http://equalsfive.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] equalsfive.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] buywithme 2009-11-17 03:42 pm (UTC)

ohdear. o'brien might actually do a good thing and decide not to push breaking his orthodoxy.

It is the natural human response, when given everything, to want more. To take it, and you, for granted.

Old despotisms were founded on such a thing. The, ah, social contract, I believe it was called. We give you everything you need, you shut up and do what we tell you. A fair enough idea, but a weak one, in the end. It is not sustainable, because people realise that you are merely pretending to be good, it's all a cover for maintaining your power. For that's all the aim of any system is. We do not cover it up. We take more and more power quite blatantly and we do not give people the opportunity to realise it is 'ungood'. The more power we have, the more attractive we are, and the more feared we are. The closer we get to omnipotence, the less chance there is ever of there even being such an unorthodox thought.

But, comrade, I can see you are a goodthinker for your 'factory'. I'm very sure my Party loves me too, and has concern for me as part of the collective. I simply also understand the how as well as the rhetorical.

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