Murat Yancy
@muratyancy
Pamukkale Üniversitesi
İzmir
21 okur puanı
Aralık 2020 tarihinde katıldı
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own selfconfidence and willingness to govern.
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The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.
There then rose schools of thinkers who interpreted history as a cyclical process and claimed to show that inequality was the unalterable law of human life.
The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
In Newspeak there is no word for ‘Science’. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed tothe most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty.