📚 3 Books mentioned in "Timcast IRL - Youtube Is Giving us The Business, Wont Let Us Stream w/ James Okeefe" of Timcast IRL

...it's like 1984 two plus two equals five is just keep being repeated you know that's a real thing though

Tim references the book's famous phrase 'two plus two equals five' to describe the pervasive nature of fake news and propaganda.

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...if you study things like the economic hitman you see these efforts professions of an economic yeah confessions of an economic hit man great book definitely recommend you read it i read it in high school it changed my vision of the world

Luke mentions reading this book in high school and how it changed his worldview, recommending it in the context of discussing international disinformation efforts.

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I go back to orwell constantly because i feel like this book answers so many of these questions And what scares me about the orwell book is when winston the protagonist this is the winston smith is being tortured by o'brien the tyrant and and and every one of us has got fear is imagine your worst fear in the world... and the t tyrants have figured out that they have... winston... uh they've put a cage on his face and they put a rat the biggest fear of winston is a rat and he says two plus two equals five Please tell us that two plus two equals five When says no no two plus two equals four and the tyrant opens up the door and the rats coming towards his face and finally winston says okay two plus two is whatever you want it to be two plus two is whatever you want just don't put the rat in my face None of us are that strong

James O'Keefe refers to 'the orwell book' (1984) and recounts the torture scene involving Winston, O'Brien, and the rat, using it as a metaphor for coercion and the limits of human resistance to forced denial of truth.

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