A Comparison: Elon Musk vs. The Thought Police of 1984

This is a mock comparison between Elon Musk and the Thought Police from George Orwell's novel 1984. This focuses on areas where their activates can be perceived to overlap, even if the methods are significantly different. It's intended to be a metaphorical, not a literal, comparison.

Primary Focus:

• The Thought Police: Maintaining total political orthodoxy. Elimination of "thoughtcrime."
• Elon Musk: Advancing technology, expanding presence (Twitter/X, Tesla, SpaceX), influencing public discourse.
• The Perceived Overlap: Both are fundamentally concerned with controlling or shaping information and how it is consumed. One by brute-force censorship, the other by algorithm and amplification.

Methods of Control:

• The Thought Police: Telescreens, physical surveillance, psychological torture, vanishing of individuals ("unpersons").
• Elon Musk: Algorithms (especially on X), changing visibility, "community notes" (for better or worse), purchase and reshaping of large platforms.
• The Perceived Overlap: While one uses the threat of violence, the other uses the threat of irrelevance. Both create systems where behavior and speech are altered to fit the parameters of the platform or the ideology.

Definition of Reality:

• The Thought Police: "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else... not in the individual mind... only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal." (O'Brien)
• Elon Musk: Musk often promotes a "single reality" or a "truth" as he sees it, but this truth is often malleable and dependent on his own perceptions or the feedback loop of his user base. He controls the narrative about his own ventures.
• The Perceived Overlap: Both entities essentially operate on the premise that they define what is real and what is relevant for the population they influence. "Post-truth" in the context of X's amplified content vs. the Party's constant rewriting of history.

The Role of Language:

• The Thought Police: Newspeak: Designing language to narrow the range of thought. If you can't say it, you can't think it.
• Elon Musk: The "Free Speech" Brand: Promoting a version of free speech on X that often includes reinstating previously banned users, while simultaneously de-amplifying or "shadowbanning" other content. "Un-woke" is a key linguistic marker.
• The Perceived Overlap: The Thought Police seek to remove words. Musk seeks to redefine words. Both are fundamentally attempts to steer and limit the acceptable scope of conversation and thought through language itself. The term "Free Speech" itself becomes a Newspeak-like tool.

Handling Dissent:

• The Thought Police: Arrest, torture, and forced confession (Winston Smith), followed by execution. The goal is internal conversion.
• Elon Musk: Suspension from the platform, public mocking on X, being "cancelled" (or un-cancelled, depending on whose side they're on), labels of "woke mind virus.”
• The Perceived Overlap: One destroys the physical person to force mental conformity. The other effectively destroys the digital person by removing their audience and platform, forcing conformity if one wants to remain part of the conversation.

Visible Symbol:

• The Thought Police: The Telescreen: A device you cannot turn off, which monitors and speaks to you simultaneously. Big Brother is always watching.
• Elon Musk: The X Platform (and X itself): A pervasive, constantly updated feed that is difficult to ignore. While not technically "monitoring" you in your home (unless you count user data), it is an omni-present force in the lives of users. The ultimate "telescreen" is the one you willingly carry in your pocket.
• The Perceived Overlap: Both are forms of panopticon. With the Thought Police, you are being watched to ensure compliance. With Musk's X, you watch yourself and others, performing your loyalty or conformity to the platform's (or Musk's) shifting ideology to avoid exile or irrelevance.

Important Key Distinction:

The Thought Police are a fictional government agency that operates and acts with the most absolute, physical, and murderous power of a totalitarian regime.

Elon Musk, while a real-world trillionaire with significant power, is subject to market forces and public backlash.

Note: Portions of this post were written with the help of AI.

Thanks to DarkSword for suggesting this topic.

Update regarding my name

I have made a major life change. As part of this change, I will be changing my legal name from Jonathan Hanzel to Jack Hanzel. The name change will begin showing up on YouTube and Twitch later this week, and will expand to other areas of my life over the course of the month.

Despite this shift, I will be continuing to maintain friendships and relationships with everyone else I have been, as well as making new friendships. Additionally, this will not affect my personality in any way, so I am the same person as Jack Hanzel that I was as Jonathan Hanzel.

While I prefer people to refer to me as Jack Hanzel from here on out, I will continue to accept Jonathan Hanzel as a former name and I will continue to respond to that name for the near future.

Thank you to all,

21 years old!

Today I turned 21!

Starting off the day with birthday cake, I opened a few presents, one of which was a Meta Quest 3S, something I have been planning to get for a few months now. (I obviously had to get Beat Saber on it)

As always, I will provide a full list of all presents in another post either this week or next week (as of writing, not all of them have been opened).

In the meantime, I'm going to have another slice of cake.

The Reese's Oreo crossover IS a confederacy. Here's how I know

On Tuesday, September 9th, I posted talking about how I believe that the Reese's Oreo crossover is a confederacy. I now have evidence that it IS a confederacy.

On September 12, 2025, I got an alert from YouTube that the Reese's Oreo confederacy video was removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines, and that I was given a strike for it. This alone proves that the Reese's Oreo crossover is a confederacy and that they don't want it to be exposed.

This is what I'm reminded of:

The Reese's Oreo crossover - is it a confederacy?

Usually I don't review foods on the internet, but this was one I couldn't ignore - the Reese's Oreo crossover.

Normally I'm a fan of Reese's Cups and Oreo cookies, but this, to me at least, doesn't make any sense, and I think they're trying to make it seem like something taken straight out of sci-fi.

Because of that, I often say that the crossover is a confederacy.

If you still want to see me try them, the video is down below.

EDIT (September 12, 2025): YouTube has issued a Community Guidelines strike on my Reese's Oreo video, proving that I was right about the crossover being a confederacy. Here's what this reminds me of:

Is this corporate greed taken to another level or what?

 On May 15, 2024, a video game company named U.X.E. released a video game called One Country. I pre-ordered it in March 2024 and played it almost every day since, even buying so many copies of the game to give to my friends. It was easily one of my most played games that I was hoping to get as many people into, and possibly the game I've spent the most money on (I can easily say I've spent over $1k on this game).

But then, they came back to hit me in April 2025 when they announced this:

When AI is used for kidnapping minors

This is something that I didn't think I was going to hear about but guess what, it happened.

On the week of May 16, a friend of mine named Jacob (who is 14) was contacted by an AI impersonation of a friend of his, who used Caller ID Spoofing to spoof the phone number of the friend they were impersonating. While I've seen this part before, I've never seen this turn into a kidnapping.

But guess what happened?

That's right, the AI impersonation lured Jacob into being kidnapped by a complete stranger who he knew nothing about.

Consider this a warning that this can happen to anyone. If you don't believe me, I've been contacted by these AI impersonators before, and I've been able to catch them in the act. Luckily I haven't been kidnapped by one, but my best advice would be to use a code phrase when you answer a call, something that would confuse an AI.

Or you can try prompt injecting. But that doesn't guarantee that it will work.