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1984 + 42<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In one combination or another, these three super-states [Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia] are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, however is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To understand the nature of the present war – … – one must realise in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“… and the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
(…) The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.
(…) it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(…) Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The war, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. (…) It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Orwell, 1984<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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