The Party
wages a ceaseless campaign to control the minds of its citizens. People quickly learn to
self-censor any unorthodox ideas so as not to be arrested and
accused of "thought crimes."
The Party is also working on its
Newspeak dictionaries, which are meant, aslearns, to reduce the
English language to a minimum number of simple words. This helps greatly with mind control
because it reduces the citizens' capacity to formulate unorthodox thoughts.
The Party also uses surveillance to control thought.
People know they are being spied on all the time, and for that reason it is best not to think in
an unsanctioned way and risk showing, through a facial expression or a muttered word, that one
is out of alignment with the Party's ideology.
Memory
holes are everywhere, so if citizens find writing that does not conform to Party
rules, they can quickly send it down a hole to be burned in a furnace. This encourages people to
"forget" what is no longer considered the official truth.
Constant
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