Sanity is Not Statistical

Well, while this section was very informative it was my least section to read through. I had to take several breaks throughout. I was reading a book within a book. First section that I looked into is called WAR IS PEACE. Next chapter: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

There were so many details about who is at war with each other (Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia) and how they got there. While I appreciated some of the clarity, I still found a lot of it dull. The tone for this book within a book was clearly very serious. The purpose was informative. We find out that each country’s (is that what you would call something this large?) goal is to take over the entire world and to abolish thinking. Two very hard things to accomplish, if you asked me.

I am more than a little bit confused when you mention that building consumer goods is necessary for war, but that these goods mustn’t reach the population. Why would you need to build something only to throw it away in the ocean or desert? This doesn’t add up.

However, I did like that you through in Julia’s reaction to the book: completely uninterested. It added to the fact that she probably doesn’t want to be apart of the Brotherhood and is only going along with it for Winston. She needs to read the book before she is considered apart of the Brotherhood and she tells Winston to read it out loud as she doses off to sleep or to summarize it to her later. Sounds very true to her character.

The section left me with an interesting phrase coming from Winston as he dosed off the sleep: Sanity is not statistical. What an interesting observation!

Happy Easter!