1984
Doublethink.
Oxymoron.
the cooxistence of 2 antagonistic and totally opposite ideas.
it permeates every aspect of our lives. Recall that few in US having problems with a war-making apparatus names "the Department of Defence". Nominal free press has to present "balanced and unbiased" arguments. Everyday we are subject to official amnesia, outright lying from the ruling class. Sometimes we believe, sometimes we doubt. But most of the time, we believe and doubt at the same time, embodying the doublethink mentality. We know that this world is full of sufferings, yet we hope otherwise. We know that we are engaging in the highest degree of monotony in life, and a lot of us are unhappy with what we are engineered to do everyday. yet we do not dare to do otherwise. you must not be a rebel here. and that is not only from the political aspect. rebellous acts would only bring chagrins and unhappiness to family and friends. Yes. you must be a doctor, says mummy. and yes, admit it or not, you are a cell in this entire organism of nation. you need to perform your function, if not apoptosis (or self-phagocytosis?) would happen. a nation only needs the functional beings just as an organism only requires living and functional cells. Yes of cuz every cell has its uniqueness and identity, but its extent may not be great. After all, all the cells are coded by the same sequence of DNA in the organism. Though thinking of individuals might be different, how great would the difference be, considering that all the cells are engineered and nurtured in the same incubator, taking in the same nutrients.
but. you are happy, ain't you, my friend? you are supposed to be, after all
There is a photo, taken around 1946, showing George Orwell with his adopted son. The little boy, around two that time, was beaming, with unguarded delight. That boy, Richard Blair, was born 1944, the same year as the protagonist of 1984. It is not difficult to guess that Orwell, in 1984, was imagining a future for his son's generation, a world he was not so much wishing upon than as warning against. He wanted to make a change to his prophecy. It is the boy's smile, direct and radient, proceeding out of an unhesitating faith that the world, at the end of the day, is good, and that human decency can always be taken for granted - a faith so honourable that we can almost imagine Orwell, and perhaps even ourselves, for a moment anyway, swearing to do whatever must be done to keep it from ever being betrayed
Oxymoron.
the cooxistence of 2 antagonistic and totally opposite ideas.
it permeates every aspect of our lives. Recall that few in US having problems with a war-making apparatus names "the Department of Defence". Nominal free press has to present "balanced and unbiased" arguments. Everyday we are subject to official amnesia, outright lying from the ruling class. Sometimes we believe, sometimes we doubt. But most of the time, we believe and doubt at the same time, embodying the doublethink mentality. We know that this world is full of sufferings, yet we hope otherwise. We know that we are engaging in the highest degree of monotony in life, and a lot of us are unhappy with what we are engineered to do everyday. yet we do not dare to do otherwise. you must not be a rebel here. and that is not only from the political aspect. rebellous acts would only bring chagrins and unhappiness to family and friends. Yes. you must be a doctor, says mummy. and yes, admit it or not, you are a cell in this entire organism of nation. you need to perform your function, if not apoptosis (or self-phagocytosis?) would happen. a nation only needs the functional beings just as an organism only requires living and functional cells. Yes of cuz every cell has its uniqueness and identity, but its extent may not be great. After all, all the cells are coded by the same sequence of DNA in the organism. Though thinking of individuals might be different, how great would the difference be, considering that all the cells are engineered and nurtured in the same incubator, taking in the same nutrients.
but. you are happy, ain't you, my friend? you are supposed to be, after all
There is a photo, taken around 1946, showing George Orwell with his adopted son. The little boy, around two that time, was beaming, with unguarded delight. That boy, Richard Blair, was born 1944, the same year as the protagonist of 1984. It is not difficult to guess that Orwell, in 1984, was imagining a future for his son's generation, a world he was not so much wishing upon than as warning against. He wanted to make a change to his prophecy. It is the boy's smile, direct and radient, proceeding out of an unhesitating faith that the world, at the end of the day, is good, and that human decency can always be taken for granted - a faith so honourable that we can almost imagine Orwell, and perhaps even ourselves, for a moment anyway, swearing to do whatever must be done to keep it from ever being betrayed
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