Re: Chapter 9 - The Mathematics of a dream

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:49:19 +0000, FriarTuck wrote:

In this chapter it becomes apparent why war is so necessary to the
oligarchy as noted by Orwell in 1984, Everhard makes the point that if
production is valued at $4 million and workers receive $2 million in wages
(more than they actually do receive...) then they can only buy half of the
production, and there is no-one else to buy the remainder of the
production... i.e. $2 million of product that cant be sold...

logical result (which london didn't seem to see, but which orwell did...)
create a war that uses produced goods (arms and ammo) as fast as they can
be produced....

and the bishop in chapter 12 is surely the model for the broken Winston
Smith of 1984 after torture sitting in the cafe.

.

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