War, Freedom, Ignorance, Peace, Slavery, Strength

War, Freedom, Ignorance, Peace, Slavery, Strength

Oceania.  The place I live.  I’ve been told to tell you what our society believes in.  We are a people that follow the rules of the ministries.  There are four ministries; the ministry of love, truth, peace, and plenty.  On the glimmering white concrete on the building for the ministry of truth, the words “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” are hung. 

War is Peace.  By achieving peace, we must first go to war.  Oceania believes that bringing war to our society will eventually bring peace.  If you let war linger on our doorstep, it will stay there until we do something about it.  If we fight it right away, we can win our peace.  By acting on it right away, we don’t have to have the thought of it hanging over our heads for a long time.  Having peace means to have war.  There is no way to bypass war if you want peace.

Freedom is Slavery.  Everyone wants to have the most freedom possible.  Oceania grants everyone with no law to abide by.  But to have no laws means that the populous is enslaved to the government being able to do whatever they want.  We are slaves to our society and we must obey whatever they say to do.  We also have no choice.  We must ration everything that we have and be very careful with what we think.  To be able to have no rules or laws limits us and in other words enslaves us.

Ignorance is Strength.  Having the least knowledge and to not be informed makes for the most strength.  When people have little on their mind, they thrive.  When people have much to do on their mind, it makes them weak.  The least knowledge you know, the safer you shall be.  The thought police are watching our every move and if we know too much, it is too late.  If we think the wrong thing, or something bad, they will know.  I never really thought about what would happen, but don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to think too much… 

And there you have it.  To recap, to be at war means to be at peach.  If we let war stand at our doors, it will stay there until they either do something or we do something about it right away.  We have no rules, which allows us freedom to things, which also enslaves us to allowing the ministries to do whatever they want.  And lastly, to have ignorance is to be strong because the less a person knows, the better off they will be.  If the thought police catch one of us thinking something we shouldn’t be thinking of, we are done for. So I shall leave you on that note, oh, someone just knocked on my door.