This has been an eye opening chapter for me. Never have I been more convinced that we are living in some sort of human farm/scientific dictatorship. Besides that rhetoric Orwell uses in this chapter, the parallels to our modern day are striking. Humans are raised and trained to perform specialized “jobs”, raise the next generation of human ensembles, and to be good consumers. In this chapter, TNG and myself discuss the propaganda techniques used to shape such a society of human “robots.”

The chapter also touches on the History Hoax and how do we know that any of the information presented to us is authentic.

At the end we also touched upon the impact of television on society, from a physiological and sociological perspective, and its impact in the conditioning process.

This has lead me to think about pets, and the crossovers between their domestication and the domestication of humans and the common behavioral patterns exhibited by both.

Thank you TNG for joining me on this call.