Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Why is there no potential for a rebellion in 1984?

Here's the recipe for keeping people unattached,
disorganized, uninformed, unmotivated, and
afraid:


Torture.


Physical
torture:
prisoners are isolated and beaten.  Their teeth are pulled out.
 They are put in cages with rats.  The Ministry of Love and Room 101 are the church and
confessional of this dystopia.  This society is geared only for pain and
suffering.


Psychological
torture:
people are afraid of each other: anyone could be a spy.  Cameras
are everywhere.  Parents are turned in by their kids.  Women are taught to hate sex.  No
one is trusted.  Everyone's addicted to gin and
misery.


Institutional torture:
there's no healthcare; there's no schools' there's not freedoms of speech; there's only
war.


So, torture breaks the will of basic existence, let
alone abstractions like rebellion.  It tears down the body and the mind.  Rebellion?
 What's that?  It cannot even be conceived.  The fatalism of 1984 does not allow for
rebellion.  If it does, it is solitary, harmless, and easily
quashed.

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