Ignorance Is Peace
The word “freedom” is being used by many people in various ways: sometimes to inspire, sometimes to fool and sometimes to rebel. George Orwell describes a model called “Double Thinking” (Help Notes) which states that when two contrary words are reminded to one simultaneously, they eventually accept both of them. In his novel 1984, the dictator party uses the phrase made up of contrary words “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell (Freedom Quotes) to make the people believe that there is no good in freedom, but ignorance and war will bring them peace and strength. And it works. They conquer the country through brainwashing the people that what they do is the best way. Even though I agree with Orwell that there
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Although there are not much “freedom wars” in the recent history, the word “freedom” has maintained its importance in the 2nd World War as well. During the second world war in labour camps, Germans used the slogan "Work sets you free. (Arbeit macht frei)" to give hope to Jews and make them work harder, even though there was no way that they would set the prisoners free and they were going to kill them. Apart from the cruelness of this quote’s purposes, I believe that it was a very clever act to use it. There was this little chance that people in all these camps would rebel against the government, but the slogan effaced the idea of rebellion in their minds, because there was a shorter, safer way to become free: working. It was also a chance for them to use people to do their works, before they kill them. But, let’s consider the quote itself for a while, does work sets us free in our daily lives? Although working gives us the ability to be financial independent and do whatever we want, I believe that it is a a hoop on fire. The more a person works, is the more s/he earns; the more s/he earns, is the more greedy s/he becomes and at the end of this process eventually turns into someone who has no social interaction or free time to do what really want but becomes the prisoner of her own
Although there are not much “freedom wars” in the recent history, the word “freedom” has maintained its importance in the 2nd World War as well. During the second world war in labour camps, Germans used the slogan "Work sets you free. (Arbeit macht frei)" to give hope to Jews and make them work harder, even though there was no way that they would set the prisoners free and they were going to kill them. Apart from the cruelness of this quote’s purposes, I believe that it was a very clever act to use it. There was this little chance that people in all these camps would rebel against the government, but the slogan effaced the idea of rebellion in their minds, because there was a shorter, safer way to become free: working. It was also a chance for them to use people to do their works, before they kill them. But, let’s consider the quote itself for a while, does work sets us free in our daily lives? Although working gives us the ability to be financial independent and do whatever we want, I believe that it is a a hoop on fire. The more a person works, is the more s/he earns; the more s/he earns, is the more greedy s/he becomes and at the end of this process eventually turns into someone who has no social interaction or free time to do what really want but becomes the prisoner of her own