[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I hated the book back then because I did not understand its relevance, or did not know tech development and social trends, considered the book to be exaggerated, and when that lack of understanding changed, I liked it more, seeing its visionary relevance.

I did not care for Islam back then and saw no evil in it back then, because I was not interested and again not educated on it. When that changed, I learned to not stand aside and realised how dangerous it really is.

My views do change over time sometimes. But usually not without good reason.

Does that clear it for you?

I refer to Transferred nationalism.

Transferred nationalism: In mid-sentence an orator changes the enemy of Oceania; the crowd instantly transfers their hatred to the new enemy. Transferred nationalism swiftly redirects emotions from one power unit to another (e.g., Communism, Pacifism, Colour Feeling and Class Feeling). This happened during a Party Rally against the original enemy Eurasia, when the orator suddenly switches enemy in midsentence, the crowd goes wild and destroys the posters that are now against their new friend (Eurasia) and many say that this must be the act of an agent of their new enemy (and former friend) Eastasia. Even though many of the crowd must have put up the posters before the rally, they now say that the enemy has always been Eastasia.

It's not just the state surveillence issues of today that echos 1984.