The Normality of Mind Control Mind control is more common then many people think. Take Television, forinstance. Most people won't admit that commercials and TV shows influence them, butof course they do. People buy cars, peanut butter, and soda because of the advertisingthey see in newspapers adds, magazines, and billboards. Many people don't realize thatthe information they receive is chosen by someone else. Someone else controls howmuch information you get about this political scandal and that new cleaning product. The novel 1984 by George Orwell deals with government corruption and mind control. In this novel, it is the "party" that decides what the population of Oceanea believes. Byreading this novel, people are more likely to question their government or higher powerand not assume that they are always in the right. The "party" of the novel 1984 can becompared to many mind controlling aspects of the modern world. The novel 1984 is about a society that is built into three different classes ofpeople: the inner party members, the outer party members, and the probes. The innerparty members control the information the other classes receive and live in luxury whilethe rest of the population lives a miserable life. This society is built on the idea that aconstant war will create a lower living standard and therefore leave more food, money,and comforts for the inner party members to hoard. The inner party of Oceanea has so much power of the minds of the people thatthey are able to convince them that their memories are false. The inner party isconstantly changing documents and changing history to their need as of the moment. One day they are at war with one country, and another day they are at war with anothercountry, and that is the way it has always been. This may leave readers to wonder howmuch of the history they have been taught is truly what happened. The United Statesgovernment has most definitely left out information o...
