Comrade, I don't think you quite understand. There is no use in pretending it is about love. What makes you think hate is less self-sustaining than love? If you keep the hate constantly directed outwards, constantly directed at some enemy, both internal and external, an enemy which will never die. The stronger the power we have, the tighter the control becomes, the more we crush those enemies, the harder we stamp on that face. For there were always be a face to stamp on.
They will never hate us, because every instinct we instill in them, every fear and every love will be directed at the Party. They will not know how to do anything but love the Party and Big Brother and hate the agents of Goldstein and Eastasia. That is all they will know. They will not have the words to express such a hate for us, going back to the principle of Newspeak. They will find happiness in the successes of the Party, in the future of the Party, as being part of that collective. And they will hate everything else. If you remove all other attachment, if you entirely prevent that kind of human understanding, the only thing they will ever feel emotion for is the Party.
We are protecting our people too. They have to believe that, because in a society where nobody trusts anybody, the only thing you can trust is the collective. You cannot trust other individuals, you can only trust the Party. And that gives us power. That gives us the power to be loved and feared all at the same time - because they revere you for protecting them, but fear what you may do if they betray the collective, demonstrate unorthodoxy, put a thought out of place. They cannot turn the hatred on us and rob us for 'what they want' because what they want is what we have taught them to think they want.
You can use all those pretty duckspeaking words, comrade, but in the end. In the end, comrade, it all comes down to power. If you have the power to make history and memory what you want, if you have the power to tear minds to pieces and put them back together in shapes of your own choosing, you have true, utter, immortal power. Once you get people not just to think what you want them to think out of silent obedience, but out of devotion, then you have no need to make them love anything. They will love you. They will love Big Brother and the Party and will hate any enemies of theirs. Because that's all they know how to love and that's all they know how to hate.
...I have hideous parts of me like that too. O'Brien is disgusted with me.
They will never hate us, because every instinct we instill in them, every fear and every love will be directed at the Party. They will not know how to do anything but love the Party and Big Brother and hate the agents of Goldstein and Eastasia. That is all they will know. They will not have the words to express such a hate for us, going back to the principle of Newspeak. They will find happiness in the successes of the Party, in the future of the Party, as being part of that collective. And they will hate everything else. If you remove all other attachment, if you entirely prevent that kind of human understanding, the only thing they will ever feel emotion for is the Party.
We are protecting our people too. They have to believe that, because in a society where nobody trusts anybody, the only thing you can trust is the collective. You cannot trust other individuals, you can only trust the Party. And that gives us power. That gives us the power to be loved and feared all at the same time - because they revere you for protecting them, but fear what you may do if they betray the collective, demonstrate unorthodoxy, put a thought out of place. They cannot turn the hatred on us and rob us for 'what they want' because what they want is what we have taught them to think they want.
You can use all those pretty duckspeaking words, comrade, but in the end. In the end, comrade, it all comes down to power. If you have the power to make history and memory what you want, if you have the power to tear minds to pieces and put them back together in shapes of your own choosing, you have true, utter, immortal power. Once you get people not just to think what you want them to think out of silent obedience, but out of devotion, then you have no need to make them love anything. They will love you. They will love Big Brother and the Party and will hate any enemies of theirs. Because that's all they know how to love and that's all they know how to hate.