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1984@75 – We Are Not Human

The second 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.

Part 2 – We Are Not Human

Winston’s reflection on how The Party has rendered its members inhuman, wiped the self from existence by eroding the value of your internal world and erased interpersonal loyalties in favour of serving the collective.

Transcript:

“The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world.

When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference.

Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history. And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question.

What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself.

The proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.”

For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.

The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.

And in thinking this he remembered, without apparent relevance, how a few weeks ago he had seen a severed hand lying on the pavement and had kicked it into the gutter as though it had been a cabbage-stalk.

‘The proles are human beings,’ he said aloud. ‘We are not human.’

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iskratov
iskratov
Jun 26, 2024 11:18 AM

and if you read this article carefully, you understand the extent to which human rights are under attack and their plan to cancel them. I underline this passage from the text:
”This reading recognises the social, economic and political consequences of human rights and thus their potential to upset the dominant social, economic and political order, rather than accepting human rights as universal norms of social life while ignoring the ideological frame in which they are exercised.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288614563_A_critical_engagement_with_the_social_and_political_consequences_of_human_rights_The_contribution_of_the_affective_turn_and_posthumanism

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 25, 2024 3:33 PM

The infamous BBC of 100 “greatest” Britons conducted in 2002 didn’t include Orwell (or Huxley). It did however include Aleister Crowley and others ranging from John Peel to Bob Geldof.

John Coleman in his book on the Tavistock Institute (available for free on archive.org) mentions that polls are one of Tavistock’s main weapons.

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 25, 2024 3:34 PM
Reply to  Edwige

insert “poll” between “BBC” and “of”.

Approximately
Approximately
Jun 25, 2024 12:48 PM

During the first 3 months of COVID. There was billboards everywhere with a new Tv series on them called ”Brave new world”.

fred
fred
Jun 25, 2024 1:33 AM

Reality is that humanity, which has evolved in chaotic warfare since inception, should be reclassified as a war virus. It’s a war mold that covers every inch of this war planet from the hunter-gather tribes that warred on small scales to the rise of civilizations and organized armies the whole world over. War has been, is now and will forever be, the whole planet over. You can’t see this now? The horror is that humanity is not responsible for the warfare in which we are trapped, and thus cannot stop it either. War is beyond humanities control. Nation states will be warring until weapons advancement finally develops life ending systems for the whole species. We are however, a shallow, stupid species that fails to understand war cannot be stopped, and keeps this horrific charade going by continuing to bring children here. Each new birth will be born into one of the 200-odd nation states, and programmed to war against all the other nation states.

Thom 9
Thom 9
Jun 24, 2024 9:04 PM

If the MRNA shots do indeed alter your genetic code sequences by inserting alterations then potentially many people are in the physical sense no longer human and therefore no longer gifted with their divinely given ‘human rights”. Not to mention the fact that their inserted code is owned and possibly controlled by whatever corporation created the alteration (see intellectual property rights).
This of course will be a hotly contested issue should it prove to be real.
But there is a legal basis already established regarding ownership of GMOs which completely favours Big Pharma and it’s many tentacles.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jun 24, 2024 9:17 PM
Reply to  Thom 9

Or the injected could now be threatened by an advanced weapons system:

The transnational ruling class has no choice but to keep pushing for global technocracy, and the rest of humanity has no choice but to fight back. Knowing since 1968 at least that this moment was coming, the former has developed the CIA’s information-liquidation model used in Indonesia and Vietnam in the 1960s into a global digital surveillance dragnet. The β€œCovid-19 vaccines,” shot into as many people as possible for no sound medical reason, could form part of an advanced weapons system, not least in the context of the emergent β€œIT/Bio/Nano era” envisaged by NASA in 2001, involving the use of nanotechnologies to connect human beings to an external network. If the brain is the twenty-first-century battlescape, and given that syringe-injectable neural nets were a reality by 2018, the evil potential of weaponised neurotechnology knows no bounds. History teaches that as the old social order breaks down, a moment of revolutionary potential arises. Lest unimaginable horrors be allowed to manifest, as in previous world wars, that moment must be seized.

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Thom 9
Thom 9
Jun 27, 2024 3:25 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

@Veri Tas
Cell towers emitting increased output and high frequency nano-meter microwaves could be used to trigger mass deaths via heart attacks and respiratory failures for those who received “the shot(s)” and now suffer from myocarditis and other related conditions. Also consider the sun’s solar forcing on our magnetosphere could by electrical induction induce the same type of effect on a grander scale.
All speculation of course and all very possible.

yetanotherusername
yetanotherusername
Jun 24, 2024 5:26 PM

If we take the word “human” as something that has values attached to it ( humanity) rather than being merely the the common English word for a strictly biological term such as homo (pseudo-)sapiens, then it is obvious that people are not born human- they must become human.
Any particular culture can then be assessed ( not judged) by how much it succeeds or fails to humanise the people that are born in it.
Failure tends to result in mass depression, psychopathy and general dysfunction. Sound familiar?

niko
niko
Jun 24, 2024 9:50 AM

This passage seems all the more relevant when replacing the Party (or State) with the Matrix (or Spectacle, Metaverse…). So: “The terrible thing that the Matrix had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power of the material world.”  

If you’re lost in a world of screens, whatever is personal to you is lost, claimed and colonized by progammed streams of consciousness without history beyond an eternal present reducing your awareness to a dream state and removing your agency in interpreting and judging the significance or value of your experience, merely passive and passing stimulus-response process, with whatever happens you vanish.  

Lost is the embodied presence of being in a material world where you make a difference with your own actions, and the hands which build this material world no longer matter, of no more worth than trash to be kicked into the gutter, because you have and are nothing but happy, as content as a cow can be.

It’s not just that you’re watched by Big Brother, but that you’re watching whatever the Ministry of Truth places before you in a digital (c)age far beyond crude shadows on cave walls, where you yourself have become a ghost in a machine, no longer just watching but fused with and suffused by electronic signals, brain and body in a vat.  

This recalls the invisible governance of which Bernays identified as the true ruling power of society, and looks forward to transhumanism like Yuval Harari’s vision of the gamification of existence and eventual elimination of humans as hackable animals. 

The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
-Steve Biko

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Edwige
Edwige
Jun 24, 2024 9:15 AM

From a book on cults by Lifton:
Cults wage “an all-out war on impurity” and “strive permanently and painfully for something which not only does not exist but is in fact alien to the human condition”.

Sound like any recent event you know?

(This is quoted in David A. Hughes’ interesting free e-book ‘Covid-19, psychological operations and the war for technocracy’. He cites OG so perhaps he might be got on here? There’s an interview with him on Willam Ramsay Investigates if anyone wants to listen to a potted version of hs ideas).

Kathleen
Kathleen
Jun 24, 2024 12:28 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Also an interview posted on Solari.com

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 24, 2024 1:00 PM
Reply to  Edwige

https://maryanngebauer.substack.com/p/dr-david-hughes Here it is. Its worth all minutes for even advanced truth seekers ;-D.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 24, 2024 7:52 AM

Sorry, off topic:
Cash is thrown a lifeline, for now:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-24/banks-offer-lifeline-to-cash-transporter-armaguard/104014250

Older Australians and those on low incomes are still using cash. No doubt it’s the same story in your neck of the woods.

When it’s gone, it will gone for good.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 24, 2024 8:04 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Here’s some examples of β€˜humans’:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/06/victory-for-the-disposables-the-sentencing-of-the-hindujas/

One of the UKs wealthiest families gets caught with whips in hand.

Baldmichael Theresolute
Baldmichael Theresolute
Jun 26, 2024 10:33 AM
Reply to  Johnny

‘Prakash Hinduja’ anagrams to ‘ah dj piranhas UK’ which seems suitable.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 26, 2024 11:45 AM

Very suitable.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 24, 2024 2:00 PM
Reply to  Johnny

It proves that the sheeple refuse cash and loves plastic cards and e-money.
The Politicians, the Parliament and we must respect our Democracy and the political will of the People, the majority………………..LOL.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 24, 2024 3:01 AM

The religions of science and authoritarianism;

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-relationship-between-science

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 24, 2024 2:07 AM

We are all definitely human.
Human BE-INGS, on the other hand, are less plentiful.

Beings of sound state and mind.
Beings with some self awareness.
Beings with character, rather than persona- alitities (masks).

les online
les online
Jun 23, 2024 11:48 PM

How Convenient !
Everything was made convenient for the proles…
Revolution is too inconvenient so dont expect the
proles to give up their conveniences by revolting…

mastershock
mastershock
Jun 24, 2024 6:54 PM
Reply to  les online

Why a Revolution ..?
we NOW have new prolesticians who speak are language.
We NOW have new partys who are different from the older party;s.

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Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 23, 2024 11:06 PM

If you are of the opinion that you come from an ape via evolution and progressed into the Neanderthal man and stone age man and today to digital man, then you are not a human.

If you believe in the phrases Alpha-male, Alpha-female, a human is like a computer, a human is an hackable animal, women’s liberation, men can have children, you must learn to sell yourself on a market, then you are not human.

Every single of us should/must know who we are. If you say you come from an ape then you come from an ape yes? Or no? Or what?

Captain Birdheart
Captain Birdheart
Jun 23, 2024 11:24 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 24, 2024 2:23 PM

Here is what my specie made by him above are put down here to do: https://youtu.be/Z0aAPxpvxmw

Here is what your “what specie” coming from the apes is doing: https://dryuc24b85zbr.cloudfront.net/tes/resources/7549001/image

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 24, 2024 2:27 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

The above link didnt work. Try again.comment image

Marfanoid
Marfanoid
Jun 23, 2024 11:28 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Strong Scandinavian beer.

Captain Birdheart
Captain Birdheart
Jun 23, 2024 10:25 PM

Are we not human
First double og post, squirrels
Maybe we were bred from pigs and apes
maybe a few hundred years ago
sad scotland fans
again
that is the target audience
ask fry

Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Jun 23, 2024 9:58 PM

The psychopath ruling elite said: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness,” and so they did.πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jun 23, 2024 10:33 PM
Reply to  Charlotte Ruse

And now they’re still dabbling away…

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Jun 23, 2024 11:11 PM
Reply to  Charlotte Ruse

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain“.

No the ruling elite didnt say that. I know you are joking, but but butt take care.

Eleventy Seventy
Eleventy Seventy
Jun 23, 2024 8:08 PM

Kind of ironic that the narrator, Stephen Fry, according to IMDb, has this to say about the BBC:
“The BBC enriches the country in ways we will only discover when it has gone and it is too late to build it back up again. We actually can afford the BBC, because we can’t afford not to.”

George Mc
George Mc
Jun 23, 2024 9:43 PM

If the BBC paid me what they’re paying him, I’d say that too!

thejackalsmark
thejackalsmark
Jun 23, 2024 11:15 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Remember the movie, Man On Fire?

The Head of the kidnappers was called… “The Voice”.

Fry has always had that feel to me.
While everyone wants their social media posts READ with HIS VOICE, I’m looking at all the BACKROOM UNDER the TABLE DEALS and AGENDAS at play that HE has HELPED FURTHER with that “voice”. Know what I mean? πŸ˜πŸ‘

ChairmanDrusha
ChairmanDrusha
Jun 24, 2024 3:29 AM

The narrator of what?

Eleventy Seventy
Eleventy Seventy
Jun 24, 2024 6:57 AM
Reply to  ChairmanDrusha

the video at the top of the page… whilst extolling the virtuous nature of the real-life Big Brother Corporation (BBC) πŸ™‚