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== [[Fridge Horror]] ==
* Fridge horror abounds when you read back the passages that Winston reads from Theory and Practices of Oligarchical Collectivism with the knowledge that O'Brien collaborated with other Party intellectuals in writing it; whilst it mostly dispenses with the Party lies and doublethink and tells the truth about the perpetual war, there is nothing in it that actually CRITICISES the Party at all.
* Try as you might, you can't find a way for the side of "Truth" to defeat The Party in ''[[Nineteen Eighty
** Think about the very concept of The Party itself. It is an all-seeing, all-knowing, incomprehensible entity that can essentially bend the reality of those it controls. Any naysayers or free thinkers? It WILL find them, it WILL [[Mind Rape|rape their very souls]] and WILL bend them to its will. It likely will never die, and could likely claim that it had been around since the dawn of eternity. Sounds more like an [[Eldritch Abomination]] than a government.
*** Of course. ''[[Nineteen Eighty
*** Humanity creates its own 'cosmic horror'. The punchline to ''1984'' is that [[Humans Are Cthulhu]].
** If memory serves, though, didn't they specifically say that the system only works if the three Parties are always in constant war with one another? Isn't the end of the book elating for the main character because his Party has finally won the war? What happens when a government like this one collapses in on itself?
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== [[Fridge Logic]] ==
* One particularly famous example: Oceania is dominated by the Americas, with the British Isles being little more than a convenient [[Airstrip One]] for attacking Eurasia. So why would the Oceanians base their whole society on "Ingsoc" - English Socialism?
** This of course leads to all sorts of [[Nineteen Eighty
** Maybe it has a different name in every country of Oceania? "Libertysoc" in the US, "Neomateship" in Australia, "Modern Bolivarianism" in South America, etc.
** Or it could be a reference to the Anglosphere (considering that the full implementation of Newspeak will eliminate the concept of Ingsoc--the name itself implies a definition in comparison to something else--we can expect generic references to 'the Party' to prevail over time).
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