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Brainwashing is a prolonged psychological process designed to erase an individual's past beliefs and concepts in order to substitute those with new ones. One of the main features of 1984 was a deteriorated standard of living for the people, yet they were told to believe it was of the highest quality. By blocking out information from other regions of the world, the people believed their government. The citizenry were indoctrinated into believing a false reality where history was rewritten to corroborate the government’s lies; sex was solely for the purpose of conception, and the only thing one could love was “Big Brother”. The Party's way of dealing with subversive people was to make …show more content…

This leads regular citizenry to support the war effort, unaware of the truth: the other enemies may not even exist. Operation Northwoods (1962) was a proposed false flag operation aimed at creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government. A recent example are the famous weapons of mass destruction never found in Iraq.
Mass mind control: press and propaganda
Winston works editing and rewriting historical records to support the INGSOC causes. He has to alter facts, fabricate false information, print it as war propaganda and destroy the evidence of his tampering without questioning his job.
The Press exerts an enormous control over the flow of information in our society, but in cases such North Korea, the government propaganda select and modify the information presented to their people. As a result a totalitarian state, extreme censorship, racial pride, “military first” policy or devotion to the state are some of its consequences.
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