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Post by Yoda on Oct 10, 2021 18:49:22 GMT -8
Here is a very good example of the title of this thread.
The book by George Orwell, '1984'.
Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.
As the novel opens, Winston feels frustrated by the oppression and rigid control of the Party, which prohibits free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality. Winston dislikes the party and has illegally purchased a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts. He has also become fixated on a powerful Party member named O’Brien, whom Winston believes is a secret member of the Brotherhood—the mysterious, legendary group that works to overthrow the Party.
Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party. He notices a coworker, a beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him, and worries that she is an informant who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He is troubled by the Party’s control of history: the Party claims that Oceania has always been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, but Winston seems to recall a time when this was not true. The Party also claims that Emmanuel Goldstein, the alleged leader of the Brotherhood, is the most dangerous man alive, but this does not seem plausible to Winston. Winston spends his evenings wandering through the poorest neighborhoods in London, where the proletarians, or proles, live squalid lives, relatively free of Party monitoring.
One day, Winston receives a note from the dark-haired girl that reads “I love you.” She tells him her name, Julia, and they begin a covert affair, always on the lookout for signs of Party monitoring. Eventually they rent a room above the secondhand store in the prole district where Winston bought the diary. This relationship lasts for some time. Winston is sure that they will be caught and punished sooner or later (the fatalistic Winston knows that he has been doomed since he wrote his first diary entry), while Julia is more pragmatic and optimistic. As Winston’s affair with Julia progresses, his hatred for the Party grows more and more intense. At last, he receives the message that he has been waiting for: O’Brien wants to see him.
Winston and Julia travel to O’Brien’s luxurious apartment. As a member of the powerful Inner Party (Winston belongs to the Outer Party), O’Brien leads a life of luxury that Winston can only imagine. O’Brien confirms to Winston and Julia that, like them, he hates the Party, and says that he works against it as a member of the Brotherhood. He indoctrinates Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, the manifesto of the Brotherhood. Winston reads the book—an amalgam of several forms of class-based twentieth-century social theory—to Julia in the room above the store. Suddenly, soldiers barge in and seize them. Mr. Charrington, the proprietor of the store, is revealed as having been a member of the Thought Police all along.
Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O’Brien, too, is a Party spy who simply pretended to be a member of the Brotherhood in order to trap Winston into committing an open act of rebellion against the Party. O’Brien spends months torturing and brainwashing Winston, who struggles to resist. At last, O’Brien sends him to the dreaded Room 101, the final destination for anyone who opposes the Party. Here, O’Brien tells Winston that he will be forced to confront his worst fear. Throughout the novel, Winston has had recurring nightmares about rats; O’Brien now straps a cage full of rats onto Winston’s head and prepares to allow the rats to eat his face. Winston snaps, pleading with O’Brien to do it to Julia, not to him.
Giving up Julia is what O’Brien wanted from Winston all along. His spirit broken, Winston is released to the outside world. He meets Julia but no longer feels anything for her. He has accepted the Party entirely and has learned to love Big Brother.
Look at our society now. It's it becoming very dystopian now. - Yoda
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Post by Yoda on Oct 10, 2021 18:51:38 GMT -8
Video Games
5 pandemic-themed video games for if you want to feel slightly more terrified
Austin Farber, Game Critic|April 30, 2020
Plague Inc.s logo.
Plague Inc.’s logo.
In these uncertain times of self-isolation, it’s easy to feel like the world is spinning out of control. Here are some video games where you can determine the outcome of a major virus. Take back control.
5. ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division 2’
This game follows the story of a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C.’s struggle to stay above a smallpox pandemic raging through the city. In a first-person point of view of the Strategic Homeland Division agent, your goal is to prevent D.C.’s total collapse and to stop the terrorists who released the virus. The game launched last year and is available for PC, Uplay, PS4, and Xbox One.
4. ‘Bloodborne’
While attempting to unravel the source of an unstoppable bloodborne pathogen infecting Victorian London, your character, a hunter, will face several mysteries and imposing beasts. There’s no social distancing in this city, and you can shoot, stab, and explode your way through the nightmare plague and stop it completely. ‘Bloodborne’ is available on PS4.
3. ‘Resident Evil 2’
In this remake thriller, players control police officer Leon Kennedy and college student Clair Redfield as they battle a zombie outbreak in Raccoon city. The outbreak begins when a virus escapes containment from a major corporation and quickly infects citizens. Help Leon stop the virus and Clair find her brother in this intense thriller. ‘Resident Evil 2’ is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
2. ‘Vampyr’
This third-person action thriller follows Jonathan Reid, a doctor who has turned into a vampire before setting out to solve the mystery of his own creation. This adventure is set in London during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918. You control Reid’s fate as he wakes up in a shallow grave outside of the city. Will he succumb to his new bloodthirsty nature? That’s for you to decide. ‘Vampyr’ is available on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
1. ‘Plague Inc.’
This game is number one for a reason. In this global pandemic simulator, the player is the pathogen and you decide where it goes and who it infects. This game uses a realistic epidemic model with variables and graphics. You can spread any virus as you wish and see how fast it spreads. ‘Plague Inc.’ is available on the Android, PC, Mac, and IOS app stores, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
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Post by Yoda on Oct 10, 2021 18:59:16 GMT -8
Predictive Programming: Tom Clancy’s The Division and the Corona Virus Connection
March 22, 2020 by Triangulum Intel, posted in Geostrategy There have been many articles, videos and forums discussing the many movies, commercials and cartoons that have predicted many future events that have significantly devastated economies, dismantled civil liberties and engaged the world into perpetual war with “East Asia” (1984 Reference) and currently the new invisible enemy, the Corona Virus. I have found interesting similarities between Tom Clancy’s The Division and the Corona Virus Pandemic Tom Clancy’s The Division – On Black Friday 2015, a viral epidemic, transmitted by a virus planted on banknote sweeps through New York City. 1st known case of corona virus was traced back to November in China. Corona is Synonym of Crown- A crown is a unit of currency. New York City is currently the corona virus hot spot in America. Examples of Corona Currency Czech: koruna Norwegian and Danish: krone Icelandic and Faroese: króna Swedish: krona Greenlandic: koruuni Northern Sami: ruvdna Estonian: kroon German: Krone (capital letter k) Hungarian: korona Slovak: koruna Both occurred in the month of November, both are spread by “currency” and New York City is the hot zone. Tom Clancy’s The Division: The disease, known as “The Dollar Flu”, causes widespread chaos, and major cities are placed under quarantine. As More States Clamp Down, 1 in 4 Americans ( 85 Million) Now Under ‘Shelter in Place’ Orders Due to Coronavirus What is the Stafford Act? Trump says he’s using it to declare ‘major disaster’ in response to coronavirus crisis Tom Clancy’s The Division- The U.S. Government activates sleeper agents in the population who operate for the Strategic Homeland Division, or simply “the Division”, to assist emergency responders and National Guardsmen, Nathaniel the division agent who is a real person and prior ghost soldier and the Joint Task Force Trump triggers Defense Production Act in coronavirus fight. Trump activates National Guard in California, New York and Washington state: ‘This is a war EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE THE MILITARY’S TOP SECRET PLANS IF CORONAVIRUS CRIPPLES THE GOVERNMENT I am anticipating that New York City in the coming days will classify certain areas as the “Dark Zone”. Tom Clancy’s The Division-They also find a message from Keener, showing he has the technology to manufacture a new strain of Green Poison and intends to do so, and mysteriously tells the agent to explore the center of Manhattan, called the “Dark Zone. Tom Clancy’s The Division- the Rioters, common street thugs in New York who generally want to take advantage of the quarantine, the Rikers, escapees from Rikers Island Trump is considering releasing elderly, ‘totally nonviolent’ offenders from federal prisons amid coronavirus outbreak US jails begin releasing prisoners to stem Covid-19 infections Very strange cryptic similarities between Tom Clancy’s fictional world and the current situation with the Corona virus and New York City.
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Post by linen on Oct 11, 2021 5:19:44 GMT -8
Interesting thread. I would have put all forms of control under the Social Control thread but this breaks down the propaganda even more. Thanks.
1984 is a very well known book here in the U.S.
Games? Lol, I'll leave that to your expertise. With boys in your household you know more about that.
We know television and movies use programming. Disney is full of symbolism. Cartoon type programs like South Park, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, King of the Hill and The Simpsons all use programming. That's just to name a few. Sitcoms do it to. Movies, via sci-fi and futuristic/dystopian themes tell us what will be happening in our lives soon.
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Post by Yoda on Oct 11, 2021 11:37:59 GMT -8
Also, there are movies like the Matrix (sequels), Jupiter Ascending (both movies were written and directed by the Wachowskis). They know something most don't. They convey their messages through movies.
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Post by linen on Oct 11, 2021 13:42:07 GMT -8
I watched the Matrix movies, but I didn't identify with them. Apparently I watched Jupiter Ascending, but don't remember it.
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Post by Yoda on Oct 11, 2021 14:57:09 GMT -8
You should look into the deep meaning in the movies intended by the Wachowskis.
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Post by linen on Oct 11, 2021 15:57:48 GMT -8
You should look into the deep meaning in the movies intended by the Wachowskis. You're not going to like what I found. link |
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Post by Yoda on Oct 11, 2021 15:57:51 GMT -8
From 'studies done' thread
" The film opens with an introduction of the origins of the Umbrella Corporation which at the beginning of the 21st century is the world's biggest conglomerate while its political and economic influence is felt everywhere. But unbeknownst to the public, it hides a sinister and criminal secret that the megacorporation itself is involved in bioweaponry and genetic experimentation. Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside. Alice awakens in the bathroom of a deserted mansion with temporary amnesia. She dresses, checks the mansion, and is tackled by an unknown person as a group of commandos led by James Shade breaks in. Alice's attacker is cuffed and then released when he claims to be Matt Addison, who just transferred as a cop in Raccoon P.D.. Alice and Matt are ordered to go down to the Hive with the group, where they find another amnesiac, Spence, hidden in their train. The commandos explain that everyone in the group except Matt is an employee of the Umbrella Corporation, and Alice and her partner Spence were assigned to guard the Hive's secret entrance under the mansion under the pretense of being married. At the Red Queen's chamber, a laser defense system kills Shade and three more commandos. Despite the Red Queen's urgent pleas for the group to leave, Kaplan disables it, causing the power to fail and all of the doors in the Hive to open. This releases the zombified staff and containment units containing Lickers, creatures created through experimentation with the T-virus. The humans are attacked by the horde: J.D. dies; a bitten Rain retreats with Kaplan and Spence; and Matt becomes separated from Alice, who starts regaining her memories. Matt looks for information about his sister, Lisa, and finds her zombified. Alice saves him, and Matt explains he and Lisa were environmental activists, and Lisa infiltrated Umbrella to smuggle out the evidence of illegal experiments. Alice remembers she was Lisa's contact in the Hive but does not tell Matt. The survivors reunite at the Red Queen's chamber, where the commandos explain they have one hour before the Hive traps them inside automatically. Alice and Kaplan activate the Red Queen to find an exit. To force her cooperation, they rig a remote shutdown. As they escape through maintenance tunnels, zombies ambush them, and a reanimated J.D. bites Rain before she then shoots him dead. They all reach safety except Kaplan, who is bitten and separated from the group. Alice remembers that an anti-virus is in the lab, but they find it missing. Spence and Alice remember that Spence was the thief who stole and purposefully released the T-virus, and hid the T-virus and anti-virus on the train. Spence turns against the others but is bitten by a zombie, which he kills before trapping the survivors in the lab. Spence retrieves the anti-virus but is killed by a Licker set upon him by the Red Queen. The Red Queen offers to spare Alice and Matt if they kill Rain, who has been infected too long for the anti-virus to work reliably. As the Licker attempts to reach them, a power outage occurs. The lab door opens to reveal that Kaplan shut down the Red Queen to open the door. The group heads to the train, where Alice retrieves the anti-virus and kills a reanimated Spence before escaping with the others. On the train, they inject Rain and Kaplan with the anti-virus. The Licker, having hidden on the train, attacks them, clawing Matt and killing Kaplan. Alice subdues the Licker before Matt is attacked by a zombified Rain, the anti-virus having failed to cure her. He shoots Rain dead, and her head hits a button, opening a door and dropping the Licker under the train, killing it. At the mansion, Matt's wound begins mutating. Before Alice can give him the anti-virus, the mansion doors burst open, and a group of Umbrella scientists seizes them. They subdue Alice and take Matt away, revealing he is to be put into the Nemesis Program, and that the Hive is to be re-opened for an investigation into the incident. Sometime later, Alice awakens at the Raccoon City Hospital strapped to an examination table. She escapes outside to find Raccoon City deserted and in ruins. She retrieves a shotgun from an abandoned police car and continues through the streets." Source |
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Post by linen on Oct 11, 2021 15:59:39 GMT -8
It's time to unplug for the night Yoda. I'll pick it up tomorrow.
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