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Up to what extent is 1984 a reflection of our society?
Encourage ignorance
Both societies encouraged not to think for ourselves
believe the information we are fed since we are little kids without questioning it
our society
Social media
People never doubt from what they read/see on the internet
Information is manipulated to the advantage of governments/companies
Government
public education is underfunded and is
not a priority
indirectly this benefits the government as ignorance is strengthened
"Ignorance is strength"
allows government to control information and tell us whatever benefits them
1984
“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy”
Government has total control of the present and therefore, the past; everything people learn in school and in books is manipulated by the party in their favor
“2 + 2 = 5”
Double think
the power of holding two contra- dictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
As language shrinks, the capacity for expression is also limited
As a consequence, thoughts are narrowed too
Surveillance
1984
telescreens watch and listen to citizens 24/7
"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU"
"For seven years I have watched over you”
"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics. [...] Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved"
"Every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized"
“The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”
Our society
technology controls and conditions our behaviour
social media
people post a lot of details of their lives
easy to gather information for a negative purpose and/or track them down
targeted ads
phones gather information about people, to the extent that it listens to our conversations, to sell us products
lies
fake news and false information spread easily
what people post isn't usually exactly what they live (a better version)
conditions others to change what they do, how they feel, etc.
Artificial inteligence with personal assistant functions
listen to you anywhere in your house/ anywhere you go if it is a phone application
Theory/discussion: Can they listen to you even when they're "turned off"?
Relationship between classes
Our society
people always try to get to power
Middle class
are the outer party
they fight for the power of the high class
High class
are the Inner party
they have power
Low class
are the proles
they fight for a better quality of life but never get it.
Communist manifesto
1984
social classes are described as an important key for control and power for the Party
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.”
constantly in war to get to power
Inner party
the ones who have power
Outer party
tries to overthrow the Inner party and ask for help from the proles
proles
will never rise since they are always betrayed by the Outer party
“the essential structure of society has never altered.”
“class distinctions had been not only inevitable but desirable. Inequality was the price of civilization.”
The book
