The Ingsoc Party

1984 by George Orwell talked about one’s life in a dictatorship society. During my progress of reading, I realized how simple I used to think the world is. This book showed a very different style of governing, which leads to a different way of surviving in this dictatorship society. The “Big Brother is watching you” idea seemed to brainwashed everyone. People either truly believed or they pretended to believe this Ingsoc political ideology. A society where every movement was monitored, any “friend” around could be a spy, still, many people had this undoubted believe that the party would bring them better lives. Which in my point of view, their lives were not that great, lack of resources, lack of freedom to speak and think. It was impressive that the party, the Big Brother could use fear that everyone has toward pain and death to built an ideal society which is beneficial to the party, and convinced most people to believe that the party was doing what is best for them. This book reveals more …show more content…
This made me wonder what if such stories did happen in our world. Maybe some parts of the history we learned were faked. Just like what the Ingsoc party would do in the story; every paper that had related information which they didn’t like was retrieved, deleted, and replaced by a new story made up by the party. It was scary to make the assumption that not all of the human history was real. What we thought happened maybe a completely different story. However, it was hard to distinguish the differences between a faked history to a real one. The fact that all of our knowledge of who we are were from paper records gave parties like Ingsoc opportunities to leave a positive impression to later generations. This leads to another question which I was thinking during my