Quote Originally Posted by truedatt View Post
I must disagree with you there the entire country is desensitised to violence. With the exicutions and such they accualy seem to enjoy the violence. Id like you to show me an example of how he hasnt been desensitised scence I'm pretty sure that this was a main goal of the party. Desensitisation allows people to follow blindly without questioning the morals of the parties actions.

P.S. I have the strong feeling that I'm going to get massacured on this lol
Nah, you could even be right.

I'm looking at it through 2008 eyes, where the entire society is desensitised to violence by the constant stream of horrific crime and war stories in electronic media.

In Oceania, those stories don't exist and aside from the executions, I don't think people would see much in the way of actual violence - there wouldn't be any in society. In some parts of the world, nearly everyone owns a gun, in Oceania, nobody owns one.

You could be quite right that executions were designed to be the desensitising agent, but it seems somewhat counter-productive to doublethink. I can't quite tie in why desensitising people to violence would benefit the Party.