This is not a blog about the actual year of ninteen eighty four, it's about the book/movie called 1984. It's a vision of a man from 1949 of the future. in ninteen eighty four he sees that the world will be under the control of a lovable dictator called Big Brother. Everyone is under the control of the government in an insanly powerful facist dictatorship.
The book has two interesting concepts: The concept of thinkcrime and the concept of doublethink, as well as the modification of the english language to newspeak. They control speech because they hold to the philosphy that if you cannot speak it, then you cannot think it. If you do think it it, you're commiting thinkcrime, and must be fixed. If you hold in two contridicting thoughts at once, seeing that black is white and white is black and finding both are true, and never thinking you knew any different.
I watched the film on youtube, of which two parts I had to see in Italian, because they contained nudity and the thinkcrime of nudity cannot be allowed on the Youtube. Alot of New World Order conspiricies seem to take ideas from this story, and it could be the origins of most of this thought. however if it were really a conpsiracy, wouldn't the conspiritors be controling our thought and access to such material? Is the internet and youtube so free that we are completly free to do anything on it? Some would say yes you can download music illegally, you can steal almost anything digitally, and others would say no, it's all controlled by the system's super computer.
The other creepy thing is that technology is slowly getting closer and closer to that of 1984, where everyone can be monitored, such as with cellphones being tracked by law enforcment, cameras on stoplights and places of buisness, slowly they are installing a system that is not radically different from this film, and it's rather freaky.
The wars in the film are not much unlike our modern wars which are constantly perpetuated for the right wing think-tank, and the empire building of post-modern America. We cannot seem to keep out of international affairs and always seem to be in a war whenever republicans get in office. I think that watching this film and reading this book are very good ideas for modern americans, because some people honestly need a wakeup call.
And ofcourse there is the always looming fear of 2012 that has been slowly growing fear in the common man.
Another interesting dude, my friend Tamera turned me on to, is this Terrence Mckenna guy, who has many ideas relating to this, including that culture is your operating system
Intersting stuff.. Check it out.
Stu I was reading through the side of this blog and I am not familiar with the term “axemen” but I think you left off three of the best guitar players I have ever heard..
ReplyDelete1.) Tom Morello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qogtDaTwERU
2.)Joe Walsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1-dglZs0-8&feature=related
3.)John Butler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0
Tom Morello is more of a trick guitarist, lots of noise guitar, cool noises, but skilled...I dunno, many would say yes but i find his style rather subjective to everyone. He like buckethead jacks off a little to heavily on the killswitch. It sounds like a computer is playing rather than a man.
ReplyDeleteNever been into the Eagles majorly, but I will admit that solo is pretty delicious on Hotel California. I wouldn't toss him out completly, but i'm pretty unfamiliar with their music.
As for John Butler, i've only heard that one song before and couldn't remember his name. Very cool acoustic work he does. I think he's talents but not really an axeman.
The term axeman to me is more of a metal guitarist that has consistent style and badassness in all solos, and can be picked out among others.