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Yuke ago

Never forget, in that book "Ingsoc" was a portmanteau of 'English Socialism'. Consider yourselves warned (that's a message to the shills who are actively working towards creating a '1984' but don't know it because they're stupid fucking NPC's).

senpaithatignoresyou ago

The thing about that book, is that form of government would collapse in decade, or once the wealth ran out, which ever came first.

It just can't exist, and the socialists don't see that.

Thin_White_Duke ago

It would survive. The party leaders explained that they were happy to live a shittier life than they could, as long as it was slightly better and they held power.

Every time I read it, I believe more and more that the party was setup to almost become autonomous. Like people were devolving to idiocy, just smart enough to keep the machines running and nothing else, feeding the party. Once history was erased, you didn't need Winston's group. Once geography was forgotten, who cares who we're at war with. Just get up, go to a factory, slave away, eat shit, drink piss, go home and sleep.

Disturbing as fuck.

Judgejewdy ago

Seems like America already.

senpaithatignoresyou ago

Yeah, that is disturbing. But unsustainable. The moment a hiccup hits that machine: a bad harvest, no more material, a new disease, too many births, not enough births, a random storm, etc etc, then the society would collapse.

The true crime in that book, the sin, the great evil: the destruction of the human spirit. Once that is gone, a person becomes useless.