Orwell's idea of Utopia was "Democratic Socialism" which he described in 1984 as:

"a society in which all men shall be equal...a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed.... an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labour... where everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an airoplane..."

"As early as the beginning of the 20th century, human equality had become technically possible ...there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth... With the development of machine production, the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared... It was no longer necessary for human beings to live at different social or economic levels... If the machines were used properly toward that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations."

Orwell observed that:

"The machine WAS used for that purpose over a period of about fifty years at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, and it raised the living standards of the average human being very greatly."

"But", as Orwell goes on to say, it was clear to the "High" that:

"An all-round increase in wealth meant the destruction of a hierarchical society... for if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society - with the High, the Middle and the Low - was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."

Therefore "the earthly paradise was discredited at exactly the moment when it became realized".

And what emerged was "Big Brother", or One World Government, under which the three super-states existed - "Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia", aka America, Europe and Asia or the United States, Russia & China. They all adopted the same systems wherein "the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same...all the main currents of political thought were totalitarian".

Their rulers would stay in power forever by keeping their masses down and governing with "hierarchy and regimentation...with the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality...made possible, finally, by the power to keep their citizens under constant surveillance".

All the best,
Jackie Jura

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