George Orwell's 1984, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 402
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Date: 2022-04-04
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froog
Stoned Ape Theory suggests that it was psychoactive plants that allowed us to begin creating words and using language, thereby facilitating the development of what we know today as human consciousness. Natural psychedelic substances such as Psylocibin and Dimethyltryptamine stimulate neuron pathways that we don't normally use when our primary instinct is survival, unlocking something within us that gives us a more intuitive understanding of nature and other living beings. I would posit that this theory also works in reverse: in the modern world we have lost touch with the insights that psychedelic plants gave us. We are far removed from nature and treat it with an almost soulless disregard. This is because for several generations, the powers that be have deemed that such plants should be illegal and have been ripping them out of the ground, burning them, throwing people who use them in prison and prohibiting the sale of them or use of them as medicines. Restricting people's access to natural substances that humans have always used as spiritual therapy means that we are losing the ability to communicate with nature and each other on that instinctive level. People who have never used psychedelic plants and are very firm that they never will because they're illegal and they make you crazy, etc. are usually the same people who are rooted very deeply in the matrix the modern world generates for us. It's not that they can't think outside the box, they just refuse to because everything in our western culture encourages the opposite of that. Every day we're told consume, consume, consume, but don't ask questions. So people just don't, and they're okay with that. I believe that all plant-based psychoactive medicines should be available for every adult to use at their own discretion. Society would be a very different place if everyone was regularly microdosing with mushrooms. Depression and anxiety are diseases caused by the artificial, forced environment that organic human beings are packed into far away from our natural roots and ambitions. This unease and malaise everyone feels in the 21st century can be cured.
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Stoned Ape Theory suggests that it was psychoactive plants that allowed us to begin creating words and using language, thereby facilitating the development of what we know today as human consciousness. Natural psychedelic substances such as Psylocibin and Dimethyltryptamine stimulate neuron pathways that we don't normally use when our primary instinct is survival, unlocking something within us that gives us a more intuitive understanding of nature and other living beings. I would posit that this theory also works in reverse: in the modern world we have lost touch with the insights that psychedelic plants gave us. We are far removed from nature and treat it with an almost soulless disregard. This is because for several generations, the powers that be have deemed that such plants should be illegal and have been ripping them out of the ground, burning them, throwing people who use them in prison and prohibiting the sale of them or use of them as medicines. Restricting people's access to natural substances that humans have always used as spiritual therapy means that we are losing the ability to communicate with nature and each other on that instinctive level. People who have never used psychedelic plants and are very firm that they never will because they're illegal and they make you crazy, etc. are usually the same people who are rooted very deeply in the matrix the modern world generates for us. It's not that they can't think outside the box, they just refuse to because everything in our western culture encourages the opposite of that. Every day we're told consume, consume, consume, but don't ask questions. So people just don't, and they're okay with that. I believe that all plant-based psychoactive medicines should be available for every adult to use at their own discretion. Society would be a very different place if everyone was regularly microdosing with mushrooms. Depression and anxiety are diseases caused by the artificial, forced environment that organic human beings are packed into far away from our natural roots and ambitions. This unease and malaise everyone feels in the 21st century can be cured.
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shen
we do not watch each other. corporations have monetized consumer data and woven it into the daily process of mundane activities, by either incentives or trickery. government too, and the latter will get into the game as the knowledge gets understood by the ancient system that can't keep up with tech.
I'd say the new totalitarian danger is fundamentally different than the one in the orwell book and what we call totalitarianism. it's slow, inevitable and progressive social engineering through the use of interactive technology. Companies have started influencing what the input will be by changing how we get fed data, for example. They realized that as soon as something is interactive, there is an update-able bias and such bias can be actively chosen and enforced. And it's done through so many hoops and underlying systems, and psychological tricks that you don't even realize it. My prediction is that the ads of the future will be able to trick you to support them, not with just flashy text that will work on the rules of average behaviour, but with displaying themselves in specific times where they would have the highest chance of generating the desired chemical reaction. In short, your being will be an essential part of the ad, like a parasitic relationship, it will be measured and tested against situations to craft a psychological enticement for you, based on your patterns.
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we do not watch each other. corporations have monetized consumer data and woven it into the daily process of mundane activities, by either incentives or trickery. government too, and the latter will get into the game as the knowledge gets understood by the ancient system that can't keep up with tech.
I'd say the new totalitarian danger is fundamentally different than the one in the orwell book and what we call totalitarianism. it's slow, inevitable and progressive social engineering through the use of interactive technology. Companies have started influencing what the input will be by changing how we get fed data, for example. They realized that as soon as something is interactive, there is an update-able bias and such bias can be actively chosen and enforced. And it's done through so many hoops and underlying systems, and psychological tricks that you don't even realize it. My prediction is that the ads of the future will be able to trick you to support them, not with just flashy text that will work on the rules of average behaviour, but with displaying themselves in specific times where they would have the highest chance of generating the desired chemical reaction. In short, your being will be an essential part of the ad, like a parasitic relationship, it will be measured and tested against situations to craft a psychological enticement for you, based on your patterns.
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LinuxDragon57
There is nothing about decreased privacy that leads to increased security. Besides, my tinfoil hat makes me prone to make decisions to safeguard as much of my privacy as possible.
Besides:
> -Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. -
I would argue that elements from both Huxley and Orwell exist in today's world.
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There is nothing about decreased privacy that leads to increased security. Besides, my tinfoil hat makes me prone to make decisions to safeguard as much of my privacy as possible.
Besides:
> -Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. -
I would argue that elements from both Huxley and Orwell exist in today's world.
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Secureteam55
National democratic social party, and fascism were both great friend, as in hitler and Mussolini, today the democratic socialist is the united front. This guy here humorously play a writer who dissect Orwell 1984, while overtly place Antifa call order In His video, mainly by superposing the call to violence - this machine kills fascist -. when now in 2020 we know dam well that the new fascist is the one denouncing centrist and moderate right as fascist, or better know as anything we stand against we will either by violence of shame will attack you, and this via propaganda of the PBS. this video is a chapter of the new gulag archipelago 21 century.
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National democratic social party, and fascism were both great friend, as in hitler and Mussolini, today the democratic socialist is the united front. This guy here humorously play a writer who dissect Orwell 1984, while overtly place Antifa call order In His video, mainly by superposing the call to violence - this machine kills fascist -. when now in 2020 we know dam well that the new fascist is the one denouncing centrist and moderate right as fascist, or better know as anything we stand against we will either by violence of shame will attack you, and this via propaganda of the PBS. this video is a chapter of the new gulag archipelago 21 century.
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Jimi
Not only is it not a criticism of Socialism, it is an ENDORSEMENT of it.
Meanwhile, the U. S. has a sitting Republican President that threatened to fire scientists if they didn't retroactively change their reports on weather to match his mistake, and a Democratic Party that is desperately trying to undermine the will of the people in their primary process.
Our Democracy is a curtain, and when you pull it back you see a Plutocracy
-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
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Not only is it not a criticism of Socialism, it is an ENDORSEMENT of it.
Meanwhile, the U. S. has a sitting Republican President that threatened to fire scientists if they didn't retroactively change their reports on weather to match his mistake, and a Democratic Party that is desperately trying to undermine the will of the people in their primary process.
Our Democracy is a curtain, and when you pull it back you see a Plutocracy
-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
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Tom
-Past is whatever the party chooses to make it? - Dems took Orwell's prediction to heart, literally rewriting history books. Social-media turned into social-credit-score in a single month (China. Think Big-Brother doesn't torture low-social-credit-scores? And what about those free-elections you brag about? Exactly how free and fair are they? Does anyone really believe Hillary received twice as many votes as Trump in California? Twice? What about Chicago? Or NY? Are those Blue states really that Blue or has there been tampering? Broward Co. poll-worker affidavits said ballot boxes were stuffed. Brag not.
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-Past is whatever the party chooses to make it? - Dems took Orwell's prediction to heart, literally rewriting history books. Social-media turned into social-credit-score in a single month (China. Think Big-Brother doesn't torture low-social-credit-scores? And what about those free-elections you brag about? Exactly how free and fair are they? Does anyone really believe Hillary received twice as many votes as Trump in California? Twice? What about Chicago? Or NY? Are those Blue states really that Blue or has there been tampering? Broward Co. poll-worker affidavits said ballot boxes were stuffed. Brag not.
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Tony
UK and USA has been a plutocracy. How do you not call that a totalitarian system? You need to be funded by the wealthy to even be considered for election before the average people can have any say in it.
The only gov that works are the one without government, where the essential things in life, even education is privatized. So you wouldn't have to be forced to waste your money on tax supporting ideology that are not only dubious in nature but are harmful to society.
Business is fair. You either buy it or leave it. No one is coercing you to do anything.
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UK and USA has been a plutocracy. How do you not call that a totalitarian system? You need to be funded by the wealthy to even be considered for election before the average people can have any say in it.
The only gov that works are the one without government, where the essential things in life, even education is privatized. So you wouldn't have to be forced to waste your money on tax supporting ideology that are not only dubious in nature but are harmful to society.
Business is fair. You either buy it or leave it. No one is coercing you to do anything.
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alexandra
Wow this is my 3rd time watching this, I never read the book, I read brave new world but it wasn-t til now that I actually am remembering it. The first two times it just didn-t stick and I would forget the events but new it had surveillance and a corrupt government
And that the near future is a dystopia.
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Wow this is my 3rd time watching this, I never read the book, I read brave new world but it wasn-t til now that I actually am remembering it. The first two times it just didn-t stick and I would forget the events but new it had surveillance and a corrupt government
And that the near future is a dystopia.
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education
In today-s world you are either ruled by a totalitarian regime some what like the 1984 or you are ruled by your wants and desires which are worked by media, through targeting your subconscious in my opinion true freedom is only possible when you remember yourself as yourself
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In today-s world you are either ruled by a totalitarian regime some what like the 1984 or you are ruled by your wants and desires which are worked by media, through targeting your subconscious in my opinion true freedom is only possible when you remember yourself as yourself
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Tom
It's feels like you are speaking to a class of 6th grades, desparately trying to keep their attention from one second to the next (speaking at an accelerated pace. Relax. Slow it down. Edit. The subject is interesting. Just make your points clearly.
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It's feels like you are speaking to a class of 6th grades, desparately trying to keep their attention from one second to the next (speaking at an accelerated pace. Relax. Slow it down. Edit. The subject is interesting. Just make your points clearly.
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