Comments by "SteampunkBelladonna" (@SteamvilleQuintet) on "Ingraham: Decoding the left" video.
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@gibson617ajg Thanx for the nice note, in a rare mood, I think you deserve a full answer. To most YT comments, I don't waste my time, but I think you will enjoy it. I knew - know this info, grew up knowing, but did look it up to verify the dates, instead of relying on memory. Actually what Orwell wrote was fact long before it was fiction.
1) The first commercially made electronic television sets with cathode-ray tubes were manufactured by Telefunken in Germany in 1934. They could not "see us too" until the first cable television system in the United States was created in 1948 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania by John Walson, along with the infrared remote control invented in 1950. Remember that I am only quoting commercial to the public devices here, military uses would pre-date by 10 years usually more. So a "prediction" in 1949 did not astound me.
2) According to the mostly but never totally accurate google, King James I of England created a lottery in 1612 to fund Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent British settlement in North America. The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. Lotteries in America were all the rage during the Great Depression and before, only they were called "numbers rackets" and were illegal - it was said at the time cops bought tickets along with everyone else. Why wouldn't they! I have knowledge of lotteries going back to ancient Greece, Rome, Pompeii, Persia, Alexandria. They are really only the dice games of the time on a grand scale. Again, a "prediction" in 1949 did not wow me.
3) Wars fought constantly by armies who don't know why... Again to ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, Alexandria, and we could throw in the Celts and Vikings on this one, followed up later by the Knights Templar. I can't even ring this one up as a "prediction" in 1949, since everyone knew this 3000 years ago. There is a VERY old saying in Iran (Persia) - "People don't make war. Governments make war."
Now you see maybe why I said for me, "1984 was merely a novel."
What did impress me was the living breathing novel form of the self-fulfilling prophesy, called "Dune", written by Frank Herbert. Now baby, THAT's how people are truly controlled, and again been done (or planted) in all cultures since the ancients, add this time the Incas and Mayans. You would have to read Dune though, the movie version is by comparison a cartoon, and would have needed to be 12-16 hours long to do the book justice. Maybe one day we shall see that.
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