Journal #3

Chapters 5-7

     I'm not really sure why Big Brother wants to turn all these people into, basically pawns. What good do they do him, honestly? If he keeps them all dumb and happy, I mean I guess they're not going to start a rebellion or an uproar. I just don't really get why he would want to rule a bunch on ignorant people, it honestly seems like an inconvenience to me. I mean they are sucking up all these resources and not really giving any in return. It makes e think that either Big Brother has some childhood issues -- like his parents wouldn't let him have a dog and now he has people as his pets -- or more practically he has a craving for power, and if keeping the people dumb keeps him in power then let it be so.
     It just really fascinates me that in the book Big Brother really did not take over power that long ago, and he already has the whole country right under his thumb. I know they did a great purging of the people, to get rid of any that might question his methods, but even the people that were left just submitted to his absurd way of life. They probably didn't have much of a choice, but it seems like it really did not take much for Big Brother to take over society as they knew it. It actually kind of worries me in a way, what if this really happened? I would like to think I wouldn't become a brainwashed imbecile, but I really don't know what would happen. I think that Big Brother would have had to make the people trust him, before he could start brainwashing them. I don't believe that a person who doesn't trust you could be manipulated as easy. I mean some people can be, but I would like to think I would not be one. He would have had to come into power in a reasonable way, because I don't think this could be possible if he didn't. But who knows, the history on that was probably rewritten and changed multiple times anyways. Nothing of the old world exists in this book and to me it makes it kind of unnerving.