"George Orwell once wrote that, "It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or Eastasia but to keep the very structure of society intact.""
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The quote is almost identical to a block of narration in the 1984 Richard Burton/John Hurt movie version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The sentences are assembled from widely separated parts of Goldstein's book within the novel with some paraphrasing.
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