Nothing Was A Good War Or Bad Peace By Benjamin Franklin

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Our World Without War... Ever Heard of That “There never was a good war, or bad peace.” by Benjamin Franklin. This quote tell us that war never used for a good cause. Even if one side wins both sides have lost military and militia. It is not a win win situtuion here but what's more important is we continuously war or proclaim we do. We use war to conquer land, get resources and even to get rid of threatening people or groups. In 1984, Emmanuel Goldstein’s book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, continuous war is a tactic to keep the hierarchical society between the high, middle and low class. Since the creation of machinery, it would get rid of prolonged and extensive work that Low class civilians do. This work …show more content…

The Unites States of America has been in continuous with its rivals for many pros and cons just like in 1984. The sole reason for this book is a great to way to compare our world to what was written in 1984. Now we have war on terror which was created to stop terrorism from opposing countries. The dystopian novel can easily be familiarized with our current world today. Many countries like to use propaganda for people to agree with government decisions. Propaganda is everywhere from newspapers to social media. People do get insight from these types of news and will take them into account. In 1984 Hate Week was used for these sole reasons. It was a way to create tension for either Eastasia or Eurasia. In the book,” On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of …show more content…

Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."(Orwell 34) After that fact time pass the whole situation changes. Later on “2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces — at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.” (Orwell 180). We can infer from this that the allies shifted and changed up . Trump for example was an ally with Australia. “The US-Australian alliance dates back to the height of World War II, when Australian Prime Minister John Curtin announced a major shift in foreign policy.” The 2 nations must have kept a close alliance if it dates back in