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By the end of this video, you will be brainwashed. There's nothing you can do about it; we just wanted to let you know. We like to think we're bigger than Big Brother...
Transcript
- 00:05
1984, a la Shmoop. Dear Diary… I think I'm paranoid. I always
- 00:13
feel like somebody's watching me. Maybe it's because of the giant flat screens in my living
- 00:20
room that monitor my every move.
- 00:22
Or the neighbor kids spying on me like snitches-in-training. Or the giant posters that say, "Big Brother
- 00:28
is watching you."
Full Transcript
- 00:30
It's enough to give a guy a complex. Don’t believe me? You try peeing in front of a telescreen.
- 00:40
… I'm a member of the Party of Oceania, which
- 00:43
sounds glamorous…
- 00:44
…but it's kind of a drag. I have to wear overalls, which are all wrong for my body
- 00:47
type…
- 00:47
…and my job is absolutely mind-numbing. The party likes to change history a lot, and
- 00:51
whenever it does, I'm the “White-out Guy.”
- 00:53
There aren't many perks to living in Oceania.
- 00:56
You are the one bright spot in my life, Diary, and I'm pretty sure I'd be killed if anyone
- 01:01
found out that you existed. The Party isn’t exactly supportive of free thinking.
- 01:06
It’s not like there’s any juicy bits in here, though, because I don't have much of
- 01:10
a love life to write about. There is one girl I’ve got the hots for, but she's sworn to
- 01:14
celibacy. Great.
- 01:14
Plus, she acts like a real snob. I was pretty sure she hated me, too, but the other day
- 01:19
she slipped me a note saying that she loved me! Wowza!
- 01:22
That kind of thing just doesn't happen in Oceania. We aren't really allowed to date,
- 01:24
much less fall in love. Now that I know her, Julia and I get along
- 01:26
pretty well, although she's not as into the revolutionary stuff as I am. She just wants
- 01:30
me for my body. I guess I'll learn to live with it, somehow.
- 01:31
Julia and rented a secret room in a secondhand store without any recording devices. Which
- 01:35
is fine with me, because I really don't want a sex tape getting leaked.
- 01:36
Our gooses are totally cooked if we’re discovered, but torture and death won't be a big deal,
- 01:37
as long as Julia and I stay secretly true to each other.
- 01:37
I mean… how bad could a little torture be, anyway…right? …. Right?
- 01:38
By now you’ve probably gotten the impression that the Party is a sinister, mind-controlling
- 01:42
government. You’d be correct. But there is one force that resists the party...the
- 01:52
Brotherhood.
- 01:53
No, they're not a group of mutants with superpowers, but how cool would that be?
- 01:58
Still, even without a telepathy-resistant helmet, anyone who fights Big Brother is okay
- 02:01
with me.
- 02:02
You know, this guy at work, O'Brien, gave me a weird look the other day, and it made
- 02:07
me wonder whether he's a member of the Brotherhood!
- 02:09
But it's not just something you can just come out and mention to a guy, like… telling
- 02:10
him he’s got spinach in his teeth. Breaking news, Diary…it’s true! O'Brien
- 02:13
invited Julia and me over to his pad. It was so cool. He even turned off his telescreen
- 02:16
so nobody could eavesdrop on us!
- 02:17
O’Brien has tons of actual books which somehow escaped the Party’s clutches, and he loaned
- 02:24
me the manifesto of the Brotherhood! What a guy.
- 02:29
I'm actually starting to think that life might not be an endless slog fill of drudgery and
- 02:33
despair!
- 02:34
Okay, Diary. I'm writing this entry in my head, because you aren't here. Where am I?
- 02:42
Well, that's a funny story...
- 02:43
Let me sum it up for you... O'Brien is really in cahoots with the Thought Police, and he's
- 02:50
been watching me for 7 years. How did I not figure out that this guy was an evil genius?
- 02:55
He's also really good at torture, and his goal is to brainwash me until I love Big Brother
- 03:00
again.
- 03:00
Yeah right. I'll always secretly hate that mustachioed twerp, and keep on loving Julia.
- 03:08
Even if O'Brien says she ratted me out in interrogation.
- 03:10
Speaking of rats…I really hoped nobody would figure out that rats are my worst nightmare,
- 03:12
but what do you know… O'Brien guessed it!
- 03:13
He had rats… big, hungry rats! And he was going to put them on my face!
- 03:21
And you know what? I decided to opt out of that. Yes sir. I told O'Brien to put those
- 03:28
rats on Julia's face, not mine! And then it was over!
- 03:31
Shoot, if I'd known It was that easy, I would have sold Julia out a long time ago. I don't
- 03:33
need her anymore, anyway. I'm a happy man now. I just love Big Brother. Don't you?
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