Machines & Class Threats
According to the Book, what major innovation threatened to eliminate class differences?
Machines/industrialization
What is the Party’s main “solution” for preventing surplus and equality?
Continuous/perpetual war.
What is one method the Party uses to keep people able to work but unable to think deeply?
Perpetual war
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Report
Proles
Ordinary working-class people
Why would machines doing all the work threaten the ruling class?
Equal distribution of wealth could erase class differences.
Why does the Party insist on endless war?
To destroy extra goods and prevent comfort.
What is the second main method to prevent the masses from getting too comfortable?
Controlled rationing
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What did the Party fear would collapse if machines created total equality?
The class system/hierarchy
What economic method does the Party use to make sure people have enough to survive, but never enough to think deeply?
Controlled rationing.
Why does rationing keep people from becoming too intelligent?
It keeps them busy, tired, and focused on basic survival.
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Newspeak
The official simplified language of Oceania
Machines made it possible to produce enough goods for everyone. Why is this a problem for the ruling class?
It removes their power and control, making society too equal.
According to the Book, how do war and rationing work together to protect the ruling class?
War destroys extra materials, and rationing limits what remains, keeping scarcity and preserving the hierarchy.
How does war prevent the masses from gaining leisure or education?
It destroys resources that could improve living conditions.
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Ownlife
Too much independence (a suspicious attitude)
Unperson
Someone erased from history and existence