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Thanks for the share mate

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I seriously recommend the novel to anyone who hasn't read it. A major theme is controlling the masses through a fake perpetual war using false flag attacks... Makes you think doesn't it?

The pyramid hotel in Pyongyang is the spitting image of Minitrue. Construction is being completed by an Egyptian company called Orascom. Orascom is the global contractor for the USAF.

Thats cool someone put it up on youtube!

Its also recently added to Netflix as well... Good for telling people about it etc

S+F for important info

ETA: Oh wow, I just realized this version was made in 1954... The one thats on netflix is the one released in 1984, in color

I've read the book more than a few times, and I own the version with John Hurt. I know there was an older black & white version, but I could never find it. I may watch it, but no doubt it will depress me further. We're closer to it becoming a reality now than ever before.

Originally posted by Insomniac
I seriously recommend the novel to anyone who hasn't read it. A major theme is controlling the masses through a fake perpetual war using false flag attacks... Makes you think doesn't it?

edit on 12/7/12 by Insomniac because: Typo

Although one of the main under currents running throughout the novel is the war with "Eastasia/Eurasia",the main point of the novel is the manipulation of history,information and thought through perpetual disinformation emanating from "the party" ,together with the feeling of complete and utter hopelesness engendered by this approach.

There are far too many parallels with todays political situation that can be drawn from Orwell's novel,which although the work was written as a fictional account,shows remarkable prescience for a work that was written in 1948.

Originally posted by nake13

...the main point of the novel is the manipulation of history,information and thought through perpetual disinformation emanating from "the party" ,together with the feeling of complete and utter hopelesness engendered by this approach.

There are far too many parallels with todays political situation that can be drawn from Orwell's novel,which although the work was written as a fictional account,shows remarkable prescience for a work that was written in 1948.

Agreed absolutely! As the joke suggests, It does seem to have been used as a blue print . Many true words are spoken in jest.

There is a cafeteria seen in this version with an exchange between Winston and another guy. It's a very telling scene. It talks about the culling of words from the English language. The inability to express certain ideas because the words to express those ideas no longer exist. Bad, becomes "ungood". Well, you'll just have to watch it.

Used to get the modern version on youtube, but I see it has been pulled

Read this book whilst at high school as part of our English class in about 3rd year (some other classes did Animal Farm), I note that it no longer seems to be on the school reading list for the English curriculum. Have read it since too and may just have another read as it has been a fair while. Struck me as a 'way out there hell' of a book when I was back at secondary school, didn't realise at the time that I would be seeing that very scenario, deception and surveillance unfolding in my lifetime!
Recently bought a copy from ebay for my son, before they are no longer available.

Book first please. Though Hurt was awesome in it. I loved how they used the protagonist in 1984 as the antagonist in V for Vendetta.