Rediscover Communication

animal farm shows that in most any government, the pigs will float to power eventually. It does a very good job of showing this through purely action. The animals actions, and their innocent confusion when the rules are changed by the upperclass..... 1984 gets much deeper then that.
1984 is more about the psychology of suppressing the masses. There is much to learn from this book.
Jeff said :" It seemed to be a book of really interesting and isolated cool ideas woven together by the sex."
Yes yes yes.... sex does weave everything together...
jeff i recommend some good sex for you, and then read it again.
Because the fact that they're having 'rampaging sex' is just a proof of the humanity that Big Brother had yet to squash.
What are Winston's other options? He was very attracted to her, they worked out a method, his government prescribed wife was a cold bitch, etc....
As soon as we start accepting that we don't deserve to seek fullfillment, or basic humanity, the Party has already won.
The book shows you how beautiful their relationship is, and then you understand the Party's level of cruelty by the end of the book.
As this nation continues to force black and white regulations on a world with grey and translucent aspects, one day you might not be allowed to think for yourself.
And that is the point when the gov controls both sides, the war and the uprising, and nothing ever changes.....

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"- Jefferson and Friends