George Orwell - A Warning to Mankind Documentary

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[@PeopleProfiles]

This video is dedicated to the memory of George Orwell to mark the 120th anniversary of his birth. A genius for the ages.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your work and dedication are incredible ❤❤❤❤❤

[@cahlendavidson2921]

And he's still alive?!

[@petejames1326]

could you make a doco on former sth african president VOERWORD who started apartheid and who was brutally assassinated in parliament

[@kevin4962]

​😂😊😂😂😊😂😂😂

[@dinagodinez269]

Thank you for this video!🙏

[@ethanramos4441]

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell

[@herrmajor2310]

The freedom of political choice is absolutely illusionary. Your votes don't matter, you ping pong between two parties, two faces of the same coin. And whatever they've bloviated to the masses before is swiftly forgotten and its business as usual as they once more take a "temporary" hold upon the reigns of power. These empty suits within public corridors need not represent you at all, and do exactly as ordered by their true masters, who may as well be occult demons lurking in the shadows. Inflation rises, taxes rise, livelihoods vanish, and yet the proletariat accept it. Thinking surely this time at the ballot box things will change. Scarcely moving a degree beyond that thought. As long as they had alcohol, nonsensical newspapers, entertainment, the football game and pornography. They were easy enough to control. That is the truth of my experience. Now go on. Hate me.

[@johnfowler4820]

Most people I know actively denounce me for trying to inform them about the totalitarian state we live under now and the genocide it is enacting upon us.

[@lesleyhogg2495]

And here we are

[@TheAmbulatoryAnarchist]

And so often quoted unironically by right wingers...

[@battouwikka1412]

Says the side that states men can be women and women can be men…

[@mikecawood]

The trouble is that today's politicians regard Orwell's book 1984 as a user manual.

[@alexjager4517]

Brilliant !

[@leeharwood9624]

Well he was a BLAIRE and part of the labour party

[@SPRUbique]

Use Orwell in a debate though… and a high majority of people automatically smear you as a bigoted right wing conspiracist 🤔

[@kwongtaktang6369]

So correct

[@duggydugg3937]

fascisti will lead to eugenics

[@Scully-js4rk]

'YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY' - George Orwell; a man well beyond his time. If he could see us now he would be glad he is deceased. Thankyou George for your work.

[@Weegie_in_Spain]

Orwell never said anything of the kind. He would have hated that right wing governments and fascism is on the rise in Russia, USA, China, India, UK, France, Brazil, and dozens of other countries. Orwell fought for socialism against fascism and he'd be appalled nobody is fighting fascism today.

[@clintmillett2026]

The WEF and WHO are upon us. 1984 is happening NOW.

[@Scully-js4rk]

I didn't say it was easier then, throughout history mankind has had to struggle through life unless they were wealthy enough to own their own houses etc. @@jamesroof6150

[@dawnadriennetaylor970]

​@@jamesroof6150All four planned decades in advance.

[@michaelsmith-rd9qw]

Plans of mice and men. I think you are right but not all goes as planned sometimes and the results can be constant disaster limitation I guess. ​@@dawnadriennetaylor970

[@Brain_Sync]

He wrote cautionary tales of absolute authoritarian regimes, foreseeing many aspects of modern dystopian society over the last few decades. I consider him one of the greatest visionary free thinkers of the 20th century.

[@Chris_Wolfgram]

Agreed. Yet a good number of folks will read exactly the same stuff by Orwell, that we have, and turn it around to mean, “the left has it all straight” and it’s the right wingers that are heading us into this absolute authoritarian regime. (even a good number of folks giving responses here) This is just so weird to me. 1984 doesn’t seem particularly hard to follow.

[@Brain_Sync]

@@Do-U-Know-me00 that's news to me. Did he really? Why would he emphasize the inhumane aspects of a dystopian society in dramatic ways if he wanted to portray a desirable scenario?

[@Chris_Wolfgram]

@@Brain_Sync I completely agree with you, but like I said in my post before, some people will take George Orwell's writings, and somehow turn it all around to say the opposite of what we think he was saying ? Weird, right ? Crazy world.

[@Brain_Sync]

@@Chris_Wolfgram I see what you mean. We live in strange times indeed.

[@Datanditto]

Oh do you..

[@1800cc-Dead-Meat]

30 years ago, I thought Orwell might be talking about 1000 years from now, but it's happening now before our eyes. Thank you for posting this.

[@Trumpforeever]

Once they took over the media it was all over

[@gailschofield2413]

It was happening when he wrote it, too!

[@CrazyKazy]

Resist the reset!!

[@heiker1351]

30 years ago I lived in East Germany. 30 years ago I read the book and I knew I had to get out of there. 30 years later I realize it's worse than ever before.

[@guyincognito1406]

15 years ago I was being called Orwellian for saying what I saw out loud.

[@MementoMoriXIII]

It is incredible how a person from the past could see what was gonna happen in the future, but most people nowadays can't even see their own present, George Orwell a wise man

[@1984Skynet]

It's history repeating. Life under Stalin is strangely familiar.

[@jasperkensington2644]

It’s following the inevitable end of allowing tyranny in a growing technological age. He certainly exposed how the elite name things the opposite of what they are (Ministry of Love, Peace, Plenty, etc.). We have “Patriot Act”, “Inflation Reduction Act”, etc. Our Smart TVs can see us & China exposes J-Walkers on large public screens, facial recognition everywhere….they’re just getting warmed up. Where’s today’s Orwells that can foresee our now inevitable ends?

[@josephsalmonte4995]

Nope. The elites have plans spanning decades. He knew what was coming

[@vohumanity]

@@1984Skynet It's just a time loop. He described what was going on in his time - as, "nowhere" means Now&Here, but not No&Where. We are still here. "That's why WE are here"... (From the song. 🤫😂)

[@GetReady4LiftOff]

In Jesus day on Earth there was great turmoil, hatred, gayism, idols what we go thru today. God prevail.

[@kixigvak]

"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it" - George Orwell. He was a great writer and I'm glad we read Animal Farm, 1984, and his essays in high school in the '60s. He has had a very positive impact on my life.

[@MrMirville]

But what if the victor does not want you to lose it completely and bribes your own officials to wage it forever and ever to give himself a perpetual good guy's role?

[@biggusdickus9046]

WTF, lmao@@MrMirville

[@shanejones578]

@@MrMirvilleit will end soon.

[@inaani917]

Brilliant

[@patriciachadwick5658]

Recall hearing much 'gossip' around the Sunday afternoon card games, and singing around the piano my large family indulged in...we children hid under the long tablecloth to listen...word was "top hats were invented to make the small elite mentality assume greater height of much envied lower class men'.

[@eattherich2]

George Orwell is one of the greatest writers of all time in my opinion. It's a shame he died at such a relative young age.

[@GuinessOriginal]

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell

[@juliepeterson6639]

He said his truth, and it made sense to sooo many, his words ring true. Knowing how power works, bad or good, is a power in itself,

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

"Our society is run by madmen, for mad ends. I think we are being run by madmen, to a mad end, and I think I am being locked up as a madman for saying that. That's the insane part of it." John Lennon

[@alanjax7685]

people dont like the truth, thats a fact they only want to hear what they believe,

[@NedReck6967]

"It's much easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they've been fooled." - Mark Twain

[@sam-fc9ky]

el on musk likes saying this

[@KRthe4]

The fact you plublished this video on Orwells 120th birthday has not gone unnoticed! ❤

[@jayo3074]

It was unnoticed to me

[@WickedNature2112]

Smart "Plublishing", supposably😂

[@eddasturrup4912]

"Unnoticed...... "

[@richardsmith2511]

think we should just set things on fire

[@BroMark1611]

@@richardsmith2511 lol

[@robbieevans6536]

Being educated and experiencing life in both the privileged class and the working class gave Orwell an acute sense of fairness and perspective.

[@pamcheung9880]

he was against Totalitarism...

[@sandponics]

I was born lower working class, with a lousy education, and am now middle class and rising, so look out as I may be coming for you.

[@ExtraordinaryLiving]

This man, George Orwell, had done so, so much in only 46 years ... such a remarkable life!!!

[@chumamakasi6682]

I literally got the chills at this point, 51:55, ... 'He believed that the foundations of totalitarianism lay in the misuse of language to manipulate the truth and was pessimistic about humanity's tendency to be subject to such manipulation.' Wow!, how 2023 is that assertion, talk about a man who saw tomorrow.

[@marksherrill9337]

Agree. The so called American news being the worse offender I’m shocked anyone listens.

[@kirstenmetcalf3842]

Orwell was a Revolutionary Socialist writing about and experiencing the rise of Fascism. The freedom right IS a fascist movement.. If Orwell was alive today, he would writing similar pieces about Trump, the anti vaxx, anti mask "Freedom movement"

[@ronaldturner4849]

Orwell foresaw the eventual rise of "doublespeak", a brainwashing technique used to confuse and thus control the public, which we are experiencing more than ever now with words like "woke" being inverted to make something good like awareness, sound bad. This misuse of language and semantics is now being applied in our schools, used to ban history books on subjects the authorities want to eliminate.... like the history of slavery and Jim Crow in America, the Nazi Holocaust, the American government's genicide against Native Americans and racism as a topic in general. Everyone should read 1984 before they succeed in banishing it as too "woke" for our consumption! Orwellian thought police, sent from the totalitarian's "Ministry of Truth" will be banging on our doors and interfering with our internet access in order to suppress knowledge soon enough. We will wake up in an Orwellian police state!

[@mikefrancis8223]

Commie-speak is here, …

[@michelleprice7605]

I thought the same thing.

[@raph5402]

Now more than ever, 1984 is one of the most important books to read.

[@garysnow1475]

Bet it gets banned

[@SnarkasticSunny]

And therefore Ron DeSantis, aka: "Ron BeGone" will ban it & burn it if necessary, to prevent Floridians from getting "woke"! GOP's worst fear is that more people... their people... might get 'woke' up B4 elections. If they don't see the truth & pain already, then too comatose to get 'woke up'!

[@eattherich2]

True, even "Animal Farm" is very relevant today.

[@mikebasil4832]

Indeed. That’s why I bought it for my nephew. Animal Farm too.

[@jcovent]

It used to be fiction.

[@monicamburu]

I read1984 in my teen years and at the time i thought it was a great book, but quite outrageous story line. Little did i know we would be literally living through those times! Its quite frightening!

[@tomigun5180]

His works, Huxley's Brave New World, and Bradbury's 451 Fahrenheit are essential reads, to understand the wold we live in today.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.

[@chriswamahiu8751]

"The Animal Farm," is one of the set books in the High School English curriculum here in Kenya. It has been in the curriculum several times, now across the years. It is the only book done by a European writer. The rest are from African authors. This guy is a literary genius.

[@Patricia-sn9ln]

We had to read it in New York schools in the early 80's

[@marleneamry4258]

Good for you, Kenya.

[@jontysdriver]

Should be set book in all schools

[@playgirl7305]

Was also in Zimbabwe secondary schools compulsory in the early 90's. Among Others I remember were from Wole Sonyika, Chinau Achebe.

[@annabell3385]

I read it on my own sometime in the last century. With nobody to direct my thinking on it, I related the book to America. It wasn't until somebody made fun of me on the internet that I knew it was specifically about Russia.

[@OldNick74]

George Orwell's books, in particular, 1984 and Animal Farm, should be mandatory reading in all British schools. Especially with the sinister things going on around the world right now.

[@bobjary9382]

They have been on the reading list of many schools in fhe uk in the past ; In part because they both describe in clear and compelling narratives the dangers of authoritarian regimes. Perhaps they've fallen out of favour a little as we have put a few years between those two great examples, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, but we ignore the warnings at out own risk . The rise of the dictators seems to be upon us . There is something insidious in the current state of affairs, perhaps the threat of scarcity or impending ecocide or is there something in our media social or otherwise that fosters nationalistic and populist sentiments ? Whatever we do well not to ignore Orwell . The real Mr.Blair.

[@jasminejones9937]

I second that emotion 👍

[@Skitdora2010]

You can add The Gulag Archipelago to that list, and to all of the West. We had to read both of those books by Orwell in public school in NY state, and watched the movies in class. Animal Farm was middle school, say 8th grade and then 1984 was 11th. Each year in HS we read a Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Midsummers Night Dream, The Tempest. When NY state theater institute did a production of the Tempest, Schoharie County HS students attended the last performance for class as they had been reading it, and they were gifted the set design (gaudy purple hideous logs and fake trees with strips of some see-through billowing violet cloths strips coming out of them) for their senior prom when their teachers asked for them. Poor kids. We read the War of the Worlds too, and listened to the original radio broadcasting, which might have prepared us if the aliens want to invade. American's are not all stupid, just mostly the coasts and big cities.

[@bobjary9382]

@@Skitdora2010 Good call , Ivan Denisovich also, a great intro to Solzhenitsyn. We read Brave New World Aldous Huxley at the same time as 1984. I didnt like some of the lit , Forster, Lawrence (and Laurie Lee) and really resented having to study. Its taken 40 years to get over that and I now appreciate their work. Its so counterproductive forcing kids to read , whatever they study it should be enjoyable first and foremost

[@janicebillington1640]

​@@Skitdora2010 oh come on, no one thinks that all Americans are stupid, far from it. I was so pleased to read that you had read so many British authors, particularly since you have so many wonderful American ones: Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller to name but a few. They have been responsible for some great literature and social observations.

[@MsVito22]

What a true genius. And... he really lived what his heart felt... how brave and dedicated a man ... a true inspiration 🎉

[@sallyspencer5624]

He moved around a lot during his life and gained a lot of experience in and out of the military. He also had spoken with a lot of people and written a few books whether they were successful or not. Spending time dressed as a poor man in the slums of London was incredible but it taught him a lot about the sorry state of people who could not rise above such poverty. However all of this prepared him for his greatest work, taking his observations about the problems of his day and using it to write a book about the future in 1984 This book is still read and talked about and we see it coming true 40 years later in the 22nd century.

[@johncourtney3295]

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” How true.

[@user-nv2vq9zu2h]

Only on the farm. If you look at the wilderness the rule is survival of the strongest!

[@terryday-land9657]

George never imagined that you would become Muslims.

[@chriswoods662]

quickest'@@user-nv2vq9zu2h

[@americanpatriot7247]

​@@terryday-land9657 Ummmmm....no.

[@sandragruhle6288]

Read the book! It is a scary education. It should smack you right between the eyes that everything in it is a symbol for something else: The farms, for specific countries; the different animals, for different classes of people; the events, for actual historical episodes. It really is extraordinary, a little gem of a book that is a quick and easy read the first time, and a great reread over time.

[@lorna5193]

George Orwell's uncanny predictions are now coming true. An amazing writer and so courageous. "But if thought can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thought" - George Orwell. I believe 1984 is our wake-up call and we need to heed it.

[@Brenda-in8bd]

I agree

[@johnw6389]

Ever thought it wasn't predictions... Ever thought it was the plan... The Jesuits always have a plan... 1984 was the plan... and planned for centuries... Nostradamus prophecies were plans too... in his prophecies he said there would three world wars... so did Albert Pike.... The last war would be the Jesuit Pope.... the first Jesuit pope... Pope Francis.. The current Pope. Why was George Orwell so horrified about the sinking of Titanic... I've always been 50/50 on George Orwell... did he write 1984.. or was he paid to write it... or did he know why the world would go into tyranny... We are going through it now... and all the media, social networks, platform like facebook, youtube all being blocked or removed... was Orwell and Nostradamus doing the same thing... showing the plan... in a way the people can understand the plan.

[@Patricia-sn9ln]

Spot on Mate Peace to all

[@boshmow3600]

In response to the heed, a faint cry is heard...I can't right now, I gotta charge my cell phone.

[@barbaradouglas2283]

Re: comment: okay, interesting now compare this info of George Orwell 1984, to the Holy Bible. Just see how they might match or come across as parrallel. Give it a try.

[@cherienafo7676]

Indeed- George Orwell (Eric) was a genius, way ahead of his times, but he does reflect current thinking- now in 2023. The world as we know it- is changing and we all will play a part in shaping the future. Thus, we should all have the courage to do what must be done.

[@joefoley1480]

so how many genders have you got Cherian?

[@cowboyblu1]

A great writer and one who pursued truth in his world. A courageous writer who has not been forgotten. His writing lives on. Thank you

[@karenpaynter4329]

I read 1984 for the first time in 2020. I am 60 now. I wish I had read it when I was younger, it might have opened my eyes to what was happening years ago, induced me to delve deeper. This book is prophetic.

[@sdalt001]

More like, people's patterns are just predictable.

[@luv2dancesalsa465]

I’m also 60. Read it when I was in college. Along with Animal Farm. I’ve tried but just can’t bare to watch the movie with Richard Burton and John Hurt. It should be mandatory viewing for high school students even though it’s probably one of the scariest horror films that will result in nightmares. If kids can stomach the Freddy Krueger movies they should do just fine having to think about how real 1984 really is.

[@billiejocowell3242]

You are never too old to read and learn.

[@t.me_s_petizioni_2220]

@@luv2dancesalsa465 I bambini ascoltano notiziari sulle vittoriose avanzate dell' Eur-anglia contro le orride squadre dell'EurAsia, e sugli orribili crimini dell'EurAsia e di come i bambini dell' Oceania muoiono di fame e di covid per colpa loro. Quindi possono ascoltare anche qualcosa di veritiero.

[@t.me_s_petizioni_2220]

Io ho letto 1984 nel 1984 su prescrizione di un docente partigiano, e la cosa che m'impressionò da subito del teatro dell' 11 Settembre 2001 fu la fluida penetrazione di un aereo fino a spuntare dall'altra parte.

[@twitchbiddy6880]

It seems that we have been living some aspects of ‘1984’ during the passed few years - disinformation, thought police, censorship, re-education, big brother … it’s a book with deeply sobering warnings of how society should never ever become ….yet what have we seen these last few years or in fact for decades?

[@crisismanagement]

A sad reality of human history

[@cilla268]

More of an instruction book rather than a prediction. Same with Aldous Huxley.

[@marksherrill9337]

Agreed

[@curtrice6060]

I read 1984 in my youth. I’ve always looked carefully at my governments publications. Yet , 😩 the 99% freemen , have become slaves to the oligarchs. The people I voted to send to Washington, have never represented the 99%. Congress has always been with the oligarchs. Sound like 1984 ? 🥺😩😱💩🤠🤑

[@Redstar309Z]

@@cilla268 1984 if you read it and Orwell. You will see it's a critique of Stalinism and unfettered free market capitalism. Please while we are reading Orwell's book's ... Read Homage to Catalonia. Once you do, you will see more of Orwell's ideological position laid bare. TLDR any of Orwell's books. Orwell was an ardent Revolutionary Socialist and Anti-Fascist

[@eattherich2]

George Orwell to me would be in the top 100 of my favourite people of all time. I have deep respect for his both intellectual understanding, awareness and care. We need more men like him.

[@cruisepaige]

He lived off female relatives a lot

[@octaviusmanago8640]

A genius indeed! A man with a deep sense of self, sympathy and social awareness. Great documentary.

[@noelmaher2301]

George Orwell was a genius who could see through the greed of politics.

[@samsmom1491]

It's human greed and corruption entrenched into politics.

[@donnlayne8775]

All governments are doomed to failure

[@marynelson4445]

Agreed up human nature

[@piotrczubryt1111]

Maybe not a genius, but simply an _honest_ intelligent man of a pure heart.

[@terryday-land9657]

George never imagined that you would become Muslims.

[@oregonpatriot1570]

Watching Orwell's visions come true is amazing and scary. 1984 is as real right now as it was in his mind.

[@paulatreides4274]

He understood how the natural progression would take place under totalitarianism much like a Sherlock Holmes vision.

[@massimoricciardi6202]

1984 is happening right now Trudeau , Soros , Putin and so on. Liberal stupidity running out of control.

[@TheAmbulatoryAnarchist]

"Oregon Patriot".. 😂 It always amazes me how people like you completely miss literally every point he ever made... 😂

[@leeharwood9624]

He was a BLAIRE and part of the labour party. His family is making it reality

[@windmill2270]

yep, they even have the New Speak dictionary now.

[@rayeves1746]

I played “Boxer” the horse in a play adaptation of animal farm at school. It inspired me to become an actor. Orwell’s political and social insight are relevant today. Politicians are constantly using media to tell “alternative truths” to violate, manipulate and gain power. Look at the ridiculous idealistic Brexit and the US presidential campaigns. In my opinion Orwell was one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

[@sandragruhle6288]

As an American teacher, I used Animal Farm in the classroom for years because I never found anything better. It is a jewel of a book, and one I coordinated with the history department when it covered that time period. The kids had a positive reaction, and formed study groups to try to determine essay questions I might pose. They invariably came up with a good one I had not considered.🤭 It was an exciting classroom tool, and something every American voter should read before the next election.

[@coloringwdeborahl.mcdonald7621]

I played Squealer in high school in the 70's, it is not 1984 we are now living but rather Animal Farm and it is frightening!

[@janetprice85]

I would not include Brexit in that. Brexit was UK citizen's unhappiness with percieved unfair trade deals and subversion of UK's rights to EU mandates. The move towards globalism where a cadre of rich elites and their pet politicians potentially manage every aspect of your daily life,eg no national interests, is seen as a real threat by many like Orwell's 1984. Think the CCP on a global level.

[@paulturner9998]

@@coloringwdeborahl.mcdonald7621Orwell said when asked why A Brave New World was so different to his view of a future dystopian collective, he replied that Huxley's version would be only a temporary manifestation of the collective future. He also said in his final interview as a warning to humanity. "Imagine a boot stamping on a human face... FOREVER!"

[@harrietkinloch7451]

The idealistic brexit was the British people avoiding the boot in the face forever! The fact that we're getting the boot in the face forever is our government not wanting our freedom from the eu, therefore not implimenting brexit in it's entirety,

[@hakangustavsson3538]

1984, read well ahead of that year, had a profound influence on my own thinking. We can be so thankful to Orwell that he struggled on to get that book publicized.

[@wilson4968]

I was fascinated by 1984 in 1984. In 2023, I regard the novel with much more recognition.

[@lenevans9639]

What he accomplished in a short 40 yrs is astonishing..bravo .

[@sandgrownun66]

Forty-six, actually.

[@nikossakkas]

Great man, free and uncompromised spirit

[@joeschmoe3665]

One thing that never ceases to amaze me as a person who have a hard time finding a calling in this world is how some of the most iconic writers have been so wayward and unsuccesful in their careers before finally being recognized or even dying unknown

[@davidogundipe808]

This man was simply a genuis, and a forseer and great observer. His writings should never be taken for granted.

[@sandgrownun66]

Genius.

[@LynetteA68]

It’s been taken out of schools in Florida!!

[@sandgrownun66]

@@LynetteA68 Why?

[@LynetteA68]

@@sandgrownun66 🤷🏼‍♀️Reps said so

[@sandgrownun66]

@@LynetteA68 No they didn't. You've been conned. Do you always believe everything you see and hear. Are you one of those who think jezus existed, and angels are real too?

[@Afrobrit]

Remember in 1983 as a 12 year old, asking my English teacher at the time about the book 1984 (I thought it might be sci-fi) and if it was any good. He told me to just read it and all I can say is that it blew my mind! One of the greats, in my opinion.

[@curtrice6060]

Has your early reading, made you a Democracy skeptic? As it has made me .🤪🤡🤥🤭

[@mikefrancis8223]

But of coarse, it’s helped me appreciate tyrant all the more.

[@martinkil50]

When I was 11 in 1970 and had just moved to the “big school” or secondary modern as they were then known prior to the comprehensive revolution, we had a rather attractive youngish science teacher - Miss Bolinski or something vaguely Slavic - and after one class several of us were talking to her and “books we needed to read” came up. She gave us three, Animal farm, 1984 and Brave New World - an excellent primer for our dystopian future.

[@carolmckinney1429]

​@@curtrice6060Democracy is better than the alternative! Democracy has checks and balances where the alternative is an authoritarian one-party system. We the people have caused the issues we face today. Get involved with your politicians and if they don't speak for you, vote them out.

[@paulussantosociwidjaja4781]

Oops, I remember that I was started asked to read this book in Winter 1983. But not so serious as after being part of the curriculum when taking the more serious English class: Literature in 1984, amazed me.

[@CarmenFalkenburg]

Truly a superb documentary, Orwell was a great man of compassion and integrity, a brilliant Author.. 🙏

[@bodawei425]

Thanks for this extraordinary video. George Orwell is one of my favorite writers. Clearly, if 1984 and Animal Farm are his most famous and original works, Burmese Days holds a special place in my heart. Brilliantly written, it is the depiction of a man stuck in Burma. Far from his home country, he cannot stand anymore his loneliness and it is too late now for him to return home. The obtuse fellow Englishmen from the Club, full of hatred, the exotic country where he lives - he is probably the only foreigner to see beauty in the Burmese culture, but he will never be able to be part of it-, and the rejection from the only woman he could have married... All contribute to the collapse of this man. For whoever has not read it yet, it is worth the experience (the first time, I read it in Myanmar, which was even more pleasant).

[@simongladdish777]

In my opinion George Orwell was a literary genius. He was a massive influence on me as a young man.

[@jacquelinemarialongstaff1531]

I read Animal Farm and 1984 in high school. I really enjoyed both but at the time didn’t realise how prophetic they were. Later I travelled the world - sometimes together with a leading investigative journalist. I can now see that the times George Orwell wrote about are upon us. It's important more people begin to wake up to what is happening.

[@rudisusic2632]

why? what they can do?just to be arrested and prosecuted... people's need clear answers about that question ❓

[@Catlady8]

These were required readings when I was in school too. We know why they aren’t now😞

[@LynetteA68]

@@Catlady8now banned in Florida.

[@connierowell4395]

Agreed!!

[@fairyprincess911]

He was writing about the times he lived in and projected into the future.

[@KIREGREBRON]

One of the most influential authors of our time. I've read thousands of books, and The Animal Farm and 1984 have made a significant impression on me like few other books!

[@lizfox4624]

The world has always needed visionaries and it seems they’ve luckily had them and what a gift someone like George Orwell’s writing is to the rest of us. I worry that there’s not really anyone like that now, not really. There are people sounding alarm bells, quite rightly because the present day is more alarming than any previous time in my lifetime. Maybe we can only ever look back and see the genius of someone but looking back doesn’t help right now when we’re living in a world that is abominable. I enjoy watching this sort of programme and I worry about humanity now which seems only to produce toxic people riling up other toxic people and drowning the voices of those of us who still want someone like George Orwell and his tremendous foresight.

[@AimHigherWindowCleaning]

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength." It’s definitely Worth a second and third read

[@biggusdickus9046]

Entire western world outside of every eastern country. lol

[@gregsutter1805]

Your post describes today.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: - When Governed by Politicians - Who justify Starvation,Death Camps,Gassing/White Phosphorus,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - Governed by Righteous or Satanic?

[@nitasheehan2704]

I read Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" about 60 years ago. He had a profound impact on my thinking regarding politics.

[@kimberiysmarketstrategy]

I am so grateful every night that all of my children are safe in a warm bed tonight. I do not take this for granted. You never know when the outbreak of war will take our creature comforts and make them obsolete.

[@kdfinch]

George Orwell has long been my favorite author, and the one I would most want to emulate, were I ever to become a writer myself.

[@mylighthouse888]

Such a great writer. What a fascinating life he had! Bless Orwell for making us think……..Love and Light to All here.💕🕊️🙏🏼

[@dennisbloomquist9220]

mister eric blair. amazing, indeed

[@Rumpel_Stiltskin]

He was brilliant. No one else has written quite like him. Combining analytical clarity with the most sensitive and humble humility.

[@barbaradouglas2283]

Re: comment: compare this to/with the Bible. See how this might match the Bible prophecies that are coming true as it might appear to be George Orwell.Jesus Christ is & knows a MUCH HIGHER knowledge than any human writings, but I certainly get it, I too get George Orwell 1984 book. Just try seeing how they compare to each other! George Orwell was only human; not more than that. But he certainly makes you think hard about what’s going on?! What’s happening?! Yikes!!!

[@spicyirwin5835]

​@@barbaradouglas2283Jesus didnt write the Bible & alot were murdered so they were not in the Bible. Translations r diff. Judas journal was found & Jesus asked him to turn him in & Judas didnt want to hence he hung himself & proving how much Jesus loved us knowing what would happen to him. Bible meant to say how to procreate not the correct way to have sex. God creates gays so why should they be sinners? I could go on & archologists dig up journals of others even about Jesus & Mary if they kissed on lips or not.

[@deanmorgan7011]

I agree, though I also think aldous huxley was a visionary. These guys could see what was coming.

[@terryday-land9657]

Georges would be very surprised to see that the UK has become Islamist, he never thought about it.

[@kenweaver1329]

Try Ayn Rand

[@kikk101]

George Orwell was a truth seeker. And he shows us the way we have to follow: - you shouldn't believe anything and anyone until you check it by yourself!

[@SacredCovenant4ever]

The Orwellian influence is an enduring gift to humanity. May those who inherit this world also inherit courage, bravery, personal conviction and critical and independent thinking skills...qualities to which Mr. Blair's loyalty was obvious and consistent to his last day. I wonder what became of his son? May God Bless Mr. Blair, and those like him... understanding of course that the best treasures are stored in heaven, there is no doubt he lives on an abundance of spiritual wealth as his earthly influence continues on. What more can one hope for?

[@karinmccarthyeliz]

Incredible. All of the writers from the 30’s 40’s understood what wad going to happen. I can only say that I pray we are all strong enough to push back. Thank you!

[@yesthatsagrubworm.7732]

It was what was happening then, and he wrote about what he witnessed at that time. Just like all writers then, now and in future who turn reality into fictional characters. The movie Escape from New York, was probably a book (Gone with the Wind etc) turned movie when I was a kid, and if u look at NYC, Bronx etc in 60s thru early 90s...mercy. Same with other big cities like Miami in the 80s where I grew up. High crime big time in these cities. And ppl 'fleeing' big time, like I did when I was 19 yr old. Miami however, has come back in an epic way with a positive vibe that's dramatically different than when I was a kid. In other words...we have history, all over the internet for everyone to view and learn as to not repeat.

[@annemaria5126]

Sadly we are not. We are weak. Our families make us weak. Our stomach makes us weak. Our emotions make us weak.

[@larrywilson9392]

Free people of Hong Kong were not successful.

[@annemaria5126]

@@larrywilson9392 😒

[@rehtaeh]

​@@annemaria5126 Emotions make us human. Learning to manage and communicate your emotions is called maturity and helps you to empathize with others. That's not weakness; it's an immense strength. The lack of emotional awareness and empathy is a cancer on our society.

[@anitacronyn]

George Orwell was a very insightful person. I find it quite amazing that his books actually describe what is going on today, everywhere.

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

All these comments surprise me that so many people realise what's happening now, it's sort of moving .

[@johnperchman161]

Also a diary of Anne Frank animal farm 1984 I read them all in high school unbelievable how accurate today Anne Frank's diary it's coming around again

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

You could say the same about Brave New World author Aldous Huxley being insightful, but the Huxley family were all eugenists and elitists who wanted the population to be controlled . Similarly Orwell was from the establishment elites (ancestor of the Earl of Westmorland) and seemed to be shoed into establishment jobs and hardly worked really. I'm just giving an alternative opinion , as I believe it's unhealthy for everyone to have the same view. The last few years have shown that no matter how eloquent the speaker and no matter how much they say what we want to hear, ALWAYS ALWAYS be a critical thinker, maybe Orwell would be happy with such a view, maybe not

[@SueFerreira75]

This is not just today, but throughout the history of Mankind.

[@user-yu8cg7lz2h]

knowledge forces us to read about the future and hope.

[@alexisulrich9217]

Fabulous, what to say more. This informative documentary on the life of George Orwell literally blew my mind. It may be incomprehensible to most my story parallels George Orwell. Tragedy unbeknownst to me, has struck at it’s core, not only to me in a life driven by outside madness, as well George Orwell. At 70 as a world traveler with a 20 year college, university education, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, stories I can tell. Thank you ❤

[@authorhelp4448]

I was 7 when I read Animal Farm and 11 when I read 1984 both brilliant books. They should be on the school curriculum for all time. The thought Police we have today need knocking on the head along with all the disgusting things that are going on straight out of 1984 today! I will think what I like, say what I like and do what I like to the end of my days and so should everyone else, Freedom matters!

[@martir3499]

You are right! Freedom does matter and something that should not be thrown away by those who only want to control us. Freedom of choice for all!!!

[@FreeSoul132]

AMEN 🙏.

[@thomasmartinscott]

Amazing that he saw what half of the world Refuses to see while it's become reality right under their noses!

[@lifeisimportantkate]

They saw it but just did not care.

[@jamesturnbull4933]

Right under their covid mask covered noses !

[@rafaelcarmany463]

Don't Fly any kind of plane. But we will fly Private Jets, because my Position in the Government demands it!

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

​@@rafaelcarmany463funny!

[@jamesfratzia]

His prescience is astounding. Not only is he describing Britain's trajectory, but the trajectory of the entire Anglosphere abn detail and the West in general.

[@johnobrien984]

I bought 1984 when I was in Cuba that was in the year. Of 1995 sadly I gave a loan of it to someone in Ethiopia Addis Ababa simulator to Cuba no books to buy somehow I saw it there and bought it. Sorry can’t be loaned or leave my side now 83 years of age it has become my little treasure living in Dublin Ireland

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

​​​@@johnobrien984I'm surprised it was for sale in a Communist country back then

[@tinadavy3990]

Yes, raised amid the Illuminati.

[@carolgiangreco6548]

As a young girl in High School in the 60's USA, I'd never thought about freedom, just assumed it was the normal way of life. Learning about tyranny in the form of thought police and mind control woke me up. Thanks to George Orwell I never again took freedom for granted, and became aware and politicized for life.

[@pennyelaines]

A visionary, who like all visionaries paid the price of snide, contempt and utter unappreciatiation from his compemporaries. His.legacy proves its value and inportance every passing human era, and it will for as long as the world turns.

[@Cdarlosfletch58]

He was and is one of the true great humans of his time ! A true humanitarian who understood the corrupt empire and corrupt politicians warmongers and working class social conditions of his times !!!

[@cherylschumaker1366]

George and Aldus Huxley both published their books at around the same time ...a mirror into our possible future if the mass allows....

[@royalirishranger1931]

He was insightful and far sighted , a very rare man indeed. His warnings echo around us like thunder claps , visible , frightful and contemporary.

[@viquarunisa-begum8874]

He lived an incredible and intriguing life and career very short but full filling life seen and experienced 2 WW’s and witnessed humanity at its worst and weakest in the making of world history he is a true inspiration to many people.

[@Celticcross688]

Excellent view of George Orwell’s life.. he certainly packed a lot in in his 46 years.. He had much foresight..and has given us warning .. his writing has shown us what Freedom is not..😮..

[@me0101001000]

Everyone talks about Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, but I have to say, the work which spoke to me most was "Why I Write". It's no novel or epic, but just an essay. But still, as a hopeful writer, it made me feel so incredibly seen. It discusses the aspiration for intellectualism while harboring a disdain for intellectuals, a struggle between being proud of your own culture while embracing others, and to acknowledge biases without passing a judgement on said bias.

[@snufkinhollow318]

Hear hear!

[@swannoir7949]

It's too bad the Catholic Church didn't see it that way, when it authorized the enslave of the Negro race.

[@sanniepstein4835]

I discovered his essays at 16. It was like a barn door being thrown open.

[@thomastopping9625]

What a tight rope to walk

[@keithscothern3398]

also the road to wigan pier. were he travels through 1930's northern england. and is disgusted by the grinding poverty of the working class and laments their propensity to vote for the people that keep them in poverty.

[@sayitasiseeit626]

In my 70s and having lived in 4 countries and travelled extensively having been born into the slums of industrial 1950s Great Britain. I have watched Orwell's predictive novel slowly take shape in the realities of the 20th & early 21st Centuries. His cumulative experiences from birth to becoming a writer illustrate the man's acute understanding of the human animal far beyond that of most. I personally agree that the label of 'genius' as it relates to him, his accomplishments & vision, is therefore apt and deserving.

[@christophergreen2328]

As a huge Orwell fan, I really enjoyed this

[@matkissell96]

This should be spread world wide

[@eamonnmorris5331]

I think of him often when I hear terms such as "fake news" and "alternative facts". He had a canny knack for understanding and predicting self-serving human deceptions.

[@TheCursingYogi]

Same 😂

[@TruelyMM]

I think you are completely missing the point of the term “fake news”. Please consider the “Russian Dossier Hoax”, “Hunter’s Laptop”, “Palestine & Israel truths”, MSM stopped reporting objective facts & news long ago and are now simply puppets of the ruling class and big pharma.

[@tinadavy3990]

Of course... raised in Illuminati Circles... knew the Agenda.

[@flej01]

Such a man of vision, many years ahead of his time

[@terryday-land9657]

George never imagined that you would become Muslims.

[@delmariecrandall9229]

i DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO SAY.@@terryday-land9657

[@SueFerreira75]

Not so - Orwell was a man of history.

[@leslieshoeb7240]

Orwell was undoubtedly was one of the great minds of his period. He really yet to be discovered. His book, " coming up for air" also a great book. RIP.

[@TheWell22]

What an inspirational and purpose filled life this hero lead. This is an excellent and very informative video. Thankyou 😊

[@ds94703]

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the future controls the past" - Eric Blair (George Orwell)

[@tinadavy3990]

EXACTLY... ILLUMINATI PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING .

[@donnamixon1195]

Which is why those who don’t like the truth are busy trying to rewrite it.

[@sandraevans6066]

Orwell’s books are an excellent depiction and study in human psychology and behaviour. I share his sentiments which were true in his time and still read as well in our current climate. Brilliant writer. Thank you for this interesting video.

[@duggydugg3937]

our behavior is not automatically good

[@darethapaulrealestate]

Im a huge fan of George Orwell, I’m so glad I found this documentary of his life. I did subscribe, I’m a fan of this kind of info! Thank you!

[@katalingaal2182]

He was an incredible writer.

[@laika3916]

Orwell reflected on 1930s and 40s Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union and imagined a future in which totalitarian regimes would be able to use more sophisticated methods to control and shape the thought processes of their populations. The intended darkness of his work lies in the possibility or inevitability that individual human beings with natural critical faculties will be molded into empty vessels that simply absorb whatever information is poured into them, if that same information with no nuance or different points of view, is poured into them again and again until they become soaked and mentally incapable of absorbing any other kind of information, even if they had access to it. For the small minority that displays any kind of skepticism, sophisticated terror is employed. Not the kind of terror that makes you keep your mouth shut - the kind of terror that rewires your brain into truly believing something that you didn't believe and removing your individuality or autonomy as a human being. And very importantly, for Orwell, all ultimately for no reason or benefit other than the perpetuation of power for it's own sake and for the comfort and benefit of the individuals at the very top who are running the machine.

[@timothyonucki1860]

So sadly very actually Factual todaze globally with handheld screens Selfs deleting while programming 24/7/365. And world creed religion of defacto Omnicide.

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

He knew the world was run by psychopaths. He was also a member of the Fabian society.

[@kevinkazakevich5766]

It seems that the same sorts of people have too much power today.

[@williamnelson9332]

True

[@Goldo97]

GIRLS AND BOYS DONT EXIST

[@cheryloconnor-nz]

Wonderful biographical documentary on George Orwell. I learned so much about his life and literary works. His name and his two most famous novels will live on (as long as they're not rewritten by the thought police!).

[@krishnantampi5665]

I thought that my former prof P. A Rajan sir was giving the lecture on George Orwell, it's incredible journey and fantastic voyage on literature thank u very much sir beautiful awsome lecture praise the Lord million times Sky

[@jameshoagland9239]

I have been fortunate to have read both Animal Farm and 1984 during my younger years. Orwell had an insight into the dilemmas of human life. My own difficulties were aided by Orwell's insights especially concerning the use of language- i.e. "doublespeak". Dealing with this challenge while I favor a more social orientation to my life and never having a problem with individual endeavor and being self-supporting I found my best source for comfort from the repetitive history of human experience I have found a great truth in that the best path of conduct and self-control to follow is by following Dharma as presented in Yogic philosophy. I wish everyone to seek their own path and hope that no one gets so enamored with materialism that they forget to seek who they really are. 🙏

[@kenhalperin3195]

It is written: There is a way that seems right to a man, but ends in Death. Jesus. Is the only Way 😇🙌👑💕.

[@jaysonagapito8663]

1984 is a masterpiece... And also a warning... Awesome video... 👍👍

[@levisguy53]

or a blueprint for some regimes

[@beccagee5905]

​@@levisguy53blueprint for the world.

[@OldNick74]

The WEF and EU have certainly used 1984 as a blueprint.

[@hongfeizhao5709]

❤

[@Redstar309Z]

@@OldNick74 No they haven't ... I think you need to read 1984 .. and when you do step out of your Alt right mindset

[@folkeholmberg3519]

1984 has followed me through my life since reading it as student literature as a teenager. Truly brilliant literature, it woke up my mind forever.

[@junesoisson1026]

I’ve heard about this book for a long time and wanted to read, but never made the time to do it. This review was very helpful to learn more about George’s life

[@jimbeck666]

Eric Blair (George Orvell) was a great writer for sure. 1984 was a masterpeace of another world. I'm also a writer too, and I adore him greatly....

[@filby3213]

Do you believe in the thought that we all should "dye" too? Poison's everywhere 😢

[@CCJ243]

We needed someone with the vast foresight and boldness like him. Someone who tirelessly warned about totalitarianism (either Fascist or Communist) and the lengths they will go to enslave the masses. His work was, is and forever will be valid.

[@hokimoki3677]

Yeah theres been heaps

[@trudyharding4277]

And yet 90% of the world now believes communism is dead! But actually the world hav3 been brainwashed into believing it. Good example is the breaking down of the Berlin wall is just a illusion that it's dead & every one dropped their gaurd & now don't question anything of what is true or false.

[@evawind]

The only real totalitarism in disguise (demonising any other political movement as such) is imperialism and neo-colonialism.

[@mikeboucnik-do6rq]

Orwell was and continues to be a prophet of our future!

[@jimbo43ohara51]

Won't be long before we look back at COVID and wonder what it was all about. This is a chilling reminder from the past.

[@barbaradouglas2283]

Re: comment: The Holy Bible & only that book, tells precisely how to tell exactly what the markers would be to indentify an authentic prophet.That way you need not be mislead or confused or misleading others.

[@terryday-land9657]

George never imagined that you would become Muslims.

[@tinadavy3990]

No prophet ... raised in Illuminati circles .

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

​@@barbaradouglas2283 Not true

[@Roberto-xb9qe]

Orwell's 1984 I had to read twice. Once as a teen, later as a young man after having travelled to both Paris and London. In London I spent more time. Usually close to leftists and activists. Then for the first time I understood that Orwell's most important message was not so much political but psychological. A strong critical oppositition to the corruptiveness of the individual's, therefore collective's minds and hearts.

[@countrymusicbydode9280]

I read it many years ago, at the time i wondered if it may happen in my lifetime, hey presto 45 years on and scotland has changed and still heading towards this 84

[@lifearttimes]

Love, George Orwell. How lucky are we to have had his writings as a guidance or a forethought which reflects the current chaos ♾️

[@vohumanity]

Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος, romanized: kháos) is the mythological VOID STATE PRECEDING THE CREATION OF the universe (the cosmos) in Greek CREATION MYTHS. In Christian theology, the same term is used to refer to THE GAP or the abyss created by the separation of heaven and earth. Etymology Greek kháos (χάος) means 'emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss', related to the verbs kháskō (χάσκω) and khaínō (χαίνω) 'gape, BE WIDE OPEN', from Proto-Indo-European cognate to Old English geanian, 'to gape', whence English yawn. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness. Pherecydes of Syros (fl. 6th century BC) interprets chaos as WATER, LIKE SOMETHING FORMLESS THAT CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED. * 👆What images come to your mind after reading of all this mess of words? Accented with capital letters words (by me) are clues or KEYs, certainly. It's how I see synchronisms or identical points of true knowl*edge. So, chaos is not the VOID STATE PRECEDING THE CREATION OF “the universe (the cosmos)”, it’s an initial state of the UNIVERSE - before people began to create blocks for the understanding or NATURAL feeling of its initial state: so-called ORDER or any other kind of “orders”, which are blocking ends for that LIVE state of ONENESS. See, the questions of - “from what every*thing takes the beginning” and “by what every*thing will be ended”. This, actually one question, must stay open. ALL*WAYS. Forever, ever, ever and after. It’s a tube, a channel, if to imagine it in 3D vision. When people stop blocking or trying to close “the beginning” and “the end” points of one LIVE tube, then only, they can under*stand, finally, what is it - real chaos, or initial state of the Universe. It’s not “an abyss or infinite darkness”, though it may seem so, but it would be only a vision of “somebody”, not the true vision at all, etc., - just a version, but not uni*versal point of view - it’s not about Now&Here understanding at all. It comes from some points of view, from people, who live in the labyrinth of versions, most likely, and who are choosing the most comfortable (for their way of thinking) dead-end. To under*stand - for me, this word calls an image of standing closer to the core of the Golden Mean. But, is it a center or horiZon still? 💫😂

[@ThePixey1000]

@lifearttimes Orwell wrote a book that politicians used as the template of what should be. it was no way a prophetic book. Men in power that knew nothing thought the book showed them the way. Stupid people.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I discovered George Orwell’s two most powerful novels (Animal Farm, and 1984), in the coffee houses of the early 1960s. I had no confusion regarding the intentions of the writer, and found both books compelling, as well as plausible warnings. I was unaware of the author’s history before today, and wish to thank you, once again, for creating such a thorough and unbiased biography of this very interesting man. You make me want to re-read his works, knowing of the experiences that shaped him as a writer.🖤🇨🇦

[@Chordonblue]

If you haven't read 'Road to Wigin Pier', I'd HIGHLY recommend it - for at least the first half, although his criticisms and commentary on socialism in the 1930's UK are also on point. The way people worked and lived in the mines and in those communities were astonishingly bad and worth reading about.

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@Chordonblue Thank you, I will take a good deep ramble through his earlier works…including those you mentioned. As soon as I had a regular job (at 14 years old), I determined to buy one book with each pay check. I bough everything from literary classics to modern poetry, and everything between. Now in my 70s, I still buy books, and have a proper library in my home. Some of my books are old and valuable, and friends, as well as authors come to research in my library. I cannot sleep until I have read, reading is a necessity in my life.🖤🇨🇦

[@bluewaters3100]

I remember our High School English class had us read and discuss "Animal Farm". It is the only story I remember from that 1968 class because it really made us think. I heard that the leftist babies think it needs to be censored out of schools because it is too disturbing for children. George would probably not be surprised....

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@bluewaters3100 Just think how hard the students of today, who will not be exposed to things our parents were not afraid would rot our brains will have it. They are not being trained to think…they are being given only one side of the story…with less and less in the way of options. We are the lucky ones.🖤🇨🇦

[@NashobaLusaTaloa]

​​@@bluewaters3100In the US, it's the far right who seem to thing Orwell's works are too upsetting for their children in high school to read. It's the far-right who are banning Orwell and Huxley from high school libraries and demanding they be removed from public libraries. When I was in high school in the US (1960-1963), they were required reading, and thankfully enthusiastically discussed in class. I'm grateful I grew up in that era, not in the present one. But I'm concerned about the rampant far-right propaganda being shoved down my great-grandchildren's throats and the limited education they are receiving.

[@Claire-es6hz]

He lived, loved, and got a lot out of life. He was an understated genius.

[@MichelleRichee]

GREAT documentary. Thank you so much. How sad he died so young.

[@marleneamry4258]

He spoke the truth as he saw the reality, all throughout his literary life. The world needs more of his kind.

[@terryday-land9657]

George never imagined that you would become Muslims.

[@terryday-land9657]

@@anthonyberry9132 Mohamed ? Is that you?

[@vincentfelci2988]

It's way too late.

[@sandgrownun66]

@@terryday-land9657 Nope, I've read the novel, and not one mention of the Religion of Peace.

[@terryday-land9657]

True, there isn't even one beheading. @@sandgrownun66

[@kathleenlovett1958]

I recently found the book, "1984", at a thrift store. I'm just starting to read it. Thanks for the warning, MR. ORWELL.

[@moodist1er]

It's been made into a movie as well.

[@tommaguzzi1723]

He wrote many others too. The obvious one is Animal Farm. But his writings on the living conditions of the poor in England in The Road to Wigan Pier and another when he lived as a homeless person in Down and out in Londan and Paris are excellent. There is also Hommage to Catalonia where he risked own his life vollenteering to go and fight the fascists in a real shooting conflict even though he was an anti communist in the Spanish civil war. These books are all available for a few $. I'd like to say enjoy them but their messages are mostly pretty grim.

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

You'll put it down after finishing it and say "he saw it all!"

[@jamie8745]

@@beaterbikechannel2538 Like reading the Bible from beginning to end, you'll see it all - nefarious NWO and antichrist coming BUT....Jesus wins 💥

[@johnkeenlyside467]

I read most of George Orwell's books during my teens (late seventies now) and they, along with others, helped to guide my thinking and gave me a perspective which I would never have gained without them.

[@jamesrussell9261]

An absolutely humbling thing to watch, wonderfully narrated with genuine warmth and admiration for the ultimate sacrifices so many made to keep us free. In these troubled times when our current government have been a national embarrassment frankly, it is so nice to see something which restores a bit of pride in being British!

[@cheri238]

I thank you for this documentary. I also, loved George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm." Although, I go with Aldoux Huxley's "Brave New World," it is really what has been happening now in all societies everywhere for many years.❤ 🙏🌎

[@TraditionalAnglican]

Brave New World requires that we have a Post-Scarcity Society & that rich elites share their wealth with the general populace. 1984 described a Post-Discontent Society which only required the elites to create a permanent state of emergency (wars make that real easy), the ability to control the information the people saw & the willingness to use force against dissenters.

[@tommyg2966]

Take another pill

[@marcyoverby3817]

PLANNED A LONG TIME AGO..

[@Tetarkall]

1984 and animal farm were mandatory to read for me in high school. The meaning of them didn’t sink in for me until i started seeing cancel culture start here in the US. And then I saw the gov start using it against groups of people. I feel like a pushback is gaining steam here right now against “protected speech” and I think it will be remembered as a historic time for America. I hope one day my country will become a respectable place again, it has been so eye opening to witness the 21st century unfold.

[@ansatreanor1]

Having lived in many countries and circumstances I see the woke groups canceling history..are they afraid to think and learn from the past? Also the control of people by fear has taken us back to loss of independent freedom and thinking by a lot if our population..sad..including in my own family.

[@a.f.7246]

@@DearestThree3 yr hand. Store up yr food. Preserve yr food

[@DerrickDeitz]

Cancel culture you mean like threatening librarians with imprisonment and banning books?

[@davehan241]

@@DerrickDeitz Seriously. Lol the amount of book burning/banning going on in the US right now is such a Ministry of Truth response.

[@philippamediwake1235]

When you know the history & a very short history at that, you will realise that America was never a respectable country once the whites arrived! It was however a respectable continent when the North American Indians ruled the land

[@haroldkirkpatrick2719]

George Orwell is one of my favorite writers. I appreciate his work 1984 more as I grow older. His life story serves as a reminder that no great man is fully understood during his life. His steadfast commitment allowed him to hone his craft and his final effort produced one of the greatest triumphs of literary genius of our age. 1984 lives on to this day as a guide post for the present and will likely illuminate our understanding for the foreseeable future. His story serves to teach us again and again the old Buddhist precept, preservice furthers.