1984@75 – The Lottery
The first of our short videos marking the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984 & – we hope – a timely reminder it is much more than the famous memes of Room 101, Big Brother, Doublethink or Newspeak.
Firstly – The Lottery.
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.
It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.
Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.
There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets.
Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary.
Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.
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Looks like harmless clickbait:
https://dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/17/police-who-rammed-runaway-cow-did-the-right-thing-says-farmer
“Broom suggested one solution would be a register of all farmers and animal owners in order to be able to contact people in such a situation.”
Oh…
And for extra fun, the animal happened to be named Beau Lucy to get the obligatory Lucifer reference in there.
The Irish lottery is the most corrupted https://www.thejournal.ie/national-lottery-ireland-6223471-Nov2023/
I once suggested to friends that the winners of the Powerball’s huge prizes were fiction and the money was simply stolen, and that is why the government, who were the operators, wanted to sell the show to their mates for $15.
My friends scoffed at this conspiracy theory. The same friends who believe the elections could never be rigged and the government always serves the best interests of the citizenry first and foremost.
Winning the lottery as a retirement strategy…well good luck with that.
I stopped throwing any money into the lottery’s blackhole a few years back.
Instead I’m saving up my shekels for a good durable pair of boots.
I come from a poor family and have scratched cards and bought lottery tickets all my life.
I never won anything but I still believe my number will be out some day, because the chances gets higher and higher the more years I try. Simple math says that! 😌
I have lovely bridge for sale.
Special price for Mr. Erik.
Didn’t you sell that last week?
Council work, underlying god is lottery, amid general gambling we have inner hierarchy of groups invested, who leads etc. You can you find the Tavistock man, in every council hole.
man is, of course, increasingly woman, of accepted course you are
Off subject but indicating the pre-1984 setup prepping being cooked up around us. Here a neo-false binary being twisted into a pretzel of confusion unless one does not buy into the rich boys evil sorcery caste upon us from every angle. Here we have the uber rich transhumanist portraying a false binary of him being a population “expansionist” (neo-pro-lifer?) vs genocidal “environmentalists” who for some irreconcilable reasoning want to exterminate themselves, their families and all Humanity. What drives such a supposedly rich and smart human to throw up such blithering stupidity? He has no respect for Humanity and is avidly executing the transhumanist extinction agenda in a dancing clown suit, thinking no one will notice what he, and the rest of the elite say, is total sucker bullshit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/elon-musk-slams-extinctionist-movement-who-see-humans-plague
The California lottery back in the 90’s started out with wide distribution of winnings. One number got your money back, two numbers like $12, three $60. I and many others won enough to make it fun. Then they expanded the numbers and added wild card numbers. Now with $100m’s prize monies to just a few winners, any fun or chance is gone. Instead of $500M to one person, how about if 1000 people were to receive half a million each and change 1000 lives? Nope. Any actual benefit to society would not be the dystopia they want to caste upon us like pouring salt upon slugs.
I was addicted to the scratch cards for a while and when new scratch cards came out the winning was loads. that was the hook. after a few days of being out the supposedly 5.1 ratio of wins was nonsense.
Most I ever won was 100$.
Lucky man. https://youtu.be/9ZUyB5dRwg0
The newspaper story’s about ‘cleaners’ or ‘shelf stacker’ winning $8 million and going back to work.
Pure propaganda. it is up there with Lotto work syndicates missing out on the big one due to forgetting to do the lottery that week as whoever was ill or stole the money.
Aussies seem to be lottery and gambling addicts.
Is it the same everywhere?
Long queues (sadly lots of older Folks) at the Lotto shops when there’s a big one ($50+million) in the offing, and when the big racing carnivals are happening.
Meanwhile, betting ads and apps are as ubiquitous as the vaccinated.
As for the pestilence of poker machines, don’t get me started!
Yep, we’ve been had. Big time.
At least 1 prize announced every other year or so for lotteries organised by US states is in the billions of dollars – or maybe hundreds of billions. I have no idea if any if it is real.
I would consider myself working class, and have had many jobs with the same. It was very common for those buying tickets to really hope they would win, and talk about what they would do if they won.
Ultimately it is a win for the powers that be. Us pinning our hopes on money for salvation.
In the wise words of the late King Solomon, what a miserable business!
Up there with billionaires needing legal fee;’s and having the voter donate.
In my working life I used to visit wealthy people at their homes. That was my job.
There are two very different types:
Old money. You can spot a mile off. The house will be nice but understated and probably need some work. Shops at either Waitrose or Lidl. 20 year old Toyota on the drive. Normally affable but prone to ramble on. Will be involved in a cat charity.
New money: House will be uncomfortably immaculate, ditto lady of the house. Shops at Sainsburys. Brand new matching his and hers sports cars with private number plates.
Very likely to be obnoxious gits. Will moan about golf club fees.
Then there are lottery winners.
I never met one and, to the best of my knowledge, neither did any of my colleagues- and we saw a lot of people between us.
‘Noblesse oblige.’ I worked for a while for a Hollywood gynaecologist with a then (1977) 4 million dollar beach house on the ocean front in Malibu Colony. The entire basement was a garage, In it (among other things) were 4 Porsches 1 for each child. When I went to work for him he put the keys to a new Ford Mustang in my hand along with a charge card. He said ‘Give them back when you’re finished.’
What first attracted him to his profession ?
Well, he had certainly got the money. I could see Cher’s house from the roof. It was much smaller.
Mind you from another job later we could see Bob Dylan’ $27 million thing with the golden domes across the water. Much bigger. But I guess he could afford it.
The knowledge that women are always the stupid doctor groupies who go for constant check-ups because god/nature made them so defective. They will have their breasts amputated just in case, and have their internal repro organs removed because of the say-so of white coats. They seem to be incapable of taking charge of their own bodies. Look at a typical doctor’s waiting room – full of women.
Pussy. Isnt that obvious?
I take it you’ve still got them ?
Nah, I gave them back. At that time I had the loan of a biggish Dodge van with twin Holley carbs slightly Mickey-Moused. Which gave it fantastic acceleration. PCH in the rush hour, I could get it into small gaps from a standing start at the bottom of Topanga Canyon. As long as I got the timing right.
I’m a truck person. I once drag raced Donovan in a BMW on PCH but he won.
My present ride is an Iveco Turbo Daily 111 35S12 long wheelbase. 7.15 meters.
I have only Toddington services to compare with.
Not a mis-spent youth then?
I too could relate a similar tale about a gynaecologist I once knew but the big difference was that he told me he was working only part time just to keep his hand in.
‘Tut-tut.’ (King Tut?)
Accepting their own narrative for a moment, the odds on winning the UK National Lottery used to be roughly the same as picking the correct inch on the M25.
It’s their second favourite way of extorting money out of people without them realising it after inflation. It was that lovely John Major who introduced it in the UK, the one who last showed how to throw an election (I wonder what really happened, for example, in the Stephen Milligan business? Real event denied usual cover-up? Bumped off? Fake event and he’s living somewhere under a new identity? Any of these now seems more likely than the narrative we were given).
The one i heard is that if you flush a pound down the toilet, your chance of seeing it again was better than your chance of winning the lottery.
Very plausible George.
There’s an interesting plot point in The Peripheral by William Gibson. To help fund some folks in the present day, being unable to transfer loot from the future, the latter check the Lottery results and then pass on the winning numbers. Hey presto: sufficient money to found a financial dynasty and a small revolutionary army.
It’s definitely odd now, when the lotto began everyone used to get a tenner for having 3 numbers quite regularly. Now I never see that happening… suspicious.
The lottery is yet another tax on the poor.
I do believe people actually win big sums but look at most of the big winners they usually end up miserable and broke. The ones that fair better usually give big chunks of it away and don’t change their lives drastically. It’s a cliche but money really doesn’t make you happy, well enough to pay your bills and not struggle but anymore is usually a burden. I know a few wealthy people who are always worrying about money and how to protect it instead of enjoying their lives.
My father once said to me “don’t make your dream into reality or it could turn into your worse nightmare.”
Is that the propaganda off keeping people in poverty mentality ?
spent 10 million and now happy as there broke and working for 10$ an hour.
having money was the worse thing for them and having no money is a good thing….
It seems like pure bullshit to keep the slave in low energy and thinking there happy..
There are truth in it. You wont get happy only because you get or have money.
Its a big responsibility and many false friends will occupy you, and run away the day you tell them your money is gone.
As such you always see people around you with suspicion. Poor people dont have to worry so much about their surrounding.
They are free after 8 hours work. Just saying everything has a price. But maybe you should try it first before you realize it.
There are some stories of big winners in multiple countries facing nightmares due to threats, attitude of relatives and friends, and bankrupting themselves.
Lotteries are not fixed its ‘science’ & coincidences https://gizmodo.com/why-the-exact-same-lottery-numbers-came-up-twice-in-one-1515565938
ole Epstein has some luck tho:
https://thelostogle.com/2019/08/14/no-jeffrey-epstein-did-not-win-25-million-from-an-oklahoma-lottery-ticket-or-did-he
Whenever I used to say very nasty things about EU or US politicians, I would get a phone call claiming I had won millions on the Euro lottery. As I’ve never ever bought a ticket, I found that somewhat fanciful.
But three times is usually enemy action….so maybe there are some MI5 drones trying to empty subversives’ bank accounts using phishing techniques?!
Latest Selective Service Act requires registration of young women, too. I am unable to verbalize why I find this shocking. Perhaps you can.
They can use everybody as cannonfodder. Remember in SA they used children soldiers, even more chocking.
Have you found out what the prize is for saying no? Muhammed Ali got 5 years for saying no to Vietnam?? But his lawyer saved him.
“..the Court ruled 8-0 that Ali met the three standards for conscientious objector status: that he opposed war in any form, that his beliefs were based on religious teaching and that his objection was sincere.”
I used to deliver rollover posters to shops before the draw on Saturday for them to put up Sunday morning.How did Camelot know ?
I remember saying about ten years ago the lottery would get to over a billion. I was shortsighted. It’s going to take way more than that. Until everything breaks I guess.
they play as they live, for the recurrent thrill of losing.
I guess the Dutch private one family show called “Nationale Postcode Lotterij” gave this section of ‘1984’ a twist as they support woke and “green” projects worldwide with millions of euros. Win-win-win-lose.
Are the winners who go public about their big win, crisis actors? Nothing would surprise me. Is the lottery not just another gaslighting exercise on the proles, to raise and then dash their hopes and then washing the dosh into a magnificent new opera house for the soy latte well spoken classes.
Story is pure propaganda
lotto winner who blew 10 million
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/king-chavs-who-blew-10m-27895060
You might be on to something https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/what-if/
Lotteries and gambling.
What a racket.
Run by the rich to fleece the Sheeple.
Giving them false hope, fantasies and frustration
Here’s a safe bet;
They will suck you dry, IF YOU LET THEM.
The Lottery a lumpenproletariat exercise feeding billions into a corrupt political bureaucracy.🤑
I’ve cut back my Lotto spend:
thinking: ‘if i win i’ll be too old to enjoy spending it !’
So i now have more money for foods
which will help me live longer, play Lotto longer,
drag out The Misery of Dashed Hopes…
Born a Prole, Die a Prole, may be my Fate…
I didn’t clock that it was the 75th anniversary but, co-incidentaly, I am re-reading the book.
I read it at intervals to see how it compares with the present day. A bit like going to stay with your parents once you’ve left home.
Anyway, this time it seems a little different. Previously, I found it gloomy and dystopian.
Now, I have to say, compared to the real 2024 it all sounds much more cosy.
You get beer, gin, cigarettes, wide screen TV and chicks for free.
What’s not to like ?
And the chocolate rations just been increased !
You are on to something cat. Good luck.
U.K, E.U and now USA……..
On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a significant defense bill that includes a provision for the automatic registration of young men between the ages of 18 to 26 for the Selective Service.
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2024/06/16/house-passes-bill-to-automatically-register-for-draft-but-can-it-clear-the-senate/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-defense-bill-automatically-registering-men-draft
Prepping for the big one?
Send the $uiturd$ to fight.
They’ve already got the credentials.
Cold, hard, psychopaths, devoid of empathy
Make that 55 to 85 and see the end of war.
The elderly can do it. Win the wars. They got brain.
Sweden has just permitted US soldiers on their own military bases. One more country occupied. See? It fits logically together.
I can’t access the video. I get this:
Scratch that. Just got it. “The winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons”? Surely not!
It’s a terrible thought, isn’t it? That all the big winners were bad actors and they are laughing their heads off at us. Could they be that evil?
Corruption and grift is just a habit a bit like smoking, snorting cocaine or injecting heroin.
To begin with it’s a kick, then it becomes an addiction. And, when you try to give up, some nasty psychopath tells you that if you do give up, they’ll send in the heavy mob to sort you out…..
The pusher team. https://youtu.be/YlT5iLICBiM
“Could they be that evil?”
World wars… JFK… 9/11… convid… transgenderism… but not fake lottery winners!
Perhaps that’s why they pushed fake philosophers to try to convince people there’s no such thing as evil?