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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows." A true subject value is not enough, it's the power of a crowd belief that binds them together. The government alters facts and use the crowd psychology that the government is right. Truth was never told. These truths were used to maintain this cocoon. Once the butterfly is released, the ugly beings sees them as pests.
— Nov 18, 2017 02:06AM
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Jake
is on page 190 of 328
"The proles... were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another." The radical dictatorship of Big Brother and radical romanticism of Goldstein. The proles, innocent, which makes them harder to convince. They are loyal to their values, not ones of the country. While rebels like Winston lost their minds for their abstract romanticism.
— Nov 21, 2017 05:00AM
Jake
is on page 60 of 328
“Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had been once different?” In the story, the main character lives in a society of blind crowd, in cocoons of lies they wrapped themselves into. It’s like it was mentioned in the book “The Crowd”: the crowd is mostly blind, even for ones who are not, the government made sure that they fit in with the conformity.
— Nov 14, 2017 07:07AM
Jake
is on page 32 of 328
Brilliant so far. Every tiny chapter of a few pages tells me so much about the world of 1984. Intense. Page turner.
— Nov 08, 2017 07:12AM
