A powerful, global AI surveillance system has been announced this week by Al Gore. The system is powerful enough to detect emissions from every power plant, each farm, and every wood-burning stove on the planet. This system affords total information awareness to the powers that be — and is being plugged in to the DoD’s AI weapons system, in a war being perpetrated against all of humanity.

This video poses a question, going through the major themes of George Orwell’s 1984, the stages of ideological subversion, and connecting a work of fiction to the events of the present.