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Book · 2016 · Juvenile Fiction

1984

by George Orwell · Recommended by 73 people on 20 podcasts

Why people recommend it

1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme government surveillance, historical negationism, and psychological manipulation. Dan Houser expressed his appreciation for the novel on the Lex Fridman Podcast after experiencing it during COVID, while Pamela Paul strongly recommended reading it alongside Orwell's essays on The Book Review. Meghan Murphy brought up the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, noting that a reread made her realize how terrifyingly similar contemporary society is to Orwell's depiction of a population following government restrictions without question. Gavin de Becker similarly cited the novel on the show when discussing state attempts to control information, and Luke Rudkowski quoted its famous line regarding statistical sanity on Timcast IRL, naming it among his favorite books. Additionally, Hamilton Morris utilized the novel on Modern Wisdom as a prime example of a enduring classic illustrating the Lindy effect, and John Sweeney playfully suggested leaving copies in bars while traveling through Belarus and Russia.

Who recommended it

Tim Pool — 15 mentions
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“1984 you've got the government lock down and collusion and censorship it's a little bit of all of them it's a crock pond it's Animal Farm of all of it”
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“George Orwell talks about this uh in 1984 you need these people to be programmable”
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“this is the one of the Prophecies of 1984.”
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“they're telling you that we're fighting for freedom and then simultaneously it is 1984”
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“you know this alaska airline thing really unsettled me because it reminded me not of 1984 which is technically fiction but of actual historical events”
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“have you read 1984 i have not it's great it's by george orwell about dystopian reality in the year 1984 um and he wrote it before the year”
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“have you ever read 1984 it's a it's a the orwell book there's a point yeah the ministry of truth is like this realities are in the book they have this hour of hate where every day they have everybody sits in front of the tv for an hour and just thinks about hate”
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“daniel maxwell says reads luke's shirt so who wishes that george orwell had not been so accurate with his predictions for the future i mean i like it boy did i call it or what i think he's like yeah fantastic writer if you guys haven't read 1984 in animals well he's a fascinating person”
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“you know we had this teenage girl snitched on her parents and this is like totally 1984 level stuff that we're starting to see so kind of depressing”
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“well in 1984 you know the fictional book they indoctrinated the children to be the snitch making sure that they would get all the adults in in trouble for wrong think”
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“it's like all of these books that we used to read 1984 brave new world and ran it's all happening right now all at once like crashing into each other”
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“have they read any orwell recently i'm not talking about in childhood like read 1984 now like now they're saying two plus two is five”
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“1984 or 1984. Is that what 1984 was like everything was known like everything was probably yeah it's more everything was known the panopticon look man what if you are you know 20 and you're like i think you know um what's it what's it i can't think what's it”
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“i'm not 1984 man there are the woke on twitter are literally arguing two plus two can equal five by s”
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“and what is it saying that he who controls the past controls the present and who controls the present controls the future what is that from 1984”
Joe Rogan — 11 mentions
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“Like is this a part of an Orwell book? cuz this doesn't seem like a real person would say something like that cuz who the is going to listen to that? It doesn't make any sense. Well, George was being rather accurate in time.”
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“it's like this is it shows you how things can go that way with wrong speak and with bizarre Distortion of facts”
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“even he probably been like wow he was probably if if you could get george orwell from you know the time he wrote 1980 when did he write 84”
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“you know the telescreen in every room yes it was a crime to turn off the telescreen wow so might be headed in that direction”
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“and if anyone has read 1984 or look had a a brief understanding of History like you said you will understand what it means when we start saying 2 plus 2 is five”
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“orwell talked about this in 1984”
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“that is what is that george orwell that's 1984 that's double think”
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“one thing I've heard is that they think that if they can convince you that the world is flat when it isn't then it's kind of like in 1984 where they get people to believe that two plus two equals five”
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“and this is orwellian this is exactly what George Orwell wrote about in 1984 thought crime and face crime”
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“I wonder if people thought 1984 was going to be a big year because of the book man I remember”
Lex Fridman — 10 mentions
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“Of course, "The Trial" is a work of fiction, but I think it is often useful to go to the surreal world of literature, even of the over-the-top dystopian variety like "1984," "Animal Farm," "Brave New World," "The Trial," "The Castle," "Metamorphosis," even "The Plague" by Albert Camus, all to better understand our real world...”
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“Yeah, you've actually spoken about and described China as more akin to the dystopian world, a brave new world, the 1984, which is really interesting to think about, I think about that a lot of recently reread, over the past couple of years we read 'Brave New World' a couple of times, and also '1984'.”
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“I remember reading "1984," where, sorry for the dark turn of our conversation, but through torture you can make people say”
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“I remember reading '1984,' where, sorry for the dark turn of our conversation, but through torture you can make people say anything and essentially remember anything. I wonder to which degree there's truth to that.”
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“Is it legally possible to create extra protections for certain kinds of literature, like '1984' or similar works, to remain in the curriculum? Already, all literature is protected, I guess.”
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“I mean, to say, when I did the one video on a book, 1984, I really enjoyed it. That whole process, it was fun.”
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“Animal Farm remains one of my favorite books, and I'm currently re-reading '1984.'”
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“I've just I'宁m rereading 1984 now uh it's been politicized that book in general yeah but to me it's a love story”
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“and also in 1984. portrayed Trotsky as a a snowball in Animal Farm”
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“so i remember i mean you read 1984 by georgia where it talks about double think and double speak”
Chris Williamson — 8 mentions
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“But as anyone that's read 1984 knows, the breadth of your language is directly proportional to your ability to think the thoughts that the language enables.”
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“I am I can't work out if we're closer to 1984 or Brave New World. It feels like some awful love child of both. I think it's Brave New World. I agree. Yes, it is but it's not a love child like 50/50. You know, sometime in the future they're going to figure out how to engineer our DNA so”
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“so you read 1984 which has been around for 50 years it's probably going to be around for another 50 years”
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“if you have not read 1984 you have to go and read it especially if you like the idea of what George is talking about here I learned more from 1984 about the way that I operate then I have done from a lot of personal development self development books”
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“if a books been around like 1984 has been around for about 50 years movie 7 years actually you can preview it will be around for another 70”
Recommended
“so 1984 George Orwell like really good easy read a lot of implications that you can if you're a bit of a self development sort of buff that you can take and apply to your own life”
Discussed
“I read uh so sacrilege, I know, but I only read 1984 last year. Um and that book, some of the conclusions that I drew from that piss all over so many non-fiction like productivity books.”
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“If you've read 1984 we know that a restriction in language is essentially the same as a restriction in thinking because without the capacity to articulate the thought you essentially can't have the thought itself”
Jeffrey Wasserstrom — 4 mentions
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“You can buy '1984' in a Chinese bookstore, you've been able to since 1985. You can buy again, it's not about China, and actually for some people within China in the mid 1980s, where they focused on the part of 1984, that's like the two minutes of hate...”
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“You can buy "1984" in a Chinese bookstore, you've been able to since 1985.”
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“In fact, in 1949, Orwell sent his former teacher a copy in '1984' and said, you know, 'Look, I've written this,' basically it's kind of almost a little edible like 'I've written this book that displaces yours,' he didn't say that, he just said, 'I want you to have this.'”
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“And then there's 'Animal Farm in 1984' is a second book.”
Jordan B. Peterson — 3 mentions
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“and then I read 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World.”
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“and so now the more the power is the more the waves will the bigger the waves will be and so the image of the image that 1984 presented to us you know of of people going into newspapers and changing the the the headlines and taking the pictures out and doing that that now obviously can happen with just”
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“Justin can go on about how horrific the justice system of the Supreme Court is while up here he plays a game halfway between Animal Farm in 1984.”
Marc Andreessen — 3 mentions
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“and you know famously in 1984 you know as you mentioned there there you know there's this concept of the telescreen which is basically the one-way propaganda broadcast device”
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“so you know the movie uh or the uh the novel became a movie but uh the 1984 right the sort of the orwellian Orwell um you know totalitarian kind of thing that people use as a metaphor the technology in the novel 1980 and basically basically television”
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“so the movie uh or the uh the novel became a movie but uh the 1984 right”
Pamela Paul — 3 mentions
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“I want to add in favor of Orwell that not only should people of course read 1984 and his excellent essay politics in the English language but also”
Discussed
“the parallels between Orwell's writing in particular and today are obvious and as you know 1984 has been sort of the surprise runaway besteller of the moment”
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“I mean such memories you know in 1984 if you were in school in 1984 you were assigned 1984 to read it was just a given”
Yeonmi Park — 3 mentions
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“it is George 1984 they create double speak”
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“so only reading Georgia 1984 and the animal farm that's when I understood what happened to my people”
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“I was starting reading Georgia West animal farm in 1984.”
Michael Malice — 3 mentions
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“I see on your bookshelf, I think the world is a lot closer to "Brave New World" than it is to "1984".”
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“No, I think it’s like in '1984', the two minutes of hate; there is a part of humans that wants to be tribal and wants to direct anger and get hateful.”
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“um so i and what else is very useful is it's a lot i think we're a lot closer to brave new world than 1984. it's a lot easier to manipulate a population through pleasure than through force and through oppression”
Jeff Kaplan — 2 mentions
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“Well, I've been reading, you know, 1984 or Green Hills of Stranglethorn, and I think it's amazing. And now I'm gonna try to write something that somebody is gonna read.”
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“"I read 1984," "and I'm going to write the next 1984."”
Gavin de Becker — 2 mentions
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“And yeah, the we are participating in I won't even call it an experiment, but a process that you read 1984, I'm sure, and most of your audience did. I was very heartened during the beginning of COVID that 1984 became the 17th best-selling book in the world in the English language.”
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“mean if you read 1984 still a fantastic book”
Tommy Vietor — 2 mentions
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“it's something out of like you know 1984 one of these books where it's just like really is a slippery slope”
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“but like you know it's it really reminds you of 1984 in the slippery slope no slippery slope in 1984”
Alexandra Alter — 2 mentions
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“and so to a lot of other people it seems like there's been a massive surge in sales for Orwell's classic novel 1984”
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“there was a period where the bestseller list was dominated by Margaret Atwoods the handmaid's tale George Orwell's 1984 and even stclair Lewis's novel”
Jann Wenner — 2 mentions
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“or I recently read 1984 which is we were at 1984. now I mean if you think about the internet and you think you have in your pocket a device every day the phone which tracks you which can be now turned on to listen to you without your knowledgeing”
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“or I recently read 1984 which is we were at 1984. now I mean if you think about the internet and you think you have in your pocket a device every day the phone which tracks you”
Brendan O'Neill — 2 mentions
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“And but this is where we really get to the Orwellian stage of what's going on right now because this is the sacrifice of news to ideology. And that is literally the storyline of 1984.”
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“and that is literally the storyline of 1984 Winston Smith's job in 1984 in the ministry of Truth is to rewrite news articles to ensure that they Accord with the ideology of the party”
Dan Kokotov — 2 mentions
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“i mean 1984 is good of course as well like if you're talking about you know dystopian novels of the future”
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“i mean 1984 is good of course as well like if you're talking about you know dystopian novels of the future yeah it's a slightly different view of the future right but i kind of like identify with the world but more”
Jordan Harbinger — 2 mentions
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“so this is very 1984 if you've read that book every house has a speaker inside it that you can't turn off”
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“so this is very 1984 if you've read that book every house has a speaker inside it that you can't turn off and it plays quote unquote the news”
Tim Poole — 2 mentions
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“I guess we're kind of like 1984 yet it hasn't really hit the fan”
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“at least nineteen eighty four would be funny then I drag I guess that's true”
Anthony Cumia — 2 mentions
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“now it if you read 1984 years ago you couldn't fathom things getting like that”
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“And the hacky thing obviously is to bring up 1984 and and the way language was used uh in that book and and it's so real.”
David Sacks — 1 mention
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“So, I do worry about the potential for AI to be used to surveil us, censor us, control us as Orwell described in 1984. So, if that's where the Pope is going with this, I very much agree with him.”
Dan Houser — 1 mention
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“- Love 1984. Had never listened to it or read it, and then I think I did it on Talking Book”
William Happer — 1 mention
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“Yeah, that that's one of the parts of Orwell's 1984 that many people forget, but a big part of that was every day there was two minutes of hate. And so people seem to have this need for hatred, you know, you have to have a part of the day where you can hate something or somebody and so if”
Brian Eno — 1 mention
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“It might be a huge world like uh you know George Orwell's 1984. That's a whole world completely thought out.”
Mo Gawdat — 1 mention
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“You you remember 1984 and the Orwellian approach of like you know freedom is slavery and war is peace”
Stephen Horn — 1 mention
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“We got uh XOD says the four light scene from the Next Generation is actually from 1984 where the agent from the thought police asks how many fingers he's holding up and shocks Winston until he believes there's five fingers when there's only four.”
Will Storr — 1 mention
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“So, so, so, so yeah, in a stories a deal, I tell the story of um, well, I sort of pose a question really like about like um, one of the most famous ads that was ever made was Apple's 1984 ad which which which kind of played on the George Orwells novel and showed um, and showed this um,”
Bubba the Love Sponge — 1 mention
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“I actually graduated in 1984 and us and it was mandatory reading for us to read that book our sophomore year in it yeah we to read it too”
Bob Amsterdam — 1 mention
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“They are charging them with psycholinguistic crimes What's that This is out of 1984 psycholinguistics This is basically alleging that what they're saying has meanings similar to what Putin says And therefore it's a crime”
Chris Hayes — 1 mention
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“between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World”
Konstantin Kisin — 1 mention
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“especially cuz I read it in high school I think which was already 1984”
Dominic Cummings — 1 mention
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“it's a much easier version than 1984 where they have to retroactively go back and actually change what happened”
Alexander Alter — 1 mention
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“last week on the podcast we were talking about the total Spike and S for George Orwells 1984 which is said like what's old”
Thomas Ricks — 1 mention
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“Churchill read 1984 twice and loved it but as you say never met or well remember the hero of 1984 is name Winston”
Louis Menand — 1 mention
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“I wrote a chapter on Orwell because he seemed like logically I had to write about 1984 and then a chapter on existentialism”
Jennifer Szalai — 1 mention
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“shortly thereafter sales of 1984 shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list”
Nick Bostrom — 1 mention
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“and and there's like a number of these that most people would like the you know 1984 Brave New World handmaid's taale like all of these”
Roger Waters — 1 mention
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“before we do the song sheep the last thing be it says all was right to warn Us in Brave New World in 1984 and Aldous Huxley was right to warn us of the coming dystopia in in”
Meghan Murphy — 1 mention
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“like i like i feel like everybody needs to reread 1984. actually when i got to mexico the first book that i read i write like the last time i read it was in like college or maybe even high school or something and i reread it and it was terrifying”
Stephen Pinker — 1 mention
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“i mean it's uh one could imagine you know the boots stamping on a face one of the forever lines of 1984 where you can't reform the system because the system is unreformable precisely because the vested interests won't let it be reformed”
Daniel Schmachtenberger — 1 mention
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“i think it's like if you remember the 1984 i had to bring it back to apple”
Kurt Metzger — 1 mention
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“it is right out of the Orwell Playbook to change the definitions change the words it's right out of the book and everyone”
Ben Bowlin — 1 mention
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“1984 was pulled up was the one of the first books to be pulled off the Kindle”
David Pakman — 1 mention
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“When I made that one video on the book 1984, I really enjoyed it. That whole process was fun. I don't think I've ever thought as hard about a book as I had to when making that video.”
Michael Brendan Dougherty — 1 mention
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“in George Orwell's 1984 the main character Winston Smith his employment is in rewriting news articles to fit with the the political line of the day and he talks about like he literally talks about like the spirit of the work and like getting caught up in it”
Megyn Kelly — 1 mention
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“it is a suggestion that like we ourselves I mean I mean there's also like a make work aspect to this right like in in George Orwell's 1984 the main character Winston Smith his employment is in rewriting news articles to fit with the the political line of the day and he talks about like he literally talks about like”
Edward Frenkel — 1 mention
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“- To the political complexity of 'two plus two equals five' in George Orwell's '1984.' I was in the Soviet Union in 1984, and in many ways, I see that the novel was prescient.”
Mia Wong — 1 mention
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“so his two favorite books in this period are 1984 an animal farm”
Brian Krassenstein — 1 mention
Luke Rudkowski — 1 mention
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“and this is why I think sanity is not statistical that's a quote from 1984 it's one of my favorite books”
Buck Sexton — 1 mention
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“it is as though they read Orwell's 1984 not as a warning but as a how-to book like maybe we should pick up you know the trust and Safety Committee”
Will MacAskill — 1 mention
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“depending on what that ideology is like could be very bad indeed you know some something like what you got in 1984 George Orwell with the handmaid's tale Mark outward”
James O'Keefe — 1 mention
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“um but uh of course we live in a clown world where uh two plus two equals five to quote your george orwell the late and great george orwell from 1984”
Rob Reid — 1 mention
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“what changed all of that well a lot of things did but i think a very big thing that changed all that was the novel 1984 1984 was written in 1948”
Steven Bartlett — 1 mention
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“i think the main thing that i learned from 1984 reading that is the volume of your vocabulary and the accuracy of the words that you use directly influences the quality of your thoughts”
Dan Pfeiffer — 1 mention
Clifton Duncan — 1 mention
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“yeah you know this it's a 1984 world where you're looking at a picture of a blue square and you keep telling everyone it's a red circle”
Hamilton Morris — 1 mention
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“If something has been around for a while the classics have been around for a long time so you read 1984 which has been around for 50 years it's probably going to be around for another 50 years”
John Sweeney — 1 mention
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“go to by the way go via belarus um take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Dmitri Dolgov — 1 mention
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“orwell's 1984. uh and i you know you asked what made an impression on me and books that people should read that one i think falls in the category of both now you know definitely it's one of those books that you read and you just kind of you know put it down and you stare in space for a”
Yaron Brook — 1 mention
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“and in 1984 84 is published a couple of years after I think after an there's reason to believe he read he read Anthem”
Ryan Hartwig — 1 mention
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“with these 1984 isn't it so bizarre like you couldn't say people's names backwards we should stop that no i mean like wasn't that literally in the book where it was like a person's name wasn't allowed to be said or something”
Jim Mullane — 1 mention
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“I was the example about 1984 that it taught me more about appreciating the power of my thoughts than pretty much any other self-development book could have done”
Kate Darling — 1 mention
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“and then suddenly we're living in like 1984 which you know sounds extreme, but that book was very prescient”
Tucker Max — 1 mention
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“read 1984 write read 1984 and that tells you all that you need to know about how language is related to the thoughts that we have in our brains”
Neil deGrasse Tyson — 1 mention
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“I saw the movie 1984 recently not a very good movie the book is better than the movie”
George MacGill — 1 mention
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“so like double Fink which comes from George Orwell's 1984 right which to hold 2 contradictory beliefs”
Dr Debra Soh — 1 mention
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“I mean it's it's a throwback to Orwell obviously in 1984”
Bryan Fogel — 1 mention
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“and what that is is that George Orwell that's 1984”
Tyler Cowen — 1 mention
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“you know in George Orwell's 1984 the party bands all are regular verbs”
Dave Rubin — 1 mention
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“basically they're they're creating an atmosphere where almost everything I mean it really feels 1984 orwellian reverse everything is this sort of double speak and and reverse of how we're supposed to have debate”
Thaddeus Russell — 1 mention
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“actually I mean if you look at 1984 that's what that is that book is that book is about endless war that's the theme of that book”
Shane Smith — 1 mention
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“and if that that's not 1984 that makes 1984 look like a [ __ ] you know children's you know fairy tale”
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“they're they're Winston they're like none of us is Winston from 1984 we're all like the Rando other people just going around our lives walking our dogs but we're not in 1984 ration”
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“I think yeah we've all read 1984 I mean it's it's hard to to not see some comparisons and talk about them”
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“that's you know what reminds me of the telescreens in 1984 which were like on this on one level seen as like a luxury and as like a really cool technological Gadget where you could watch all of these whatever entertainment you so wished but it was a two-way thing”
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“Oh, that's where the 'Four Lights' comes from; MHC you, everybody now associates it with Star Trek. He does the whole thing because at the end, the very end of '1984,' he's actually saying, 'I love Big Brother.'”
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“That was the whole... you know, in 1984, the reason they wanted to go ahead and go with Newspeak is because they wanted to get rid of the ability to think bad thoughts. You need to invent ideas or discover them, however you want to describe it.”
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“The family of the Indian that the Washington Redskins logo was drawn after wants them to change their name back to the Redskins, like the Cleveland Indians; now they’re the Guardians. It's, I mean, it’s Orwellian; it’s 1984.”
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“Family, religion, history, truth, logic, borders— This is why 1984 is being beautiful, because that was part of 1984.”
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“I posit to you guys, this is what Orwell once upon a time described as a double plus ungood situation! This is like, you can just cut this out and just put it in the book where the definition is supposed to be!”
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“Read 'The Gulag Archipelago,' read '1984,' read 'Brave New World.' Go deeper; that is the regime's hate an informed population.”
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“I don't know how these people break out of it; that's why I'm so excited about the RFK Jr. thing though, because that is a sledgehammer to the 1984 TV screen of Big Brother.”
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“Right, when he wrote Animal Farm and 1984; those books are warnings based on the totalitarian systems of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. And again, they're meant to be warnings, not instruction manuals.”
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“I mean, it's a [___] great book to read; it was written in 1949, and how many—how accurate it is today?”
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“Yeah, it’s all spelled out in 1984, the documentary.”
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“I think everybody should read 1984 and read about Bernie Goetz. I’m just looking at Wikipedia right now; I’ve known about it passively; I’ve never really looked into it.”
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“This notion is captured in Orwell's 1984, which suggests that if hedonistic will exists against other wills, it cannot represent a common will.”
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“Some of it is hidden, to be sure, but some of it, even outside the government, is almost reminiscent of Orwell in '1984'. It talks about the fact that Big Brother has an inner party and an outer party.”
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“George Orwell has this preface, I believe it was for 1984; I'm not sure of the exact details now—it was around the time of World War II—and it was kind of considered heretical because its argument was that we think about tyranny in these melodramatic terms”
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“If I may paraphrase a line from George Orwell's 1984, to wear an improper expression on your face was itself a punishable offense.”
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“It would be— I think it would bring in, and has already in China, I think it'll bring in a totalitarian tyranny so 100% complete that it would make George Orwell's 1984 look like a picnic.”
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“The issue, however, is there's often an unholy blend of 1984 and Brave New World underlying the specifics of their invitation.”
Discussed
“I mean, like I went back and read 1984, um, recently, and I was like, oh wow, like, yeah, we have this.”
Discussed
“Orwell said we'd all be famous for 15 minutes, right? Now it's like we'll all be stars!”
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“I have read that book and it's creepy It's incredible Read 1984 if you haven't read that”
Discussed
“He makes me think have you ever read 1984 it's a it's a the orwell book there's a point yeah the ministry of truth is like this realities are in the book they have this hour of hate where every day they have everybody sits in front of the tv for an hour and just thinks about hate and that's”
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“If you guys haven't read 1984 in animals well he's a fascinating person his real name was eric blair”
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“Have they read any Orwell recently? I'm not talking about in childhood. Like read 1984 now.”
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“And this I keep bringing this up I'm gonna do again if you have not read 1984 you have to go and read it especially if you like the idea of what George is talking about here I learned more from 1984 about the way that I operate Then I have done from a lot of personal development self development”
Discussed
“so for instance nineteen eighty-four is a Lindy book it's been around for five years four words therefore you can presume it's gonna be around for at least thirty five more”
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“the other day I actually pulled up a a quote from George Orwell who uh granted this is from Wikipedia which the other day I looked up something that I knew something about and was completely inaccurate but this is according to Wikipedia George Orwell said serious sport has nothing to do with Fair Play It's a bound up it's”

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“And now look at it. Now we're all screaming at each other. And we've all written we've all read all read 1984 and here we are doing it.”
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“when COVID happened the the book 1984 be in 2021 it was the 17th bestselling book in the world.”
Passing
“So there's, like you said, 1984 is pretty. I mean, it's a caricature.”
Passing
“Not like fake 1984 efficient like Doge, right?”
Passing
“and it just feels another like a very 1984 kind of thing.”
Passing
“And I hope for future where both Hong Kong and Beijing have bookstores that carry '1984,' 'Brave New World,' and all of your books.”
Passing
“we've all read 1984 I mean it's it's hard to to not see some comparisons and talk about them”
Passing
“but it would appear that we are moving more and more into a 1984 esque you know model of Truth where like you don't know what you think you know”
Passing
“what was Winston's job in 1984 right and it sort of starts to go through this whole summary”
Passing
“so I kind of think like after having gone through that whole exercise it um I don't know it's something out of like you know 1984 one of these books where it's just like it really is a slippery slope”
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“and then how many you know van go painting a painting and all those paintings being outside getting rained on and now they're selling for $100 million yeah all after he's dead all after he's dead yeah he never knew he sold one painting in his lifetime so he never got to not even a little bit experience what look”
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“What monster didn’t see that you’re going to just have people lock more people up? 1984; these fuckers—it’s George Orwell. Literally, it’s Orwell.”
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“1984 these [ __ ] it's George Orwell literally is Orwell”
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“And now we're in 1984, like legit! And you don't have to even be a genius to understand this.”
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“Yet, it can be summoned, as depicted in '1984' with the concept of the two minutes of hate; with the right rhetoric, our primal selves can be unleashed, leading to destruction.”
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“Everyone goes back to George Orwell's '1984' and says you can't be open with your thoughts, and it's been interesting to be here, experiencing that strong sentiment.”
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“and that is I think our 1984 reference is his uh this guy who was like the the milk toast liberal”
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“And that is, I think, our 1984 reference, is his, uh, this guy who was like the milquetoast liberal that's like secretly sinister is named Winston.”
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“you know we saw in the first few months of this year this huge surge in sales for classic dystopian novels 1984 Brave New World uh the handmaid's tale which is still selling briskly”
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“her dystopia feels milder than in books like 1984 or the handmaid's tale the effect quote makes it more able and hence more upsetting”
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“we're going to be it's going to be some george orwell [ __ ] 1984 [ __ ] we're going to be fully dependent on the government to keep cities open to get towns open”
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“George Orwells 1984 it it's it's happening right now somewhere and not”
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“I remember seeing hockey KN in Canada a broadcast of it and I was really struck not just by the high level of play on the ice but by the by the propaganda slogans everywhere around the rink that had nothing to do with selling anything it was selling ideas about Canada and I thought wow that's like 1984 stuff”
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“I feel like I'm mean George Orwell's 1984 sometimes when I'm seeing us requiring each other to use certain language and certain words”
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“1984 teaches us that it doesn't matter what the truth is what matters is what's on the public record”
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“j marie says 1984 teaches us that it doesn't matter what the truth is what matters is what's on the public record”
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“I support Tucker going to work for CNN and Don working for Fox might as well go full 1984 at this point corporate media is a joke”
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“- To the political complexity of two plus two equals five in George Orwell's "1984."”
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“The power to suffocate the human spirit in the totalitarian way of George Orwell's "1984" or the pleasure-fueled mass hysteria of "Brave New World"”
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“The power to suffocate the human spirit in a totalitarian way like in George Orwell's '1984', or the pleasure-fueled mass hysteria of 'Brave New World', where, as Huxley saw it, people come to love their oppression and adore the technologies that undermine their capacities to think.”
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“this seems double Plus ungood which is obviously a delightful reference to 1984.”
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“I mean if you want to get scary and talk about like 1984 ask and and creating a villain for everyone to Rally around”
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“and it's exactly the kinds of things you see in works of fiction like Gulliver's Travels you know or 1984 and the way that religion and politics kind of intersect and become bastardized”
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“they're out of the 1984 orwellian hellscape you can't even imagine the horrors that these people are describing”
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“if you falsify your words you know I think I agree with what you're saying but 1984 you know was a fairly good example of how Society can break that down”
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“that's a quote from 1984 it's one of my favorite books”
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“this is the perfect example of gaslighting double speak 1984 bull crap that they're just putting out there”
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“I mean first of all when you look at what Twitter was doing with things like the trust and Safety Committee it is as though they read Orwell's 1984 not as a warning but as a how-to book like maybe we should pick up you know the trust and Safety Committee”
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“wow 1984. here we are so good that is I it's it's the best you know the reason why it's the greatest is because you could have just said war is peace you know or whatever”
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“so I decided to be very brave and support this action by wearing my 1984 doses to slow the spread”
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“or they've you know i mean you just have to read 1984 to understand how how that's working”
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“they're telling you that we're fighting for freedom and then simultaneously it is 1984”
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“I read uh 1984 an animal farm Those are like the only two dystopian novels i've read so far”
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“it's not quite Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World or 1984”
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“Justin can go on about how horrific the justice system of the Supreme Court is while up here he plays a game halfway between Animal Farm in 1984.”
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“bro this is not 1984. when you take a country off the grid this is what happens it basically money becomes worthless hyperinflation”
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“which is very 1984 where they kind of reprint the old newspapers to say we've always been at war with south eurasia”
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“well that's 1984 dude that's like a scene right out of 1980 right absolutely yeah”
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“the shirt i'm wearing right now is also my representation of our society and it has the hunger games animal farm they live brave new world matrix fahrenheit 451 v for vendetta and of course 1984 representing where i think we are”
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“the shirt I'm wearing right now is also my representation of our society and it has the hunger games animal animal farm they live brave new world matrix fahrenheit 451 v for vendetta and of course 1984 representing where i think we are”
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“...it's like 1984 two plus two equals five is just keep being repeated you know that's a real thing though”
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“take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
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“people should read that hideous strength by c.s lewis a book even more prophetic than 1984 that deals with the subject of scientific authorism”
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“find me on amazon.com forward slash book 1984.”
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“Everyone talks about the situation as being 1984. Consider sometime the idea and influence of animal farm on the establishment”
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“and then when they censor the comments on 1984 would be glorious”
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“so it's so it's 1984 brave new world ray bradbury 451”
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“it just shows you that we're kind of living in a 1984 double speak world where words have double meanings”
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“1983 is a polio take orwell's 1984 on netflix Okay uh”
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“UK is very interested in dystopian novels Animal Farm uh and in 1984 84 is published a couple of years after I think after an there's reason to believe he read he read Anthem uh that and uh George read Animal Farm”
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“it's like all of these books that we used to read 1984 brave new world and ran it's all happening right now all at once like crashing into each other”
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“Have we gotten so far into 1984 that people can't see what's right in front of them”
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“It's literally out of 1984. Yeah the woke people on twitter are literally arguing but of course two plus two can equal five you simply need to redefine”
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“yeah i think we just defined george rell's 1984 like or cancel culture”
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“yeah I think we just defined George rell's 1984 like or cancel culture”
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“it was a response to imagine Nawaz who tweeted the quote from 1984 that the streets had been renamed”
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“stupid monkey says the kovid 19 virus lockdown never being cured equals the 1984 novel Wars Wow”
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“the kovat 19 virus lockdown never being cured equals the 1984 novel Wars”
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“I was educated books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult”
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“I was educated books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult”
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“so when you start seeing that you start thinking about ink sock in Orwell in 1984 and socialism and communism and fascism and the degradation of society and a lot of control coming down”
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“like every book we read in high school or college brave new world Lord of the Flies 1980 or Animal Farm like The Giver which we read in [ __ ] middle school”
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“um like that George Orwell book or whatever into the jungle or whatever it's called yeah”
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“when did he write in 1984 he didn't write it in ' 83 I know that he wrote in like the 30s didn't he”
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“exactly I mean it's 1984 but Pol peoplewise right it's backwards somehow it's backwards of 1984”
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“I got him all these pirated copies of like 1984 and like James Baldwin and catch22 and stuff to read”