What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. If this is such a relatable motive, how come almost no one talks about it? Social Desirability Bias, of course. Why would these be the Party’s two aims? Power-hunger, of course.
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One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand… There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. Or the major political parties’ eager use of statistics to plan their electoral strategies, but not to guide their policy platforms. Think about all of the brilliant scientists who just repeat popular platitudes when they talk about public policy. This “compartmentalization” is readily visible in today’s world as well. But in matters of vital importance - meaning, in effect, war and police espionage - the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.
The fields are cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist… In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. Please leave your thoughts and questions in the comments and I’ll do an omnibus reply later this week. And now it’s time to finish our critical read of TPOC.
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