Despite all those setbacks, the US military keeps growing and looking healthier than ever, its leaders never suffering ill consequences from the disasters they bring about. [5/]
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" — @MichaelMalice [15/]
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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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