User blog comment:Mmandator/Dystopia/@comment-9884526-20120219075850/@comment-4872047-20120227190512

that all depends, the party could just be making up the war with eastasia and eurasia. for all the reader knows, oceania is the only inhabbited area left, not to mention seeing as how the party members are very secretive, they could have made huge leaps in energy resources. what the public/reader knows about what is happening in 1984 is only "the tip of the iceberg" so to speak. the funny thing is, the public (minus winston and his girlfriend, i forgot her name) actually believes the lies spoutted by the party. an example is that of the whole boots and shoe laces surplus, the party said that they created tens-of-thousands of more boots than what was needed but on the next page, winston describes people walking around bare-foot with holes in their socks because they still had no boots, i could go on but im already getting out of hand lol. these two books are amazing reads