User blog comment:Mmandator/Dystopia/@comment-9884526-20120219075850

Frankly I would prefer living in 1984. I say this because a state like Oceania is frankly brittle and unrealistic- a state that focused on monitoring, oppressing and torturing its own people (and inefficiently running everything else) is bound to have some weakpoints. Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia have also stopped the clock on technological development on everything but surveillance and torture methods, and Goldstein's book (which despite likely being written by the Party) explains that they're stuck in a time warp (LET'S DO THE TIME WARP) around the 1940s-mid 1950s, which means that they probably run on inefficient power sources like coal or gas that will inevitably run out. Bear in mind that they're bombarding each other with rockets that use huge amounts of fuel (Winston mentions more than a dozen falling on Airstrip One weekly IIRC) and the clock ticks down further. Don't forget stuff like natural disasters happening, and given how bombed out London is for example, the Party's response is going to be crappy. This may (key word being may) lead to extreme difficulties for maintaining control (bloody as it will be.)

More to come tomorrow. I have to go to bed.