1984: My thougt about and some quotes from this awesome read

K so... I love reading the blogs of others but I never feel I have anything to blog about. I decided I would start blogging by just typing out the notes I've written from a few books I've read.

Here's some of the quotes and things I found intersting in 1984

1) How the phrasing of things especially speeches are meant to decrease our ability to think for ourselves i.e. asking a question while giving a speech and then answering it.

2) How lack of pressence of mind was used a tool of the system. While sharpness of mind was punished. "Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent and he speaks too plainly. The party does not like such people"

3) How gullible I become when a statistic is mentioned.

4)"Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled, they can not become conscious" deep right?

5)"Being without general ideas, they could only focus on petty specific greviences. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice" This trips me out because I can see how our society is very much this way. Each time someone in power says something that could possibly be construed as offensive, the media harps on it for days. Meanwhile, there are much larger issues in this world that seem to be completely ignored.

6)"The object of waging war is to be in a better position to wage another war" Yep

7)" If human equality is to be forever averted-If the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permenantly- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity"

And in addition to the politically relevant, wake your privilaged 22 year old tail up and pay attention to what the media is feeding you and to what freedoms are being stripped from you style quotes, there were quotes that made me say "awwww". Here they are...

8) "At the sight of the words 'I love you', the desire to stay alive had welled up in him. The taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid" So freakin cute!

9)"It had never before occured to him that the body of a woman of fifty blown up to monstrous dimensions by child bearing then hardened, roughened by work til it was course in the grain like an over ripe turnip could be beautiful...That's her style of beauty" I love it when men see the beauty in a woman that has birthed some children, laundered some clothes, brought home and then cooked some bacon, and most of all, lived some life.