"there was truth and there was untruth and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world you were not mad 1984 by George Orwell is one of the most impactful books ever written it has been wide..."

"it goes the world in the book 1984 is a dystopian future Society Nation maybe you can say super State named Oceania it's fully controlled by a totalitarian political party called inksock it's led by B..."

"them Ministry of truth it's responsible for propaganda and like I said rewriting history Ministry of Love is responsible for brainwashing people through torture mystery of Plenty is responsible for ra..."

"ministry of Truth where he rewrites history like I mentioned Julia is a dark-haired girl who Winston falls in love with and she with him they have sex and this is maybe a good place to mention that pa..."

"so a few key takeaways and I'll try to do my best I have disparate notes that I took for myself I'll try to do my best to try to integrate them together to make some cohesive thoughts and part of the ..."

"convert them into words so the first one for me especially later in life is I've been reading this book is that when everything else are most things that make you human have taken away by those around..."

"the note reading I love you is the kind of revolutionary Act that leads to a society beyond the one they exist in I think a lot of the book has an interesting hypocrisy to it where the main character ..."

"totalitarian one is overthrown um what else do I want to say there's an interesting tension there between love and sex or lust I think there's a quote that pure love or pure lust was impossible or for..."

"versus building Beyond The Horizon when the state Falls so some quotes from Winston on this the more men you've had sex with so Julia admitted to have sex with quite a lot of people he says the more m..."

"love and I think family love is a really powerful bond that connects us and that's one of the things that the totalitarian States really go after and I should actually mention sort of loosely using te..."

"about totalitarianism anyway as I was saying on family I think the way they destroy family one of course uh with your romantic partner forbidding passion uh passionate sex but really just passion long..."

"all cases that figure while there is a human associated with it it's really much bigger than the human and that's the only love you're allowed to have so the other takeaway I have is on the topic of h..."

"and because that that feeling that drug that hypnotic uh isn't that mass hypnosis that you feel can be directed by the state into any direction and because you have complete control history you can di..."

"overstate it I think just like comparing things to Hitler comparing things to 1984 I think is a reach in most cases but social media does reveal this kind of mass hysteria this capacity of humans to b..."

"this because I had the exact same feeling as I was this time uh rereading it there's a comment from a Reddit user whose name is a brave sky 6764. uh he said the conversation between Lex and Michael Le..."

"so yes as the the redditor breaks guy 67-64 says that does actually give you a perspective of a biological system where it's a bunch of living organisms each one of us are made up of a bunch of living..."

"corrupted by it and I think people on the left in the United States and people on the right can both be corrupted by power so this kind of one-way uh criticism of left-wing policies as orwellian is a ..."

"the the criticism of the book was against totalitarianism of a centralized state that controls speech thought you know the press and all the basic human basic basic human freedoms controls truth and I..."

"surveillance uh state of double think of controlling language um of being in a constant state of War as a way to control the population and the flow of resources all those things have elements of uh a..."

"and of course there's been a lot of discussion about free speech and the freedom of thought and there's a lot to be said there that's much more nuanced than the book 1984. provides I think 1984 just s..."

"slipping into authoritarianism and maybe I have a few more things to say about the latter part of the book the part where there's torture where there's room 101 that has the thing you fear the most wh..."

"one of the things I uh talked to Andrew about is whether it's possible to control perception through to these kinds of things and it seems that there is literature that shows it's possible to literall..."

"but the thing I'd like to research into more is if that can be long lasting is that I just don't believe it can be if you're not pushed to your death yes maybe perception maybe your willingness to thi..."

"that you just learn your body your mind learns to hide uh the truth from yourself like you're not you don't even allow yourself to think it because you know if you think it is going to lead to face cr..."

"the fact that you said torture her not me anything to make this stop the fact that you said that the fact that you thought that is a is is a is a statement is a thought you can't walk back to yourself..."

"but the claim of the book that yes the totalitarians they can use torture to break even that even that uh which leads to the only love you're allowed to have which is the love for Big Brother so I thi..."

"like a a sense of where you are like to have hope you have to have a sense of where you are and where things could be and that and then you also portray yourself like to force you to be a hypocrite on..."

"sort of non-newspeak that means the party and you speak and all of its elements that we see in the story is in the past that the world from which the book is created has escaped that and that's a mess..."

"uh there might be either a Winston observation or an O'Brien statement I'm not sure but yes so you have to think eighty percent plus our pros of the working class they have the power if they want it b..."

"is all you need for the party to persist that person doesn't actually have to exist and you one individual doesn't have to exist it's just the uh division of society into high middle and low and the o..."

"better world I think at least in my sense it's easy to get distracted by the little things that bother you in life and I think staying focused on the big things again picking your battles and staying ..."

"that's the way to solve those big problems and of course that's not what Julia is talking about but in a sense she is also because in that particular case a totalitarian state is the problem and the w..."

"it wasn't fun because uh it was just it was just a silly kid me kind of in a joyful New Year's mood sharing with the world books I love and I think what was happening and this seems to be happening a ..."

"deserve returning to and like I said there are old friends that give me a lot of meaning every time I return to revisit the ideas and give me a new perspective on life uh another criticism was very ki..."

"a large number of people did people have respect yeah I'll be lying if I said it wasn't it didn't suck a bit anyway the the love for reading um persists I have to say after that I was very hesitant to..."

"reading but in general what I do is I read about one hour a day of Kindle so on on the sort of in my eyes physical device and uh depending on the workout I do and the chores I have it's going to be ab..."