1984
George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Nazi Germany, and Stalin ruled Russia can all be related to Walker Percy's essay, The Loss of the Creature. In the book 1984 the world is run by a brainwashing committee called the Party. In Brave New World everybody is conditioned, from the time they are artificially conceived, to perform specific tasks and believe specific ideas. Nazi Germany was run by Adolf Hitler who took control of Germany with brainwashing propaganda, with some specifically trained on the youth of Germany (Heyes pg 17). Stalin also used propaganda to brainwash, or at least terrify people into cooperating with him (encarta.com). In Percy's essay he speaks of a planner and a consumer; the planner being the one radiating the ideas and the consumer being the one to either accept or reject those ideas based on what they choose to believe. The Party, Big Brother, or whomever the government leader is, could be considered the planner, while the people of the ruled nation would be considered the consumer. In the cases of these four governments almost every person always accepted and never rejected whatever ideas or facts the leader put forth because they had been brainwashed either since the leader came to power
The Party is the peoples' planner and it literally plans everything for them as is done in Germany, Russia, and BNW. There was a point when he asked an old man to explain what the past had been like, "He would go into the pub, he would scrape acquaintance with that old man and question him: "Tell me about your life when you were a boy. Bernard, however, didn't always believe what he was taught; "Ex-colleague. It was enough to blow the Party to atoms," (Orwell, 67). has grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness. The Hitler Youth was not sovereign because their ideas were not their own, so according to Percy they can't be sovereign. The leaders in BNW knew that happiness came at a price the citizen's would have to unknowingly pay "But that's the price we have to pay for stability. But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.
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