Shadow Of The Rising Dawn

adjective

1] Devoted to a religion or to the fulfillment of religious obligations.

2] Characterized by religious devotion or piety.

3] Fervently believing in or advocating an ideology or position.

The thing about prophecies and fables is that they're open to interpretation. So when it was told that the Goddess chooses her most devout believer to be her champion most people go with the idea of being fully devoted to a religion.

They just sputtered at that

"But your kind is a stain!!! You destroy eachother for fun and actively ruin others just to fill your own pockets. All your news reports bring new examples of this in their day to day reports...."

As they spoke I had a flashback to 10th grade. Our final unit in world history was the trial against humanity, whether or not humans should survive when another _____ came to earth.

I got assigned to be against humanity. Most of my classmates wanted that side of the argument. After all, the negatives make a much stronger impact in our minds than the positive. I switched with a classmate because although it was a losing battle I wanted to find the good in humanity. Naturally the side fighting for humanity lost. We've had a strong history over the years.

With a tone implying what I was stating was common fact i stated "There are over 8 billion people on this planet. Millions have done as you've said.... but that's not even an 8th of the population."

Eyes narrowing I continued "Also, your perfect planet. Why havent you prevented or stopped any of these things you so condemn? Get the duck out of here man."

The being puffed up, "I gave you free will. ObVioUsLy I wanted to give you a chnace to -..... what are you doing?"

I glanced up while sifting through my bag "I just remembered I had this on me"

Out of my bag came a squirt bottle. "Bad" I say accusingly. Simultaneously I squirt them with water. "Fuck off with you and your xenophobic statements"

"But-" They started

"No." I say squirting them again. They tried to start again just to recive another round of water to the eyes. They glared and started storming off, trying to start up their bullshit again.

"Welp," i say to myself, "someone needs to be taught a lesson and luckily I have a soda refill in my bag. Something tells me this is going to be a long day"

The two minute hate (daily???) is impossible not to join in.

But how? I find not yelling at a projecttion to be an easy task

The government controls the history changing it to fit the current events

Just find this to be intersting and scary

Everyone seemingly buys into the heavy propaganda w/o question

The views of the enemy (freedom of press, freedom of speech, etc) are mild in comparison to BB's propaganda yet collectively the oposition is wrong

Double speech - War is Peace - Freedom is slavery - Ignorance is strength

A bit of a hard thing to wrap my head around. At least for the first two statements I find them to be antonyms. But they're seen to be true

All children becoming part of spy groups

Fucking no thank you

24/7 being on guard as the government could be watching you specifically at any moment

Honestly explains the propoganda. If you have to follow the ideals or die you might as well go all out

Nothing being illegal as there are no laws yet some actions are death

This quote

"The enemy of the moment was always represented as absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with gim was impossible. [... ] the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death"

Concept of thought police

This feels a lot like "Youre a witch" type of thing. Like blatent anti BB actions/convo sure. But you look like you thought bad thoughts and because i said that youre dead.

Who controls that past controls the furture, who controls the present controls the past

*_* welp, it follows the same lines of history is written by the victors. This book also says that there is no records of events thus fact checking is impossible.

*Any written word in the book is constantly updated so the past statments/events now aligns with the present view

People who offended the party dissappeared for good with nothing informing the public

Hasn't this happened in multiple countries with authoritarian governments? Or just being a Boeing whistle blower

If you dont have the words to voice something it can't become an idea or reality

"The capitalists owned every thing in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death." [Page 73]

This feels very close to the united health care shooter. Luigi still hasn't gone to trial (as of writing these notes) and the judge is biased. But, because it was a CEO someone has to burn to set an example.

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The sentiment behind this is reoccurring throughout the book. Each time written in a new way. This reminds me of something I heard, we learn from the part of the story we choose to remember. With the past being constantly erased all you can learn from is what is shown to you.

What your eyes perceive and your ears hear is irrelevant. What the party said was the truth, regardless of evidence pointing otherwise.

With the American conservative party we can see this happening. If you show them proof that something they believe is wrong. They have the tendency to ignore or twist the proof, continuing to believe what they were told.

The party encourages the paranoia of always being watched

We all kind of knew that about the book. But thinking about it, this paranoia would cause a lot of self policing.

The proles are people who aren't part of the party. The party doesnt want them to have strong political feelings. The party just wanted an instilled patriotism that could be appealed to for lowering rations and increasing hours.

Fox News

In relation to the proles

i worked at a fancy gourmet coffee shop, but not everyone who came in knew that or cared, so we’d occasionally get ppl who got all their coffee knowledge from starbuckses. starbuckae? starbukakke

anyway sbux has this thing where they’re literally just wrong about what they call some drinks. for example, a cappuccino is traditionally a double shot of espresso with milk foam, like a few sips of drink, but at starbucks the smallest possible “cappuccino” is 8oz and espresso with that much milk? is really just a bastard latte. 

but to explain that to someone who doesnt know better takes time, and there a line forming, and a latte… is close enough to what someone who thinks of a cappuccino as a 16oz drink is expecting. so if someone asked for a “large cappuccino” we were instructed to go “okay :)”, plug in a large latte, and then, before they could see, scroll down to the secret buttons, the forbidden buttons, the deceit buttons, and press the one called “cappuccino”, in “quotes”, which would not only put a cappuccino on their receipt, but would send a message to the barista, across the room, who would then make a latte, see the pink “cappuccino” indicator, and go 

“large cappuccino? :)” 

The two minute hate (daily???) is impossible not to join in.

But how? I find not yelling at a projecttion to be an easy task

The government controls the history changing it to fit the current events

Just find this to be intersting and scary

Everyone seemingly buys into the heavy propaganda w/o question

The views of the enemy (freedom of press, freedom of speech, etc) are mild in comparison to BB's propaganda yet collectively the oposition is wrong

Double speech - War is Peace - Freedom is slavery - Ignorance is strength

A bit of a hard thing to wrap my head around. At least for the first two statements I find them to be antonyms. But they're seen to be true

All children becoming part of spy groups

Fucking no thank you

24/7 being on guard as the government could be watching you specifically at any moment

Honestly explains the propoganda. If you have to follow the ideals or die you might as well go all out

Nothing being illegal as there are no laws yet some actions are death

This quote

"The enemy of the moment was always represented as absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with gim was impossible. [... ] the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death"

Concept of thought police

This feels a lot like "Youre a witch" type of thing. Like blatent anti BB actions/convo sure. But you look like you thought bad thoughts and because i said that youre dead.

Who controls that past controls the furture, who controls the present controls the past

*_* welp, it follows the same lines of history is written by the victors. This book also says that there is no records of events thus fact checking is impossible.

*Any written word in the book is constantly updated so the past statments/events now aligns with the present view

People who offended the party dissappeared for good with nothing informing the public

Hasn't this happened in multiple countries with authoritarian governments? Or just being a Boeing whistle blower

If you dont have the words to voice something it can't become an idea or reality

The two minute hate (daily???) is impossible not to join in.

But how? I find not yelling at a projecttion to be an easy task

The government controls the history changing it to fit the current events

Just find this to be intersting and scary

Everyone seemingly buys into the heavy propaganda w/o question

The views of the enemy (freedom of press, freedom of speech, etc) are mild in comparison to BB's propaganda yet collectively the oposition is wrong

Double speech - War is Peace - Freedom is slavery - Ignorance is strength

A bit of a hard thing to wrap my head around. At least for the first two statements I find them to be antonyms. But they're seen to be true

All children becoming part of spy groups

Fucking no thank you

24/7 being on guard as the government could be watching you specifically at any moment

Honestly explains the propoganda. If you have to follow the ideals or die you might as well go all out

Nothing being illegal as there are no laws yet some actions are death