One of the most disturbing pieces of 1984 was not the rats or even the idea that true love could be trampeled in the name of the State.

It was when O'Brien actually truly understood Winston's objections to the surveillance State. When Winston said O'Brien's mind encompassed his.

How many of you LARPers talking about it actually read the book? How many of you truly understood the mentality of the Brotherhood in the book and why the Party had no problem sharing the rebellious mentality?

About revisionist history?

Educate yourself, anon.

Read 1984.

For if O'Brien actually fully understood Winston's ideas of freedom, if O'Brien already fully accepted those views, if O'Brien understood Winston faithfully claiming that 'something' would eventually stop the Party.. and still went all in, then Winston's mind was a subset of his.

When O'Brien asked Winston under torture why the Party did what it did, Winston answered that they claimed to be for the greater good. O'Brien enacted pain.

He said don't try to lie - we gain power for power's sake.

He was fully aware of his motivations.

Unashamed.

Raw power.

Again, if you're gonna reference 1984 with modern times, maybe actually read the book first?

Shis is going down in Kazakhstan: https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1479517789450911747?t=3Zilj6KQWdmwFdZ-DT8qDQ&s=19

I'm not vaccinated but I don't care what anyone else does - I've been consistent since the start of this shitshow.

AI doesn't replace people, it displaces them. Low skilled individuals lose their jobs, which sucks and truly does happen, but the next generation just finds different jobs.

For example: We no long need human transcribers (people who convert audio into text).

So those people will lose their jobs to AI.

But we do need people to mindlessly label whether there's a cat in a picture to help train AI.

Tech has never ever ever made human labor obsolete on a mass scale. But it has put low skilled individuals out of a job in the short term.

I have to admit, it's hard to not make "unvaxxed" or "pureblood" (love the hilarious Harry Potter term - a mere stone's throw away from calling the vaxxed 'mudbloods') part of my identity.

But I know if I do, I am feeding into their identity politics, which is what they want.

I'm just a dude who didn't want the the needle.

I'm just a man who sees when his freedoms of bodily autonomy are being trammeled upon.

I have a lot more sympathy for the #prochoice women with abortion... despite their disgustingly cowardly hypocrisy in this situation.

Regardless, making this issue part of my identity actually makes me emotionally invested in viewing the world through their lens of "vaxxed vs unvaxxed".

I reject that dichotomy.

I'll always be anti-mandates.

But I'm trying to transcend their gluttonous identity politics.

My soul is a black hole - I can't be absorbed into another black hole.

Just as the singularity at the center of their games can't be absorbed into me.

I collect some individuals, as will they.

To view me as a mere cog in their system is spiritually naïve for those who know me.

People who apply the lens of race to every situation are the real racists.

I can honestly say I'm proud of how I acted in this situation. When people a thousand years from now look back on this situation, I'm unapologetically proud of my role.

Can you feel the subtle pressure on your mind of humans of future generations peering back into the past and judging your actions today on their standards?

Trying to perform revisionist history and analyzing your actions and thoughts, trying to fit it into their future paradigms?

In their misguided attempt to wage language warfare, they will overuse terms such as racism or trauma or phobia to the point where the meaning becomes so diluted into eventually being meaningless, thus shooting themselves in the foot while their most zealot supporters lap it up.