All three superstates refuse to invade eachothers lands because assimilation would destroy the racism of their people that is inherent to supporting war, unspoken agreement

The world is in a perpetual state of world to keep those in power in power, as it keeps rations low and people willing to depend on their government and blindly believe nationalism

Vocab sentence: Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions

Proles (I think) have a double purpose of making outer party members feel better off in comparison while also instilling hope into traitors to make them easier to weed out 

The state of war is to lock the world in it’s current hierarchy so the high don’t lose their place of power, effectively stopping the cycle that had been noted of the middle constantly overthrowing and replacing the high. This is why the middle in 1984 are so heavily subdued and watched by the thought police rather than the proles because they are who the high fear will overthrow them

When world peace became possible, it put fear into the higher classes of losing their positions?

1984 is highly warning against the dangers of technology and it’s surveillance, a frighteningly accurate prediction for today

Vocab sentence:it had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, socialism must follow; and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.

 There is no need to improve technology thanks to the on going state of fake war thus there is no need to raise education for the proles, also since every superstate is self sustaining and doesnt need to compete with foreign economies for improvement

Vocab sentence: “The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary

The rewriting of the past is so the party avoids admitting mistake and appears perfect, so as to not arouse doubt in its members

The cliffhanger the goldstein book is left on in answering the question of why human equality hasnt been achieved is done deliberately by george orwell to point out how there is no logical answer to the question, it had to be skipped over, as george orwell believes human equality in real life can be achieved. Its question that is still being pondered in real life

He understood how but he did not understood why callback pg 179

Sanity is not statistical - meaning, being in the majority does not make you sane

I dont think winston truly understood goldsteins book because it clearly stated that the proles were the lows, who historically have never overturned the highs, yet winston still feels that hope lies in the proles. Is he stupid?

Passing on the secret doctrine that two plus two makes 4 pg 182 - rejecting doublethink and trusting in your senses for objectivity and truth

How small, thought winston pg 184

Solar plexus pg 184