1984 Tried to Warn You, But Did You Listen?
'It was always the women who were the most bigoted adherents of the party.'
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” - George Orwell, 1984
No wonder reading “1984” puts you on a list of being a far-right extremist in England. This Orwell guy was a bigot! Or was he?
The way I see it, the 2024 election is Men Vs. Women.
Not in the literal sense, although that is also true. But while traveling the country (I’m currently in Philadelphia), I've observed a growing trend: young men—Black, White, Hispanic—are rallying behind Donald Trump. Many have even confided in me, eager to share their decision to support him at the polls.
And if you’re a young woman, you’re voting for Kamala.
According to Gallup research, from 2017 to 2024, 41% of white women aged 18-29 identified as liberals, outpacing their peers of color by 2 percentage points.
Why is this?
If you look at George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ it has the answer.
1984 Tried To Warn Us
When you reread ‘1984,’ the main character, Winston, sounds like a subscriber of the manosphere: he sounds like Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, or Jordan Peterson. He doesn’t like what women have become. He hates their loyalty to Big Brother.
Some might consider Orwell’s point here about young women an eccentricity of ‘1984,’ but I don’t. It’s no accident; it's deliberate.
Women were largely controlled by shame for thousands of years. Society kept them in line sexually through fear of attack on their character, not from men, mostly from other women, who see it as their job.
You can see this play out in high school. Girls will smear each other as whores.
I was the last generation to see this happen: a cheerleader in my school’s naked photos once got leaked, and it wasn’t guys who turned on her; it was other girls.
But since sexual liberation, this fell out of popularity. That cheerleader would have an OnlyFans today! The newest form of prudishness and social conformity is to adopt Woke or Neoliberal approved ideology. It is the current form of religious chastity.
Shaming women by women never went away; it simply evolved into social justice.
Remember those IG black squares? What did they do for black people? Nothing.
You need to understand that women, ESPECIALLY modern White American Women, are easily manipulated through social media and Hive-Mind Mentality.
Modern women do not like being on the outside when it comes to social issues that seem a majority of people are against, so she will go against it as well. All you have to do is look at the reaction to George Floyd/BLM and you’ll understand everything about women.
I was talking to a white woman the other day over coffee and she refused to understand that black poverty had anything to do with personal agency.
It’s like I was arguing with the television or CNN.
What sounded good—blaming it all on systemic racism— was better than any other solution, even when I cited liberal Black NYT columnist John McWhorter.
I agreed that systemic injustice contributes to various challenges through unintended effects, but the term "systemic racism" implies a universal, overarching issue affecting every level. That problems can never be because of personal choices or community dynamics. Bullshit. There are a lot of layers between "the system is rigged" and "it's all your fault.”
Of course, she did not care! Even though I was a black man explaining to her the problems of the black community, it had no effect because it didn’t sound like something John Oliver or David Muir would say. Ironic, ain’t it?
Women Are Being Trained to be Government-Conforming Communists
Orwell was making a psychological point in ‘1984.’ Women are higher in what psychologists call “trait: agreeableness.”
This means women are more likely to form relationships and dominate the current system (college used to be a 13% gap in favor of men in 1972; now a 15% gap in favor of women) while men are riskier and more likely to drop out of society or be on the wrong side of the law.
It’s why the protagonist of ‘1984’ is a demoralized male… something we see more of today. The reality is that both groups need each other, but no one seems to understand this.
I read 1984 way back in high school and I always thought the concept of doublespeak was kinda silly and implausible but they've actually done it. Us being told that Trump is Hitler, that women and men are better apart, and that transgender men should compete in women’s sports is textbook doublespeak.
“Don't rely on your eyes and ears. The party will tell you how to perceive reality.”
I Still Blame Men
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” ~ George Orwell
Yes, men have it hard today. Bad parenting alone haunts men; hell, I only got the ‘sex talk’ from my dad at 18 years old, well past the years when it mattered.
But it’s no excuse. I lay society's problems at man’s feet.
Femininity is clever when it comes to intelligence—it's a "street smart" way of working the world. But it cannot know the truth and, through truth, build.
That's definitively masculine. It's part of why The Science, in an age of weak, feminized men, cannot find the difference in that data when comparing large groups of men and women.
In order for masculinity to be developed, boys (which start as feminine) need to become men (masculinity awakened and developed). When that doesn't happen, men just look like weaker women AKA incels. Whereas women, when being free from the bounds of the definition of what is feminine, look like incomplete men.
This is all to say - you should hate your fathers and your grandfathers for beginning the decline. LOL just kidding… not really.
Sure, there are women and men thriving independently, but beneath the surface lies young women indoctrinated by Big Brother and a generation of men failing their roles, which may lead to self-destruction—and potentially, national decline.
Blaming the masculinity crisis on systems or past men is pointless now.
The burden is on the shoulders of every man in The West: be stronger, challenge yourself, don’t be afraid to stand out from the sheep. Do it now or we all lose.
“ It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
— 1984
This article was edited to Tim Hecker’s ‘Incense at Abu Ghraib.’