Classic Movies#38: 1984
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Classic Movies#38: 1984
We dive into the Godfather of all authoritarian dystopias.
Endeavor and I pour ourselves a Victory Gin, roll up a cig full of secondhand tobacco dust, and jump into the relentlessly bleak and infamous dystopian world of the film of Orwell’s 1984. We discuss whether 1984 has become an overused meme that was supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook. I also read extracts from Goldstein’s subversive text within the novel and compare Orwell’s Foreward to Burnham’s Managerial Revolution.
Perhaps most importantly, we pose the question: How can a society familiar with 1984 begin to resemble it?
Good stream, however...
I have serious doubts about a North Korean style state appearing in the West now. The multi-ethnic and multi-cultural makeup of modern western countries is too chaotic to control. Added to that, rapidly declining economies which will no longer be able to financially or technologically support a high tech secuirty apparatus. National power grids are already starting to fail.
With national health care systems already failing, how will they be able to fight off Monkey pox or Ebola pandemics or handle antibiotic drug resistance? They can't even provide decent dental care in the UK. Life expectancy is about to plummet.
Western militaries are now in gross decline. I don't see how they will be able to wage WW3 and maintain order at the same time.
In two or three years, with the police hamstrung by wokery, underfunded, and filled with incompetents, I doubt many western countries will be able to maintain law and order at all.
With on-time delivery and collaping supply chains, people will starve. Medicine will disappear from the shelves.
The appeal of governments is the offer of protection, secuirty and an orderly society. Modern western governments no longer appear interested in doing any of that. How will the elites fly on private jets if DEI destroys industry? Who will maintain their swimming pools and provide them with botox? It seems their ideology is so backward and untenable that it beggars belief.
I would like to add that the Soviet Union had vast resourances to draw upon, most western countries don't. North Korea is being propped up by Russia and China (for the moment), but would collapse completely without their support.
I think we are heading for civilizational collapse, anarchy, and a new dark age.
Or maybe WW3 and a nuclear war.
I loved this book and movie. It truly transformed my worldview and showed me the extent these lunatics might go to suppress any dissident thought and action. The only aspect that I found unbelievable when I was younger was the Anti-Sex League of Women. It was a very libertine time during those years and it seemed other young people had no hangups. The girls if anything were more fixated on hooking up. Now, with MeToo and the rise of the regretful hags, I see how this movement would be used by the system to pit young men and women against each other and find each other suspect (just as the MGTOW and Femcel cat ladies are showing us now). Very bleak book but necessary.