The easiest way to do this is through ignorance, which provides a person with the ability to accept anything the Party wants them to believe. This allows them to be a model citizen, and in this world, that is a strength. 1984's Continuing Relevance In today’s world ...
Jerry H. Robbins is Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Georgia State University, Atlanta. He is a member of Omicron Gamma, and he was President of Kappa Delta Pi during the 1982–84 biennium.doi:10.1080/00228958.1984.10517161Robbins...
Ignorance is strength encourages members to rely on the strength of the party because they cannot possibly know as much. Why is war is peace a true statement in 1984? In 1984, the reason why war is peace is that the Party finds unity in the hatred of another enemy. Through creating ...
It is this ignorance that maintains the power of the government and the seeming coherence of the the society. It is only through ignorance that people can find the strength to live in a totalitarian society where the government oppresses them even while communicating to them how fortunate they a...
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of faith, strength, energy, will, sympathy, justice, imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson ...
“WARISPEACEFREEDOMISSLAVERYIGNORANCEISSTRENGTH” pg. 6 Those three lines are part of the Party’s slogan and they are repeated various times throughout the story. At first glance they are hard to understand as each word seems to be the opposite of the other. If you look into it more the...
"The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel."- H. L. Mencken ...
(1975–76, 1983–2010). I also had the privilege of handpicking my successor, Henrik Urdal. Under his steady hand the journal has continued to go from strength to strength (Urdal et al. 2014). Over the years, I have written various shorter pieces about the use of referees (Gleditsch ...
A Happy Marriage:"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Inns and Outs:"Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." ...
and until this time comes the only State that can assert its rights is the State that is strong enough to protect itself. But this strength – thisultima ratio– lies in an armed force, and its extent depends on the measure of security that each State enjoys – or otherwise on possible ...