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History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population.
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to
extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.
Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police.
Thought Police. Written in 1949, it’s come to fruition.
The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.
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You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’
Men can have babies. More than one gender. The truth is under attack. They intentionally intend to undermine the principles that have held this country together for over 200 years.
