Brilliance

One thing that was mentioned during Socratic Seminar by Jeremy was that although the thought of Big Brother watching us and the development of Newspeak and the Though Police was uncomfortable, the idea in itself is completely brilliant. The lengths that the Party has gone through in order to limit freedom of speech and freedom of thought is masterfully done. This isn't to say that I agree with it at all, but the mere idea of corrupting the English language by deleting bits and pieces of our vocabulary in order to limit our thoughts is something kind of genius.

Let's face it. The United States is probably one of the most lenient countries to ever exist. It is even stated as the very first amendment: the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of the press, etc. But there is a time and place for everything. You can't simply protest whenever and wherever you want. But given this right, we are given the power to protest by certain guidelines and say what is needed to be said.

In the eyes of Big Brother, simply having a contradicting opinion is an example of thoughtcrime. But as the years go on as a Party Member, as more children are being conditioned at a young age to be faithful to Big Brother, thoughtcrime will simply cease to exist because there are no words to explain it. One of the reasons that Winston was capable of having mixed feelings was because he was there before the war occurred. He was able to experience the changes that happened. He knew which pieces of history were manipulated and changed simply because he lived the truth. The children that were after the Party was established only know the Party, which is why Julia did not rebel against the Party for the pure fact that she knew what was right; she rebelled simply because she liked to be a rebel.

The course of history has been constantly changed, merely for the fact that Big Brother must always be deemed all-powerful and all-knowing. The vocabulary is being shortened just so people can no longer find the words to describe things. At a young age, children are being taught to manipulate their parents, something we can compare to the Nazis in Germany around WWII. As terrible as something like this exists in fiction, it's all seemingly genius.