Chapter 9 part 2

Winston and the members of the party had drudge work since, Oceania’s ally had changed from Eurasia to East Asia. They had to remove all printed evidence of the war of Eurasia. It all started when at a rally, the speaker is forced to change what he was saying in mid- sentence since his assent of Eurasia as an enemy was obsolete.  The posters that people had were going against East Asia (now ally of Oceania), which had to be blamed on Goldstein for sabotaging them. Its amusing how the totalitarianism system can manipulate people and make them believe something so palpable to not be true; they avert the most assumable evidence. I do believe that people do know that history is been changed by the party but they don't want to affirm it because they will be going against the party and ending up losing their life

This chapter was mostly about Winston reading the book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivis which was given by O’Briend. The chapter title’s were the party’s slogans WAR IS PEACE” and“IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.  In this book we get to know that there are three main superpowers that are very alike. The philosophies of those three powers are named different, in Oceanis is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia has a Russian name and in East Asia translates to death worship. Oceania covers America, South America, South of Africa,  Australia, and England. The second superpower is Eurasia which covers mostly Russia, and the third superpower is  East Asia which covers the orient such as  India, Japan, , and China. The book explains the brotherhood philosophy and the conspiracies theories about the war. Those three super power are always fighting among themselves, never to overthrow one another because they want to keep everything on balance. They are always at war, and not to conquer one another but to to “use up the products without raising a general standard of living”. In other words, they don't want to make their citizens wealthy and comfortable, they want to keep everybody oppressed, therefore, the three superpowers can just shift the power to themselves. That way they can preserve the power among the high class, and the middle class keeps fighting for freedom and fraternity and  the lower class ( proles) to always be impoverish.

The two main concern of the party with which the brotherhood does not agree are : how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking  and how to kill several hundred million of people in a second without giving warning. In this society there is no peace time because they always find a way to start war, and having new allies and new enemies.  At the end Goldstein explains that the party’s central tool is the control of history. After Julia and Winston been an hour in bed, Winston was reading the book to Julia, but she falls asleep and later he falls asleep too.