Corey Bourquin
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Ignorance in the Theology of Oceania
A person whose mind is restricted and trained to believe one idea and one idea only can never truly be free. The idea that a controlled population is a free population is flawed. The very essence of freedom is knowledge. When a government puts regulations on free knowledge or restricts individuality, the government regulates development; intellectual as well a secular. In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is a man living in a dystopic reality with nothing but control all around. Winston quickly discovers that Big Brother will not tolerate free thought or free will. It is irrational to think that total control is for the good of everyone, and Orwell's 1984 warns of giving into that total control, whether to a government or other powerful group. 1984 uses the theme of orthodoxy that parallels to religious ideals of supreme beings, blind faith, and unwavering allegiance to warn of the dangers of the idea from the novel that "ignorance is strength."
By Corey Bourquin6 years ago in Futurism