The Paradox of Being a Good Person – George Orwell’s Warning to the World

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this seems like a good place to start villain arc

The entire video he’s talking about how every choice we make can lead us to a potentially dangerous future only to conclude the video with “but at least nothing matters anyways” and maybe that’s what matters! HUH???

Dude, the democrats are clearly the party of the thought police and have a monopoly on language, changing constantly to fulfill their agenda. Oh but Orwell was a democrat! Discussing the horror of capitalism (gasp)! Nice try. People aren't that dumb. Have you even read 1984??? Thought not

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In my home country Hungary it was banned, the first translation came out 50 years later. They didn't want people to realize that they are living in this nightmare written in the book…Interestingly the youth that revolted against became just the same over the years, just within the frames of an illiberal democracy. It gave me chilles to read the book, as they do the propaganda the same way, enemies become allies and the statistics are falsified to back up their power.

Around 13 minutes in, the narrator exposes their bias by saying that though Orwell spoke against Socialism and its false virtues, that Orwell remained a proud socialist. The narrator is quite Orwellian.

People gotta quit being so concerned about being a good person and being moral all the time. It's just narcissism. You don't get a great society by having everyone constantly concerned with AM I GOOD AM I DOING IT RIGHT AM I MORAL AM I A GOOD BOY?? You get a dystopian communist shithole where people get chopped up en masse and thrown in a ditch. Which is Orwell's point. And he started off as one of them!

Well, we are already at the level of 1984. Language is being heavily simplified and is becoming more and more bland and generic. Everyone has multiple devices that constantly listen to them and watch over everything we look at on the screen, studying and keeping records. In countries like China, cameras with facial recognition always follow your every move, to the point that they can administer fines and take away your social points if you just cross the street outside of zebra crossing.
We call "ministry of education " entities that ultimately are slowly but surely eroding the quality of public education. We call "ministry of defence" entities that wage wars around the globe. We are convinced that more police equals more safety, while it only means more control from those up above.
We cannot freely say what we want, in the way we want to say it, pending the risk of being banned from various social media platforms… and in our society if you are not on the internet, you don't exhist. We constantly put gag on our mouths in fear of being erased.
I don't see how more true what Orwell foretold can become.

You say there’s no such thing as objective truth, only compassion etc. does that not reveal an objective truth, that it is better to be good than evil?

Orwell’s work is chilling especially when looking at the world today. The totalitarianism we’re facing now isn’t one party but the billionaire class that is ruling and ruining the world. If he was alive today he would be distraught to see where we are. We’ve allowed the world to use his works as instruction manuals instead of warnings.

Excellent video. Hope you will someday make one on Huxleyian philosophy which is more relevant now than ever.

Orwell was very much horrified by and opposed to communism after seeing it in action (he witnessed the killing of anarchists by communists) in Spain.
Why don't you just say it?

I was surprised at first, back round 2014 when I got attacked for actually going about taking a legal court structure in minneapolis mn to court to challenge a bum deal I got struck, and was heavily plausible. It made sense, given the level I stood and personaly percieved that I'd be bothered – by breaches of confidentiality to a hoarse public by the unskilled and certifiably ineligible 'proffesionals' I'd the misfortune to encounter, upto whichpoint – , but shit got quite horrendous after I'd actually tried leaving the situation after I'd figured I was outmatched, and headed off to florida, only to find I was being followed by them sorry sorts on internet fed smartphones, being fed malicious intel on me by what could only be explained by them inept staff themselves. Such a scenario would only explain the floridian sheriffs deputies starin' at me a little too hard soon as I got off the bus in miami, and found abuncha'
off-timed responses from legal 'help' on my own cellphones voicemail. Returned to mn, and was shocked further after I'd found billboards and local television just short of harassing my name directly, but surely enough as it were. Algorithms and such. Makes sense, your video on 'the internets dying': Catalyst of which would only be two years from what I describe, and incorporates elitism, and the shift to a open ended world wide web safeguard for such, which at the convenient same while has the power to shake and instill into the public an 'algorithm' of chasin' their tails, shootin' up fentanyl, totilatarian government expenditure, and the biden, trump and harris circus act, mesmorizing enough to that 'animalized' public, which is apparently now incorporating governor walz for being a part of a job well done, given my summary, here.
Good channel you got, by the way.

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This video offers such an insightful analysis of Orwell's warnings about truth and power! It really makes you reflect on the relevance of his works in today’s world.

I love not man less, but nature more.

– Byron

This video is amazing. I remember reading Orwell's Animal Farm in Highschool. His name left my mind but his message stuck with me forever.

trumpy warnings?

As I write comments on youtube, I'm constantly thinking about all the words that I must avoid using so that the AI algorithm doesn't silently remove my post. All the words that are silently removed from our vocabulary. Did the people who implemented this AI not read 1984? Or did they read it and think – that's a great idea!

Orwell gave us a warning.

It has been used as a blueprint.

The animals wake up, and does exactly what mankind did = pushed the other half away.. The feminine's return.. No consequences …

Cisgender, bicurious, non-binary, bigender, demisexual, gender fluid, pansexual, skoliosexual………not 1984, but 2024 newspeak.

Don't bother with his fiction, delve into his reportage according to what piques your interest.

This video has nothing to do with the "Paradox of being a good person".