During those 158 years, it was at war almost non-stop, its troops ever ready, combat-trained, and modernly equipped both in their hardware and software. [2/]
Rather, the communist elite embraces capitalism for two reasons: First and foremost, because it understands this capitalism creates the fantastic wealth that feeds its political power and finances its supremacy over rival communist super-powers. [12/]
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Second, because it has to deal with a populace that for the moment is still armed physically (with guns) and mentally (with common sense) against the onslaught of its ideology. But not for long. [13/]
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Between a constant push for arms confiscation, and an education system and mass media that have been almost completely conquered by the communists, it is only a matter of time before totalitarianism is achieved here as there. [14/]
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The population has already lost the mental structures and means of organization to actively push back; it cannot fight the inevitable, only delay it through inertia, its only, passive, defense. "Conservativism is progressivism driving the speed limit" —
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Once this internal resistance is finally vanquished, the only limit to how totalitarian Oceania can be will be the outer pressure: allowing just enough freedom to produce wealth so that it can afford to stay on top of the Eternal War with Eurasia and/or Eastasia. [16/]
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And considering how little freedom Eurasia and Eastasia are doing with, that's a pretty low bar that we should expect Oceania to emulate. [17/17]
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