A voice
crying in the wilderness.
Casandra
warning
1984
by George Orwell (Eric Blair)
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
“The enemy
of the moment always represents absolute evil.”
“If all
others accepted the lie which the party imposed – If all the records showed the
same tale – then the lie passed into history and became true. Who controls the past, ran the party slogan,
controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“Statistics
were just as much a fantasy in their original version. A great deal of the time you were suppose to
make them up out of your head.”
3 SOCIAL CLASSES
“The aim of the high is to remain where they are. The aim of the middle is to change places with the high. The aim of the low, where they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the low that they are too much crushed by the drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything out their daily lives.."
Oligarchy: a small group of people who govern a nation.
‘…the
deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated
and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and
progressive.”
“In the past
no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.”
“Double
think: (reality control) ie thou shall not kill but glorification of war
heroes.”
“Ministrys:
(reversals of facts)
Ministry of Peace
concerns itself with war.
Ministry of
Truth with lies.
Ministry of
Love with torture.
Ministry of
Plenty with starvation.”
INGSOC (the
Party)
“The
essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the
firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing
in them, to forget any facts that has become inconvenient…”
“The proles
are only intermittently conscious of the war.
When it is necessary they can prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred,
but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods of
time that war is happening. It is in the
ranks of the party, and above all the inner party, that true war enthusiasm is
found.”
“We know
that no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.”
MY COMMENT
1984 is a
primer on controlling a population.
INGSOC (the
party) successfully manipulates the mind of the proles (the people) to the
point that a person thinks the opposite of what is true: that 2+2= 5
INGSOC: Republican
Party 2024
the Ol’Buzzard
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, Joseph Goebbels
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