The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Orwell's 1984 as a path for The Strange Truth

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

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I just want to say that we have an interesting show tonight. We're going to be looking at 1984 as a blueprint for our times. I know that a lot of people are buying the book. A lot of people are rediscovering the book or finding this book for the first time, probably due to what's really been going on with our social media. You know, the censorship, the deplatforming, and everything else that, you know, is quite alarming. So it made me, I mean, I remember reading 1984. It was probably 20, 15 years ago. I was reading this book, and it made me revisit it because I start hearing all these buzzwords, you know, it's 1984 buzzwords.

You know, when you read an article or you listen to a podcast or you see some news item, right? You know, there were all these 1984 references to it. So it made me pick the book up and, you know, and reread it. And if you have read it recently, then a lot of the things that I'm going to talk about tonight, I think that you will recognize. If you haven't read it, okay, as a prepper, I think this is one of the books that all preppers should read. Because it's a warning as to how things can go when you have unchecked power. it's a warning where it can end up, you know, where socialism or communism can take us,

you know, into the world of totalitarianism. Before I get started, I just want to say to all the listeners out there, please join PBN, okay? It's little networks like this that, you know, we're keeping the truth alive. You know, the name of this show is called The Strange Truth, right? Because, you know, it's a rare commodity these days, you know, because it's all relative and it's all malleable these days and no one really ever tells us the truth anymore. What we get is really just propaganda or information, right?

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So, now we're going to talk about 1984, okay, the book 1984. And I want to start with George Orwell, okay? Don't know how much you know about him, but I'm just going to be culling a lot of this information from Wikipedia. It's open source, so we can do that. And he was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903. He's known by his pen name, George Orwell. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism in poetry and fiction. He has an interesting history. He actually did work for the BBC at one point,

and he created propaganda for the BBC at one point, and he created, you know, and, you know, he created propaganda for the BBC, something that a lot of people don't know. You know, everything that I, you know, have read about him said that he was a democratic socialist. So I thought, you know, for me, I think he lost his way there at some point. Or maybe he, you know, he just hated capitalism so much that he just couldn't bring himself to call himself a capitalist. But, you know, a lot of his books were warnings about communism. And, you know, totalitarianism. And for me, there's not much distance between democratic socialism and communism.

I think that once you head down the democratic socialist path that you end up at communism. that you end up at communism. But he has a really interesting background and I would advise anyone listening to this to look him up and read about him. If you've read the book 1984, you're probably looking around at our world and saying, is this how it all begins?

The book really is a blueprint for times. It's a warning. It gives you the extreme case of what totalitarianism is. It shows it to you nice and raw. authoritarianism is it shows it to you nice and raw and um and one has to wonder if if looking at what's going on in our society now uh is this the way it all starts this is the way we get there uh there's a a few things from 1984 that i'm going to look at tonight and uh I'll you know I've got a little bit of a list here we're going to look at the language of of Oceania. Oceania is the uh the setting for 1984 it's where the story takes place um Oceania used to be England.

And once the party took over, the name got changed. So we're going to look at the language. The language of Oceania is called Newspeak. We're going to also look at another interesting idea called thought crime. We're going to take a look at double think and the two minutes hate. So there are a few things from 1984, a few ideas, a few concepts, right, that we're going to take a look at. And we're going to try and apply them to what we are seeing going on in our country in our society actually the whole world at this point today okay uh the first thing that i want to look at is newspeak because that's the language of uh oceania it's the language of this totalitarian state. And I'm reading here, it says, the

intellectual purpose of Newspeak is to make Ingsoc-approved thoughts the only expressible thoughts, okay? Ingsoc is pretty much Newspeak for English democratic socialism, right? As constructed, Newspeak's vocabulary communicates the exact expression of sense and meaning that a member of the party could wish to express. It excludes secondary denotation and connotations. It's a simplification of the language. and connotations. It's a simplification of the language. I think that Orwell noticed that the English language was degrading, that there were certain words that weren't being used anymore. The language, even in his day, was being simplified. And I think that with that simplification of language, I think he believes with that simplification of language comes a simplification of thought. And I think that, you know, he made it quite clear in his writings what he thought about that simplification of language, that manipulation of language.

I'm going to read a little bit from, I'm going to read a little quote here. It says, by 2050, right, one of the characters, his name is Sim, he's discussing his work, he's working on the Newspeak dictionary in the book. And this is what he's explaining to Winston. Winston is the central protagonist of 1984. We see the world of Oceania through Winston's eyes and experience all the horror of that world through Winston's eyes. So there's this character, his name is Sim, and he's discussing his work and he's telling

Winston about Newspeak and this is what he says about it. By 2050, earlier probably, all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. Oldspeak is what we speak now, regular language, right? Regular English. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Shosha, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron. They'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought as we understand it now. In fact, there will be no thought as we understand it now.

Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. Orthodoxy is the doctrine of the party. The allowed doctrine of the party is called orthodoxy. Okay? And it's all about thought control. You control the language. You can control your citizens' thoughts. An interesting concept. When we look at our,

what's going on in our country today and how language is being manipulated, you know, it's the same thing that you see happening or has happened here in Oceania, right? Where the language of the society has been manipulated. The state now controls the language. The state is rewriting the language. And it leads to pretty much a paring down of thought. The whole goal was to make it so that the citizen could not have any adverse thoughts.

They really, in the book, fictional, but they really believe that if they could get the language, they could probably get the language to a point where unorthodox thoughts, meaning thoughts that were contrary to the doctrine of the party, of the society, could not be actually thought. No one could go counter to the allowed orthodox doctrine. A very interesting concept. All about thought control, all about manipulating language so that then you can control how someone thinks,

you could control pretty much how much they can think. Okay, when you get rid of complex language, then of course, you create in, you know, you create an individual, right, that can only, can only express themselves to a certain point. Interesting concept, this concept of new speak, okay? The other thing, this then leads us to the other concept of doublethink. Okay? Now, doublethink is a process of indoctrination where the subject is expected to simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.

Okay? Often in opposition to your own uh memories your own sense of reality okay double think is related to but differs from hypocrisy okay um it's it's a way of having two opposite beliefs in your mind, okay, but you will use the one that is most orthodox. Here it is, Orwell describes doublethink in 1984. And this is what he says. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out,

knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety, consciously to

induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had performed. Even to understand the word double-think involved the use of double-think. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.

So when you have a fascist calling someone else, right? When a fascist calls themselves an anti-fascist, but call, you know, their enemy a fascist, but call their enemy a fascist. When these news people, when they come on the air and they tell you facts that they've probably warped and made up, that they've probably warped and made up. And you realize that what they're saying is not true because you've seen the story someplace else, but they've twisted it. You know, double think, to know and not to know,

to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies. Meaning, you could say that the party is good, knowing that the party is not good. You could see how someone's consciousness can fragment, right? Imagine living this way day after day, right? It's just, It would be impossible after a while. People would go crazy. Orwell explains that the party could not protect its near absolute power without degrading its people with constant propaganda.

They know that without this propaganda, this state would explode. What are we seeing now with our media? We're seeing the media perpetrating and making up stories. We're seeing the media pretty much the mouthpiece of, of course, the Democratic Party, and just call it the mouthpiece of the government at this point. The Democratic Party, the Republican Party,

there's much of a difference between the two at this point. But we see the media now, the mouthpiece of the government, the Politburo of the government. The Politburo of the government. The Pravda. We see the media parroting this propaganda. The doctrine, the new doctrine that they're putting out there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And they're playing by some serious Orwellian

tactics. They use specific language. They will turn something that's usually good into something that's not. You know, certain words now are bad. I'm not going to go into those words right now, but you know that there are certain words right now. If you call yourself certain things or if you say that you like certain things, those things are now deemed bad. It's amazing how that occurs.

It's interesting with the whole Betsy Ross flag thing, right? Because at one point they were saying, well, the Betsy Ross flag was bad. It's a racist symbol, but didn't Biden have it all over? You know, wasn't it like flying there at the inauguration? That's what I mean, where they take these symbols, they take words, and they twist them to their own needs.

Anything that their perceived enemy is using, they make it bad. Any symbol, any type of self-identification, they blacken it. But then, you know, months down the line, when it suits their purposes,

those very same things that they say is, you know, really bad. If it suits their purposes, they'll use those very same things. I think they were all really worried about maybe the president, right, at one point calling in troops. But when they call in troops, it's okay. That's what I mean. You know, we have to be very, very careful with this. This psychological manipulation of the population, We have to be real careful here with what's going on. And it really does seem that no one can stop these people at this point. They have deplatformed pretty much all the opposition at this point.

We are it. Not much of an opposition, but we are it. Not much of an opposition, but we are it. And they hold a very dangerous advantage here. Is this how it all starts? Let's take a look at the two minutes hate, another concept from 1984. The two minutes hate is the daily public period during which the members of the outer party of

Oceania must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state, specifically Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers, to openly and loudly express hatred of them. The political purpose of the two minutes hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatreds towards politically expedient enemies. Goldstein and the enemy super state of the moment in redirecting the members subconscious feelings

away from the party's government of Oceania and towards non-existent external crimes, the party minimizes thought crime and the subsequent subversive behaviors

of thought criminals. I believe that every socialist, communist, despotic, dictator, any dictator, they always need, they need this two-minute hate. they always need, they need this two-minute hate. They need that symbol, right, that they can feed to the public so that the public can hate. And that distracts from their own criminality. It distracts from their own failures. Orwell wrote another book. It was called Animal Farm. And in Animal Farm,

the pigs were the ones that ran the farm after they had run the humans out. The pigs ran the farm. And they were two pigs. One was Napoleon and the other one was Snowball. Snowball was a smart, smart pig. Just as corrupt as Napoleon was, but he was a smart pig. And he really did try to do certain things that would have been really good for the farm. Napoleon didn't want any of that. Napoleon just wanted power. So one day, Napoleon pretty much chases Snowball off the farm. And once Snowball was gone, then anything bad that happened was Snowball's fault. He got blamed for, you know, if it was a bad harvest or, you know, if it snowed, it was Snowball's fault. Everything was Snowball's fault. In 1984, it was Emmanuel Goldstein. He was the number one enemy of the state. And they would put up these films of him saying all of these really horrible

things or and um you know the party members would would scream at at at uh goldstein they would direct all their their rage at this person we had a version of the two minutes hate in this country. We had it for four years. But it wasn't just, you know, a daily two minute, you know, thing. It was 24 hours, seven days a week. They made sure

that they made Mr. Trump they made him they made him Emmanuel Goldstein. For four years,

nonstop, there was the two minutes hate. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He became the snowball. And I am even thinking that even into the Biden administration, he is going to be the snowball. When anything goes wrong, they're going to blame him for it. And the media is going to carry this administration.

They're going to carry all the water for them. They're going to engage and they're going to keep up their two minutes hate. These concepts, when you see them, it's good to understand really what's going on. The book was written by a guy who was a master at propaganda. He did it for the BBC. It's a blueprint for what's going on right now. The other thing that I will speak about, the last thing I will speak about, is the concept of thought crime. politically unorthodox thoughts such as unspoken beliefs, doubts that contradict the orthodoxy, is in the mind of the individual. So if you have beliefs,

if you have some kind of different way of seeing things, if you have, you know, if you have a different opinion, and if it contradicts the belief, the dominant belief, and believe it or not, there might be more people out there

who might have a more conservative way of looking at the world. But when you watch your television, when you watch the media, when you watch the media, when you go online, you probably wouldn't necessarily think that because the dominant belief, you know, you see it every time you switch a movie on.

You see it every time there is an add-on. You see it every time you watch any news program. Is the progressive belief at this point. It's always, it's amazing how this usually works too. It's always a small group of people who gain power and force their beliefs onto the larger populace. It's always a small group. It's what happened in Germany

during the 20s and the 30s. Thought crime. If you, right now, the way this works, if you have something that goes counter to the the accepted right the dominant ideology then you can lose your job you can be doxxed you can possibly sometimes even lose your job. You can be doxxed. You can possibly sometimes even lose your children.

You can have your life completely ripped out from under you. Now, this is happening now in the United States of America. Think about that. I never thought that we would ever really get here. But here we are. Wasn't it shocking when the deplatforming started? Isn't it shocking the language that is being used by all these people

in the media? Yeah, well, these people need to be deprogrammed and some people are even saying they should be probably put in camps. We have this rhetoric that's going on right now that is frankly frightening and it's disturbing. going on right now that is frankly frightening and it's disturbing. Now, granted, you know, there's a lot of things that I don't agree with. You know, people have different points of view, of course, that I don't believe in personally, but I'm not going to, you know, say they should be deplatformed or deprogrammed or that, you know, I'm not, you know, I just can't mentally reach that point.

It's really frightening that a lot of the people in the media and a lot of our people in government have already reached that point. That's scary. Why are these people allowed to stay in power? Why aren't they not just voted out because they're mentally unstable people? This is America, right? We're supposed to be able to respectfully disagree and still go about our daily lives.

I mean, that is our strength. When did we become such an intolerant society? How did we get here? How did we get to 1984? How did we get to a point where we have this sinister manipulation of language? Pay attention to language, folks. Pay attention to it. Look how they use language against their enemies. their enemies.

Pay attention to this concept of double think to be able to have two contradictory ideas at the same time and to be comfortable enough to accept both of them. How is that possible?

How is it possible that we could publicly pillar a man for four years and anyone that's associated with him now, right? By association, all those people are having their lives completely destroyed. How did we get to this point?

How did we get to the point where Now If you think a certain way You've got to hide it If you want to keep your job, if you want to be able to do certain things in life, normal, regular things in life, then you cannot express certain thoughts. And those thoughts are not bad thoughts. If you're a Christian.

You know you should be able to say. Hey I'm a Christian. This is the way I think. This is what I believe. If you're conservative. You should be able to say. Hey you know this is what I think. And this is what I believe.

But. All. But all those people are being silenced. They're being told that what they're thinking is wrong. Bullied into silence. They will go through that your thoughts, if they do not conform to the dominant ideology, this progressive ideology, they're going to say that you're a criminal.

They're going to say that you're a fascist. They're going to say that you're a racist. that you're a criminal. They're going to say that you're a fascist. They're going to say that you're a racist. The fascists and the racists

and the bigots are the ones that are making and now making the rules. The crazy people are running the asylum. The whole thing is insane.

But here we are. now in a world where we're relying more and more on technological aids you know phones smart tvs computers governments are going to use this technology and it's almost it's almost such a a natural thing for them to do it, right? They're going to use that technology as a way to control the people. Right now, right, they're able to track and see, right, everything that you, you know, every time you search for something,

every time you buy or communicate online, it's all being collected, stored, sold in certain instances. Eventually, we're going to have a system just like the Chinese have that system, that unified record system is what they call it. I predict it's coming. In say another 10 years.

Another decade it will be here. Once that system comes into existence, privacy, personal freedom, and even the Constitution are going to be concepts that are going to be seen more and more in the rearview mirror. Their plan is to use the media and the internet to bombard the media and the internet

to bombard the masses, right? With their ideology, with their orthodoxy. The masses are subject to these messages 24-7. The media is saturated with it. The ideology is so overwhelming that the victim is psychologically just browbeaten into becoming a follower of the ideology. That's what's happening now.

We're all being browbeaten into this belief system the warning here that I'm sending out listeners the warning I'm sending out here is we have to be really really careful about this is this how it begins I don't even think that the people really careful about this. Is this how it begins? I don't even think that the people on the other side of this,

the regular citizens on the other side of this, fully understand because, you know, they've got the victory at this point and life is good. they've got the victory at this point and life is good. But do they really understand what they have started here?

What they have allowed to happen in this country the last four years. And now, it's going on now. They come for us. They'll come for them eventually. Eventually, they will find themselves

in a situation where, you know, they have a belief, they have an opinion, is not the popular opinion. And they'll come for them too. That's the warning here. The warning is that no one is safe now. That's where we are. Is this how it begins? 1984 is a book that every prepper should read and study because it was written of course and i've said this it was written by a guy who

you know he he did propaganda i mean he he ran propaganda out of the BBC. So it's written by someone who's an expert. Someone who studied this most of his life. And it gives us an insight, a really A really good insight as to what's going on now in our world. So I say, pick it up. Read it. Look at some of these ideas. It might help us to negotiate the next couple of years. To be able to fight the next couple of years. To be able to fight the next couple of years. Because we're going to have to try to fight this in our own way, right?

We're going to use our words. We're going to use our own intellect to try to defeat this fatalistic, this narcissistic, this nihilistic way of thinking. This is not what the United States is about. It's not about bro-beating more than half of the population into a belief, a way of thought, agreement. So, that's my thoughts about what's going on. I just want to end with another book that they're playing by the rules, and we all know it, right? Saul Alinsky, his book, radicals right you know I think a lot of a lot of the people who are in the media they you know they went to college and they all read they're all probably read Alinsky's book it was probably passed around right and and they're playing by

by Alinsky's rules and and there are 13 rules here and I'm going to read them to you. Because I want you to know the game these people are playing. Here are the rules. Here are Zelinsky's rules. Number one, power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. Two, never go outside the expertise of your people. 3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. 4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. 5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It's almost impossible to counter attack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage. 6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. 8. Keep the pressure on. 9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. 10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. 11. If you push a negative hard and keep enough, it will break through into its counterside. This is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. 13. Freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. I'll say 13 again. This is going to sound very familiar. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Those are Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. Those are the rules that the opposition right now, they're playing by. Not the American way.

Not the American way at all. It was shocking when everyone was deplatformed. It was shocking to see good people lumped in with the bad. It was shocking to see how everyone in the media just went along with it. No one saw the danger. Or if they saw the danger, they ignored it because it profited them. Is this how it all starts?

Thanks for listening to the strange truth tonight. A very interesting conversation. A lot of things to think about here. This is Carl B. Until next time. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show