1984 - The techno-surveillance dystopia that keeps coming true!

[@emosongsandreadalongs]

I had no idea what 1984 was about when I read it, but I'd always heard it was amazing. I was disappointed to find it so slow and dry. But then after I finished it, I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks afterward. It stuck with me more than any other book I've read. Awesome and important book

[@hugonautspod]

Ja feel!

[@gordonburroughs2474]

Have you read “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It isn’t as good as 1984, but has some of the same themes and predates both it and Brave New World.

[@hugonautspod]

Not yet - but it's been on my (Brent's) bedside table for months. Sounds like I should bump it up the list!

[@McMurchie]

16:42 I think we have seen newspeak in it's infant form today, maybe starting 6+ years ago, it's a bit too much of a spicy subject but I think the battle to control language is getting a lot of attention in the modern culture wars. In the UK, the BBC have retroactively edited and censored older TV shows, same with ITV some classic media have omitted scenes that haven't aged well. This has also happened with classic books, which has caused a bit of a stir over here. I get the moral justification not to do harm, but what if we change our minds in the future, and certain things are no longer offensive - it will be too late to bring them back. 14:55 100% agree, it's more inline with Huxley's a Brave new world. Wait, wasn't 1984 one of the first of the dystopian society novels in modern times? I know Brave new world was about 12 years later or so.

[@hugonautspod]

That’s a good point on the culture wars and the language we use, you’re very much right that of course we do talk about and change our language. And Brave New World was first actually! 1932 vs 1949 publication.

[@purenonsense7296]

Yeah 1984! I watched the whole vid and not one word about chocolate rations. Good episode. Also congrats on the new baby’s. You both look the appropriate level of tired.

[@hugonautspod]

Thanks! No idea what your talking about with the chocolate rations, they go up every year of course.

[@tommydtomdecrescenzo8851]

VIEWER WARNING: Don't watch Cody & Brent's 1984 video just before bed. Unless you want to have nightmares about being chased through a dystopian Minneapolis by the thought police. ....Not that I did that. #yeahididthat

[@McMurchie]

19:30 sly sound edit, 19:32 ....yeah let that one pass!

[@McMurchie]

FIRST!

[@pamelatarajcak5634]

I think we do have newspeak here. A certain Poltitical Party makes freedom = freedom just for a certain demographic, freedom from taking vaccines, freedom to force Christian morals on everyone. Or the book banning, or Confederate statues. "Preserve" the "real" history of the US by "remembering" these men or forgetting how diverse this country actually is.

[@hugonautspod]

That’s true! We fight over language a lot in the US now that you mention it