Due to the overwhelming poverty that the absorption of resources by the sponge of constant warfare induces on the underprivileged masses, the Party is able to diminish the standard of living enough to stupefy the citizens so that they lack any semblance of recalcitrant vigor.“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent….In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population….It
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While it may seem as though rationing is enough to stiffen the comfort of the masses by ungenerously delimiting the circulation of commodities, rationing does not entail the same spirit-crushing and backbreaking reality of toiling on the daily to produce resources that one never sees the likes of that the aforementioned Party ploy does. By keeping the masses destitute, starving, and worn out, while simultaneously propagandizing the always imminent dangers of war, the handing over of all power to the Party becomes the only feasible avenue of sure …show more content…
Undoubtedly, the Party weaves the exploitative fibers of constant warfare into the fabric of daily life, tearing seams in the sanity, safety, and livelihood of its subjects and resewing with its own despotic desires. Thus, the Party fashions a stupefacient blanket of oppressive terror with which it rigidly tucks in the body of society, constricting each and every person to abide the Party in all things. Orwell truly crafts a eye-opening representation of how a government can turn warfare, a means of protecting all citizens and safeguarding the general welfare, into a tool of interior tyranny. 1948 serves as a cautionary tale for all those who dare to hand over freedom to any organization in the hopes of gaining security, hopefully provoking them to think twice about what that transaction actually entails. This deep contemplation certainly must happen before one finds himself under the oppression of warfare that is all too relentless to
While it may seem as though rationing is enough to stiffen the comfort of the masses by ungenerously delimiting the circulation of commodities, rationing does not entail the same spirit-crushing and backbreaking reality of toiling on the daily to produce resources that one never sees the likes of that the aforementioned Party ploy does. By keeping the masses destitute, starving, and worn out, while simultaneously propagandizing the always imminent dangers of war, the handing over of all power to the Party becomes the only feasible avenue of sure …show more content…
Undoubtedly, the Party weaves the exploitative fibers of constant warfare into the fabric of daily life, tearing seams in the sanity, safety, and livelihood of its subjects and resewing with its own despotic desires. Thus, the Party fashions a stupefacient blanket of oppressive terror with which it rigidly tucks in the body of society, constricting each and every person to abide the Party in all things. Orwell truly crafts a eye-opening representation of how a government can turn warfare, a means of protecting all citizens and safeguarding the general welfare, into a tool of interior tyranny. 1948 serves as a cautionary tale for all those who dare to hand over freedom to any organization in the hopes of gaining security, hopefully provoking them to think twice about what that transaction actually entails. This deep contemplation certainly must happen before one finds himself under the oppression of warfare that is all too relentless to