True Freedom - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Winston turned suddenly. By this time he had made his face appear a serene and optimistic expression, which was best used when facing the telescreen.

When I see this, I think, sometimes the same is true of our current society, too many people have a mask in social places, and they switch this mask so naturally, so quickly, as if they have never had two faces. In "Nineteen Eighty-Four", this switch between different faces is even more tragic, in this world, really intelligent people need such two faces.

In Winston's diary, the brutal laughter of ordinary people while watching the video, which is an obese refugee who is attacked by an air raid somewhere in the Mediterranean while on a boat, falls into the water, his clumsy body floats in the water, and is later found by a helicopter, shot in countless guns, stained red water, and tragically died. This cruel laugh reminds me of what Mr. Lu Xun saw when he studied in Japan, which is a deep sadness.

A handsome, fierce-looking nine-year-old boy jumped out from behind the desk and pointed a toy automatic pistol at him, and next to him a sister, who was about two years younger than him, also pointed a wooden stick at him, both of them wearing blue shorts, gray shirts, and red scarves, which were the uniforms of the junior reconnaissance team. Winston raised his hand over his head, uneasy, for the boy's expression was fierce, as if it were not exactly a game.

In my impression, there is a particularly favorite playing game in childhood, that is, good people and bad people, who can choose good people are always proud and happy, and the bad people who are selected will also play with hips and hips, but the look on everyone's face, in the end, is a childlike laugh.

But here, the juvenile scout team is not a game, they let the child become a scout, to scout their closest relatives, to pick up guns and point them at others, to cruelly do things that should not be children and to earn honor. These children have also truly lost the innocence and kindness that children deserve.

Thought sin does not bring death. Thought sin itself is death.

It's an awe-inspiring phrase, and in this day and age, it's hard for me to imagine when thought will be sinful. This is an era of freedom of thought and expression. So I can't imagine that Orwell wrote such a sentence after witnessing what kind of things.

This sentence appeared many times in the novel later, and each time it made my heart very sad, and there was a feeling that my heart was stuffed with wet cotton, making people unable to exert themselves. No matter what era it is, the masses dare not say what they really think, and this must be a sad era.

Winston's work department, the Department of Records of the Ministry of Truth, the work to be done in this place is to constantly revise the past copywriting, all historical materials, novels, news, etc. Text information, they constantly revise, so that "history" conforms to the "present", their history is constantly being changed, never stable, naturally there is no truth, so when Winston writes the diary, it is ridiculous that he does not know the exact date of his diary, because they have long lost the concept of time.

Among those who are alive, who can give you a truthful account of the situation at the beginning of this century, if any, they can only be a proletarian..." Please tell me about your childhood. What were the days like then? Better than now, or worse than now? ”

This is a huge doubt about the world created by Big Brother, his thoughts can no longer support the contradiction between his memory and the actual cognition, he desperately needs someone to support him, or to overturn his ideas, he is constantly doubting What Big Brother said that "life is getting better and better", because the memory has been compared to reality but he can't believe it.

It can be said that among those who have no ability to understand, the Party has been most successful in instilling its worldview in them. The most obvious anti-reality things can make them believe, because they never understand how absurd the demands on them are, because they are not interested in the great things of society, they never pay attention to what is happening.