Social Classes in 1984 The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
by Emmanuel Goldstein (George Orwell)
“…if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would learn to think for themselves, become politically conscious and so depose the ruling oligarchy; therefore, in the long run, a hierarchical society is only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
Given that large-scale, mechanised production could not be eliminated once invented, the Party arranges the destruction of surplus goods, before that makes the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
Hence perpetual war is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. It is a deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another…
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life… A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors…
Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.”
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26th October 2012 at 9:56 pm
Stan says:
I am a prole
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26th October 2012 at 12:18 am
flash says:
Too late…. If you can stand in any line waiting to get your gun/business/drivers/hunting/fishing renewed and come away with any less sense of being a slave, then you truly are an easliy led moron of the highest order i.e. a patriot.
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26th October 2012 at 7:13 am
Thunderbird says:
George Orwell saw into the human mind and described what he saw in a story line he called 1984. He saw that nature rules us. Look at how we text… how we tweet? We are decimating our language and our thought patterns to conform with the basic function of life…to eat, to eat one another.
The mechanical systems we have put into place no longer let us think on our own. We conform to get the food we need to survive. But then the masses become the food for those that rule. Life becomes a game for the rulers that use the masses for their food for wars and all sorts of perverse reasons.
With the decimation of language, free thought becomes none existent because words then become shadows on the wall to be manipulated into saying nothing of meaning to the masses… or word fog.
Today we see word fog all around us. This is what Obama is using to talk to the American public. He speaks but says nothing. His intent is not known in his words. But he eats the product of the labor of the American people for his own desires, and his ideology of communism which is to keep the masses of people enslaved under the yoke of nature; which is to be food for the elite on top of the human garbage heap.
Our media is doing the same thing, weather on television or the newspaper the commentators speak but say nothing. Where is the syllogism where useful information is passed on to inform rather than bullshit using word fog? What happened to journalism?
Orwell says our only hope of not having a boot placed on the neck of humanity is not to let it happen. Well it is happening.
The only way out that I see is a psychological revolution. Humanity has to be jarred from it’s sleepwalk with nature. Humanity has to wake up and rise above nature. Humanity is designed to become higher beings with the proper development of consciousness in the individual. Collectivism is not the path of conscious development.
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26th October 2012 at 12:31 pm