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- From: "Pilar O. Chaplen" <clearly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2007 20:08:13 GMT
the smallest deviation of opinion on the most
unimportant subject can be tolerated.
A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought
Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone.
Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in
bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is
being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his
relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of
his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the
characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not
only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any
change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom
of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of
choice in any direction whatever. On the other hand his actions are not
regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour. In Oceania
there is no law. Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain
death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests,
tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment
for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-
out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
A Party member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the
right instincts. Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are
never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the
contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. If he is a person naturally orthodox (in
Newspeak a goodthinker), he will in all circumstances know, without taking
thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion. But in any case
an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself
.
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