1984: Ignorance is Strength

The novel 1984 reveals a society comparable to that of the
year 1984. This society has progressed, and continues to progress
in the direction pointed out by George Orwell. “Impossible!”,
everyone says. “We would never allow ourselves to be controlled
that way!” These same people go home and turn on their
televisions in order to soak up some more “truths” presented by
their “honorable” leaders. These are today’s proles.
Hitler and Stalin burned libraries. Mas Tse Tsung wrote his
Red Book. Ociania, Big Brother, and the world of 1984 have
newspeak. All represent the limiting of minds though dictatorship,
but need to be official dictators in order to repress their followers.
This is evident in today’s world. Ignorance is strength; our
ignorance to repression increases the strength of our leaders,
allowing them to make proles of us all.
Repression is......

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