"Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness"(Orwell 53).
Following the rules, trusting in Big Brother, living day to day, are all eventually going to require no thought what so ever if Big Brother has his way. The less thought, the less questioning, the more automatic appropriate actions become, and the slimmer the margin of error. Being a perfect person in this society makes you not a person at all, it makes you a robot. Where the human shell once held emotions, there is now emptiness. The less thought, the less things like this will be missed, until one day all the people go about automatically, unconscious of there being any other way.
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