Have Authoritarians Used ‘1984’ as a Handbook?

Via Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • “Science” has been used to strip us of medical rights and personal freedoms for the last two years. Now, “science” is touted as the justification for not eating real beef and getting used to insects and lab-grown protein alternatives instead. “Science” is also being weaponized to cajole us into accepting rolling blackouts and energy deprivation
  • Mirroring George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” the Biden administration has been telling us the economy is good, the GDP is strong and inflation is transitory, even though data clearly tell a different story
  • Biden has even insisted that borrowing (read: printing) more money will reduce prices while not affecting the value of the dollar. It’s basic economics that increasing money supply results in inflation, but even inflation is being redefined at whim
  • At the end of April 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security even created an actual “ministry of truth,” the Disinformation Governance Board, in blatant violation of the First Amendment. Government has basically “memory-holed” the Constitution and pretends it doesn’t exist, hoping you’ll pretend along with them
  • Is government gaslighting the public? Gaslighting is a form of emotional manipulation and abuse where the abuser creates a false narrative and makes the victim question their sanity. Rewriting history is a key hallmark, as is refuting what is obvious fact

“Is it just me, or does it feel like someone out there is using Orwell’s work, not as a warning, but as an owner’s manual?” GBNews host Neil Oliver asked in a May 7, 2022 monologue. He summarized a scene from George Orwell’s book, “Animal Farm,” in which the farm animals discover that the pigs are taking all the apples and milk for themselves.

When their selfish behavior is revealed, the pigs defend it saying it has been scientifically proven that pigs alone require milk and apples for good health. There’s nothing self-serving about their taking all the apples and milk for themselves. “Many of us don’t even like apples.”

Who’s Actually Following the Science?

This term, “science” has been repeatedly thrown in our faces and shoved down our throats over the past two years, while unfairly and irrationally separating the superiors from the plebs. “Science” has been used to strip us of medical rights and personal freedoms.

Now, “science” is touted as the justification for not eating real beef and getting used to insects, grubs and lab-grown protein alternatives instead. “Science” is also being weaponized to cajole us into accepting rolling blackouts and energy deprivation.

“Energy giant E.On recently sent pairs of polyester socks to customers with the message, ‘Energy down. CO2 down.’ Those literally in control of the power are telling people to wear more clothes to fend off the cold rather than have heating in their homes,” Oliver said.

‘1984’ — A Manual for Totalitarianism

In Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” we find both a Ministry of Plenty and a Ministry of Truth. Both names are the opposite of their true function. The Ministry of Plenty’s job is to maintain a consistent level of poverty while publishing fabricated production numbers for items that were never actually made, and the task of the Ministry of Truth is to memory-hole inconvenient facts and rewrite history daily to fit the political narrative.

In the U.S., the Biden administration has been telling us the economy is good, the GDP is strong1 and inflation is transitory,2 even though data clearly tell a different story. The first quarter of 2022 actually had a negative growth rate,3 consumer debt soared $52 billion in March,4 and inflation over the past year has been the fastest in four decades,5 with no end in sight.

Biden has even insisted that borrowing (read: printing) more money will reduce prices while not affecting the value of the dollar. To quote The Hill contributor Chris Talgo,6 “That is called, to borrow a Biden-ism, malarkey,” because “when the government prints or borrows trillions of dollars, the value of the dollar declines, and prices rise. That is called inflation.” It’s basic economics, but even that is being redefined at whim.

As if that weren’t Orwellian enough, at the end of April 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security created an actual “ministry of truth,” the Disinformation Governance Board, in blatant violation of the First Amendment (free speech).

The DHS is basically pretending as though the Constitution doesn’t exist anymore, yet no one can recall it being formally abolished. It should still be there — the supreme law of the land. But government is acting as though it’s been memory-holed, and no doubt hope you’ll just go along with it. It’s nothing short of insane-making, and perhaps that’s the intention.

Government Gaslighting

It’s very reminiscent of gaslighting,7 a form of emotional manipulation and abuse where the abuser creates a false narrative and step by step makes the victim question their sanity. Rewriting history is a key hallmark, as is refuting what is obvious fact. Silly examples might be commenting on your “black shirt” when the shirt you’re wearing is white, or insist you arrived an hour late when clearly, you were right on time, judging by every clock in the house.

While the victim may wonder if they’re losing their mind, it’s actually the people who do the gaslighting who typically have a mental health disorder. They tend to be pathological liars with strong narcissistic tendencies.

To protect yourself, psychologists recommend you get some distance from the perpetrator, save all evidence (so you can confirm the facts when you get unsure), and set firm boundaries for what you will tolerate and what you won’t. Lastly, you need to sever the relationship — something to keep in mind.

In his monologue, Oliver laments the poor turnout in the local elections, noting that most people are simply worn out by the abuse. Exhausted by the lies. Fatigued beyond care by the hypocrisy. Let this be a lesson to Americans — do not fall into apathy.

The answer is to replace the abusive leadership by voting in record-setting numbers. Get more involved, not less. You could volunteer as a poll worker, for example. It’s true, we’re being hit with phenomenally powerful psychological warfare, but remaining focused on the truth and refusing to get side tracked is your best defense.

Enemies of Freedom

Aldous Huxley was a contemporary and mentor of Orwell. In the 1958 interview above, Huxley discussed a series of essays he’d written called “Enemies of Freedom.” The series outlines “impersonal forces” that are “pushing in the direction of progressively less freedom,” and “technological devices” that can be used to accelerate the process by imposing ever greater control of the population.

Huxley pointed out that as technology becomes more complex, it becomes increasingly necessary to form more elaborate hierarchal organizations to manage it all. Technology also allows for more effective propaganda machines that can be managed through those same control hierarchies.

Huxley cited the success of Hitler, noting that aside from Hitler’s effective use of terror and brute force, “he also used a very efficient form of propaganda. He had the radio, which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people.”

With the advent of television, Huxley foresaw how an authoritarian leadership could become a source of “a one-pointed drumming” of a single idea, effectively brainwashing the public. Beyond that, he predicted the technological capability to “bypass the rational side of man” and manipulate behavior by influencing people on a subconscious level. This is precisely what we’re faced with today.

Google and Facebook have both been collecting data on you for nearly two decades. They have created massive server farms that are capable of analyzing this data with deep learning and artificial intelligence software to mine information and generate incredibly precise details on just what type of propaganda and narrative is required to surreptitiously manipulate your beliefs and behavior.

Centralization Is the Engine of Huxley’s Dystopia

Huxley argued that to create the dystopian future presented in his books, you would have to centralize wealth, power and control, which is precisely what the technocratic and transhumanist-inspired globalist cabal have been doing. Their control grid is nearly complete.

One of the final nails in our collective coffin will be the rollout of a global digital identity system, as this will give them more or less total control over every human being on the planet. The World Health Organization is working on one. The European Union just announced the rollout of digital ID, and the U.K. government is drawing up legislation to make digital ID services more secure.8

While sold as the ultimate in speed and convenience, digital ID “poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered.” The Expose warns:9

“Ultimately, social credit systems, such as those that are currently being developed in China, will be based on digital ID, thereby enabling or disabling our full and free participation in society.

By developing facial recognition and AI and machine learning technologies in parallel with systems for a Digital ID, we are not simply establishing an identity to access basic social services. Digital IDs will become necessary to function in a connected digital world …

Digital ID systems, as they are being developed today, are ripe for exploitation and abuse, to the detriment of our freedoms and democracies. You may be thinking that this would never happen in the West and it is only unique to China. But they already enforced it here without you realizing it, through COVID-19 Vaccine Passports.

Mandatory COVID passports have almost nothing to do with public health and everything to do with social control. Why? Because the COVID-19 injections do not prevent infection or transmission … Vaccine Passports make absolutely zero sense from a Public Health perspective. But they make perfect sense for enforcing a Digital ID and Social Credit system …

You’ll have to use your Digital ID to buy certain things, be granted access to places, and most probably to even access the mainstream internet. But, if you haven’t done what the Government has decided makes you a ‘good citizen,’ and kept up a good social credit score, you won’t be able to do any of those things.

Once Digital IDs have been normalized, they will be one of the greatest tools that Governments have ever had in their arsenal to both control and manipulate the public and remain in power, thanks to the huge amount of personal data they will generate.”

Decentralization Protects Freedom

If centralization is the prerequisite for Huxley’s dystopia, then decentralization is the way to protect against it. Today, the wisdom of this is on full display. I believe decentralization of the internet will be required to prevent censorship and manipulation in the future.

This means that websites and platforms are not stored in one central place that can easily be controlled and manipulated but, rather, widely distributed to thousands, if not millions, of computers all over the world. Because there is no central storage it can’t be removed.

Decentralized platforms allow the majority of power to reside with the individual. Technologies that can be easily misused to control the public narrative must also remain largely decentralized, so that no one person or agency ends up with too much power to manipulate and influence the public. Our modern-day social media monopolies are a perfect example of what Huxley warned us about.

The same goes for our food system and our economic institutions too. Today, we can see how the role of the central bank (in the U.S. known as the Federal Reserve) — a privately-owned entity with the power to break entire countries apart for profit — is forcing us toward a new global economic system that will impoverish and quite literally enslave everyone, with the exception of the cabal members themselves.

Like the ruling pigs in “Animal Farm,” they may insist they’re “building back better” and working toward a “fairer and more equitable” society, but if they get their way, they will be the only ones dining on apples and milk in the farmhouse, while the rest of us own nothing and subsist on rationed grubs.

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Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
May 28, 2022 7:47 am

In Germany, I started to see comments yesterday that the card readers at the grocery stores were not working and you could only pay cash. Today, there was an article by the mainstream media “Where can I still pay with card?” I wonder if this involves many more stores now other than grocery ones.

I think they are war gaming that type of scenario to see what happens and how people react. If there will be a bank run on cash, they can flip the switch and make it all work again.

I would not be surprised if it happened here in the next few weeks, too.

Boogieman
Boogieman
May 28, 2022 8:01 am

None of these authors had a crystal ball or able to see the future. They observed and imagined the unknown limits of the true hearts of men, the spirit to do a wicked thing and it’s natural conclusions. It has been with us, you and me, from time in memorial. The spirit to do an evil thing wrights it’s own story and draws it’s own conclusions in the depraved, unimaginable, economy of men. History as our guide, we become more depraved in our imaginations and our best laid plans as we hurdle through the portal of man made time to our final end.

Do something nice for somebody today, even if it’s just a smile. It messes up the big plan.

“I watched with glee while your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys?”
Well, after all, it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay.

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game”

I was listening to the Rolling Stones this morning, if you couldn’t tell.

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  Boogieman
May 28, 2022 8:56 am

No one could’ve known….reeeeeee

Philip II: (1527-1598)
William Thomas Walsh
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1889B28539B7506D637C3D5605BFD2A0

It did not occur to the kings that if the money-lenders ever got
power enough, if they ever got from under the public-spirited
repression of the Church, they would destroy their own masters.
Kings were not generally as far-sighted as money-changers, and
much less so than priests. This is not to deny that clerics sometimes
condoned usury and profited by it, or that some kings repressed it.
Human affairs are never so simple as that. But there was a line of
cleavage: the Church on one side hostile to usury, the kings
compelled to make use of it on the other.

As the moral influence of the Church was weakened in the
political and economic spheres, in consequence of a series of
calamities for which she was not to blame—the Black Death, the
papal exile at Avignon, the Great Schism, the return of paganism
with the Renaissance—usury began to accumulate wealth and to
organize its influence. With canny insight it threw its influence, by
and large, against the power of Church and State, supporting now
one, now the other, until, by a see-saw process, it succeeded in
weakening both.

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  flash
May 28, 2022 9:23 am

Only the fag-faced , rotten toothed English didn’t kick them out. They unleashed them on the world , under the lie of Church Reformation. We can thank the English for global debt slavery. They made it happen.

Is it unlikely that some of these “foreigners” were Jews? The
inter-mixture was incalculable, but it was there. The Cromwell family
had Jewish characteristics and connections. Oliver Cromwell’s
grandmother was a daughter of Horatio Pallavicino, one of the Italian
money-lenders and advisers of Elizabeth and a close friend of
Benedict Spinola, another Italian known to have been a Jew. Both
these “Italians” became conspicuous for their violent Church of
England views at a time when such views were profitable.

All in all, there is probably some truth in the claim of Joseph Cohen Sefardi that enough Jews remained in England after the expulsion to prepare the way for the Protestant revolt of the sixteenth
century.

Philip II: (1527-1598)
William Thomas Walsh
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1889B28539B7506D637C3D5605BFD2A0

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  flash
May 28, 2022 9:24 am

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  Boogieman
May 28, 2022 1:25 pm

One man foresaw homosexual “marriage” coming, in early 1970s already. That was pretty close to having a crystal ball, in my view.

Boogieman
Boogieman
  m
May 28, 2022 3:05 pm

Shit, I was warning against it in the late 70’s. It was an obvious snow ball rolling down a snow covered hill. That’s when a lot of big stars started coming out of the closet. Aids hit in the early 80’s, it was an on coming train wreck in slow motion.
You didn’t need to be a prognosticator to see that shit coming.

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  Boogieman
May 28, 2022 5:32 pm

That it [homosexual “marriage”] would make it not just into civil law, but also into church?

Ookay, then let us know your current prognostications please.

Boogieman
Boogieman
  m
May 28, 2022 6:45 pm

Whatever, If you want me to give you a reading it will cost ya.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
May 28, 2022 8:46 am

Man’s fucked up nature hasn’t changed. These guys were just well in touch with it and took it to its logical conclusion in their novels that were fictional at the time. The Biden administration is simply taken fucked up human nature and making it reality in our time.

flash
flash
May 28, 2022 8:50 am

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  flash
May 28, 2022 9:30 am

The ends justify the means. Moloch approves this message.

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flash
flash
May 28, 2022 9:13 am

Muh representative government.
Because high IQs, bruh.

1) Doug Emhoff, Jewish Husband of Kamala Devil Harris
2) Janet Yellin, Jewish Secretary Treasury
3) Anthony Blinken, Jewish Secretary of State
4) Robert Klain, Jewish Chief of Staff
5) David Cohen, Jewish Deputy Director CIA
6) Merrick Garland, Jewish Attorney General
7) Alejandro Mayorkas, Jewish Secretary Homeland Security
8) Avril Haines, Jewish Director National Intelligence
9) Wendy Sherman, Jewish Deputy Secretary of State
10) Victoria Nuland, Jewish Secretary State Political Affairs
11) Eric Lander, Jewish Office of Science Technology
12) Jeffry Zeints, Jewish Covid Czar
13) Rachel Levine, Jewish Assistant Health Secretary
14) and 15) Cass Sunstein, Jewish Senior Counselor at the Departmentof Homeland Security, and his wife, Samantha Power, Head of USAID
16) Dana Stroul, Jewish Pentagon Senior Policy Official on the Middle East
17) Rochelle P. Walensky, Jewish CDC Director
18) Anne Neuberger, Jewish Director of Cybersecurity at NSA
19) Chanan Weissman, Jewish Director of Technology at National Security Council
20) Avril Haines, Jewish Director of National Intelligence
21) Polly Trottenberg, Jewish Deputy Secretary of Transportation
22) Jessica Rosenworce,l Jewish Acting Chairwoman FCC
23) Jennifer Klein, Jewish Co-Chair of the Gender Policy Council
24) Jared Bernstein, Jewish Member of Council of Economic Advisers
25) Jeff Zients, Jewish COVID Czar
26) David Kessler, Jewish Chief Science Officer of COVID Response
27) Stephanie Pollack, Jewish Deputy Administrator Federal Highway Administration
28) Gary Gensler, Jewish Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Ken31
Ken31
  flash
May 28, 2022 11:03 am

The root of all evil is treating people as things and the Jew see no other but himself as human. Probably because they invert everything in their satanic struggle against God.

kfg
kfg
May 28, 2022 9:15 am

No. 1984 was written to expose the handbook to the public.

It is not a trivial distinction. There is a handbook. The first edition was written by Marx, Engels & Lenin, decades before 1984 was written. Orwell became fully aware of it while participating in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the socialists.

A second edition, revised and updated, is the product of the Frankfurt School.

The third edition is the product of “Third Wave Feminism.”

A field manual for practical revolutionary operations is being written as I write this.

I get the joke, but it’s a dangerously hollow one, inverting cause and effect.

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  kfg
May 28, 2022 9:51 am

Thanks smart boy .

kfg
kfg
  flash
May 28, 2022 10:47 am

You’re welcome.

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  kfg
May 28, 2022 1:27 pm

Not saying that the Frankfurt School is blameless, but they played no key role, to the best of my understanding.

kfg
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  m
May 28, 2022 1:56 pm

The Frankfurt School added Critical Theory to the foundational work, resulting in what we now call Neo-Marxism.

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  kfg
May 28, 2022 5:37 pm

So you’re saying by implication that Critical Theory is the linchpin that made Marxism (nothing “Neo” about it!) so successful in the “West” today?
(Or thinking in reverse, without Critical Theory the “march through the institutions” would not have succeeded?)

kfg
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  m
May 28, 2022 8:14 pm

Yes. Critical Theory has been the chief weapon of the Glorious Revolution since the 70s. It’s why you hear an awful lot about liberating drag queens and very little about liberating farm and factory workers these days.

Can’t find a Wobbly on the floor to save your life. All the Marxists are wearing white collars in the dean’s office or HR department.

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  kfg
May 29, 2022 5:47 am

Nothing you write gives me a hook to any different basic theory.

The same guy with the crystal ball I wrote of above, identified the point of going down the wrong path to be mid 1950s, and the ones most responsible the Surrealists (!) and Wilhelm Reich. He also looked closely at the Frankfurt School and concluded they were not instrumental, and also withdrew most of their craziest thesis a decade later. (IIRC; All that to the best of my understanding, and I’ve decided against wasting time to learn the ins and outs of the Frankfurt School so to then refute it myself.)

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 28, 2022 9:24 am

When the Company sanctioned alt media is promoting decentralization while their brothers in the MSM are promoting the opposite, it could be a ruse to sell us a decentralized(In appearance only) version that they will still have total control over.
I’ve never trusted Mercola or Malone.

Fleabaggs.

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flash
May 28, 2022 9:39 am

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Stucky
Stucky
May 28, 2022 10:26 am

“Mirroring George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” the Biden administration has been telling us the economy is good, the GDP is strong and inflation is transitory, even though data clearly tell a different story.”

It’s worse than 1984! We have entered either one, or both, of these worlds.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
May 28, 2022 10:34 am

The answer is to replace the abusive leadership by voting

Stopped reading here.

Voting? LOL! Sure. Have another pull on the hopium pipe.

BTW, the writing style of repeating everything just written is annoying as hell. Paid by the word maybe?

Ken31
Ken31
May 28, 2022 10:59 am

The only novel concept in 1984 was the use of technology to conduct age old dirty tricks.

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  Ken31
May 28, 2022 1:31 pm

Off target.
The most horrifying parts of 1984 is not the technology-use for suppression, but the astute observation that the most total defeat of a society is the capture and inversion of their words.

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 28, 2022 11:27 am

Its been an issue that has taken me years to understand,when you talk”Constitution “,you talk WAY PAST most people…they understand what they “think” is current law/statute and argue from there……like two ships in the night……

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 28, 2022 12:06 pm

And with all these “convience ” apps out there,people will sleepwalk right on into it…..
Digital slavery that is……..

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