George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
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George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
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Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#2From the article:
>Are such perceptual and cognitive distortions possible?
Is this unknown? I think it's been know for a long time. What is difficult is reliably use it to get a desired result.
FYI, most of the HN crowd here are proles here who are incapable of identifying any truth in Orwell's writings.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#3From the article: >Are such perceptual and cognitive distortions possible? Is this unknown? I think it's been know for a long time. What is difficult is reliably use it to get a desired result. FYI, most of the HN crowd here are proles here who are incapable of identifying any truth in Orwell's writings.
> FYI, most of the HN crowd here are proles here who are incapable of identifying any truth in Orwell's writings.
can u elaborate
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#4From the article: >Are such perceptual and cognitive distortions possible? Is this unknown? I think it's been know for a long time. What is difficult is reliably use it to get a desired result. FYI, most of the HN crowd here are proles here who are incapable of identifying any truth in Orwell's writings.
> FYI, most of the HN crowd here are proles here who are incapable of identifying any truth in Orwell's writings. can u elaborate
They are probably referring to the kool aid drinkers
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#5Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#6>and Koba (as Stalin was sometimes affectionately known).
The live representation of old Russian anecdote about what West thinks about Russians. ;)
The anecdote is one-liner: History teacher in English school "...tsar Ivan Groznyj who was nicknamed Vasil'evich for his brutality". ("Groznyj" means "fearful" and "Vasil'evich" is a patronymic name)
Koba was a nickname of Stalin during his Tsarist Russia work with Bolsheviks. So to refer to Stalin as "Koba" is about to refer to Obama as "Barry".
Anyway, 1984 was about Britain and is a prediction based on what Blair endured working for BBC during WWII years.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#7Nineteen Eighty-Four, and most of Orwell's other works (including his essays) are freely available at:
Edited to add direct link to the appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four, as referenced at the end of the article:
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#8The amount of people who go out of their way to fit their perspective to a fictional novel is mind-boggling.
We are very much in the anti-1984 of phase. 74 Million people are controlled by Q, antigovernmental conspiracy theories than government controlling them.
The nation is effectively divided (complete opposite of single control). Heck, the government couldn't even get people to follow a simple mask rule let alone complete control.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#9The amount of people who go out of their way to fit their perspective to a fictional novel is mind-boggling.
We are very much in the anti-1984 of phase. 74 Million people are controlled by Q, antigovernmental conspiracy theories than government controlling them.
The nation is effectively divided (complete opposite of single control). Heck, the government couldn't even get people to follow a simple mask rule let alone complete control.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
#10Great to hear that science (neuroscience) here is catching up with Orwell. It is a great book, and Orwell was spot on with so much of what he wrote. How did he do it?
I think I know. I don't think Orwell (Erik Blair) was writing a book about a dystopian future. No. I think he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of, and then projecting that a little into the future. From personal experience with the BBC, he knew what news and history really were. As a connected individual (allowed to finish his work on the private owned island of Jura) he was aware of the plans that were in place.
So, I don't see 1984 as a dystopian vision of the future. I see it as a far more straightforward projection of what was already in place. We may be unaware of our prison, but Orwell was not - and was telegraphing it to us.
And most of us still do not get it, and cannot see it. We are glad big Brother is making us wear masks to help us breath better, that we are keeping away from our families because of love, that we will be 'cured' by a 'vaccine'.
And if you draw attention to this around here, you won't be thanked! We're not coding a harder, more impenetrable prison - we're making a better future, right?