Ryohei Tada round 2 Flashcards
Totalitarianism
A political system where the state seeks total control over all aspects of life.
Ideological Orthodoxy
Strict adherence to Party ideology, enforced through cultural and psychological control.
Historical Revisionism
Altering historical records to fit the Party’s narrative and erase the true past.
Psychological Manipulation
Using fear, surveillance, and propaganda to control thoughts and emotions.
False Consciousness
Ignorance of one’s oppression, particularly among the proles, who fail to recognize their exploitation.
Linguistic Determinism
The idea that language shapes and limits human thought, central to Newspeak’s purpose.
Cognitive Dissonance
Mental discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs, suppressed by practicing Doublethink.
Perpetual War
Endless war used to unify citizens, consume resources, and justify the Party’s control.
Panopticism
The internalization of surveillance, leading individuals to regulate their own behavior.
State-Sanctioned Reality
Truth is defined by the Party rather than by objective facts or evidence.
Semantic Inversion
Reversing the meanings of words (e.g., ‘Freedom is Slavery’) to confuse and control minds.
Political Nihilism
The rejection of traditional morality or principles, with the Party using power for its own sake.
Epistemological Control
Control over knowledge and how it is understood or accepted as truth.
Bureaucratic Dehumanization
Reducing people to roles or numbers within an impersonal state structure.
Cultural Hegemony
The ruling class’s dominance over societal values, making their ideology seem natural.
Anachronism
Deliberate falsification of time and history to serve the Party’s needs.
Authoritarian Paternalism
The state claims to protect people while exercising absolute control over them.
Moral Relativism
The Party redefines morality based on what benefits its control.
Collective Amnesia
Enforced forgetting of the past, making it easier for the Party to rewrite truth.
Instrumental Language
Language used purely to manipulate and control, not to express or question.
Ontological Insecurity
A destabilized sense of reality caused by constant manipulation of facts.
Total Surveillance
Complete monitoring of citizens’ lives by the Party through technology and informants.
State Reeducation
The use of torture and indoctrination to reform nonconforming individuals.
Post-Truth Politics
A society where truth is irrelevant, and political narratives override facts.
