thought police, doxing, cancelling, and other forms of punishment for nonconformance; for dissenting from the politically correct narrative and thinking for oneself]
- Fear, confusion and mental disorientation are widespread; mostly stimulated by the falsification of history and the negation of the concept of objective truth [last summer we witnessed a lot of removal of history regarding statutes; but it has been going on for some time regarding rewriting of history; also, truth is relative these days, everyone has his own version, and we like it because we don’t realize it is one of the tactics of the totalitarian state; furthermore, no one knows what to believe about the vaccines because so many officials have been caught in lies, so many have died from them…]
- In Orwell’s book, the ‘Ministry of Truth’ was the organization that falsified history [In Christianity, Christian Liberals started doing that around 1900, changing the definitions of words; new word meanings enabled them to deceive many people; if you carefully attend to bills drafted in congress, they do the same so they can get their agendas passes under deceptive titles, euphemistic titles, that are more acceptable to the masses of voters]
- Erasing history prohibits people from evaluating their status in terms of former generations; that is, no one can describe how much things have changed for the worse
- Additionally, without past truths, the values and rules of the totalitarian government cannot be contradicted or questioned
- [Marxism is opposed to Christianity (and religion in general) because biblical truth is opposed to them: the Bible believes in freedom of thought (one is given a choice between God’s truth and lies); worship of God over government; family; property ownership; one’s right to defend himself and his property…]
- That is, the party / state is always right [it cannot let another system exist simultaneously]
- Incessant psychological warfare causes the minds of the citizenry to be mentally disoriented; tools used in this warfare include: destroying belief in objective truth – incessant and intentionally confusing propaganda dissemination: conflicting reports, blatant lies, misinformation… are propagated in official reports and via the mass media 24-7-365
- The totalitarian state uses dogmas that are not to be questioned; these change every day. The dogmas are required because obedience to the state is required, that is measured via one’s adherence to state dogmas [think again, of what happens in US 2021, when one departs from the pc narrative; or did not take a vaccination; or went for a walk in the park when lockdown was on]
- Additionally, contradictions, hypocrisies and lies form the foundation of the totalitarian ideology
- For example, censoring information is called; ‘protecting the truth’ (several other examples are given, ones you’ve seen in real time)
- [Don’t Google, Facebook and Twitter rename their censoring protecting truth?]
- The state would have its citizens believe that up is down and vice versa, if that was required [and those who do not do such things are put in re-education camps, as in 2021 CCP]
- [It just occurred to me that the movie Matrix was set in a totalitarian society, and it was chiefly about the perils of dissenting]
- [The ‘thought police’ in our culture are not only people with official status, but your neighbor could be among them; anyone that shames one for dissenting from the pc narrative is one of the thought police; that is, the state approved, herd mentality must be adhered to, or you will be punished – that has been happening everywhere in America for some time and it is getting more oppressive by the month]
- In the battle between totalitarianism and freedom, no one can afford to stand on the sidelines
Featured Image: captured from the video