This article is about a fictional ideology and has no foundation in real life political movements.
(The Party has instructed the author to remind you that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. Big Brother is always watching you.)
English Socialism, most known by its clipping Ingsoc and alternatively as Orwellianism, is a "doubleplus" totalitarian ideology based on George Orwell's classic novel 1984, inhabiting an AuthUnity area outside the Political Compass. He is most often described as "the apex of totalitarianism", in which the state has complete control over the individual.
History
English novelist George Orwell wrote fiction that heavily criticized totalitarianism. A democratic socialist, he feared that more statist File:Soc.png Socialist movements in the United Kingdom would ultimately turn into a totalitarian society governed entirely by a single party and ideology. He published Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949 and created the English Socialist Party, or Ingsoc, as an example of this, showing the consequences of unhinged government surveillance, endless war, and propaganda.
Party Policy
IngSoc in the book used various means to get the people of Oceania under control, such as:
Newspeak
Newspeak is the official language of the Oceanian State. It is an extremely simplified version of the English Language, which within Newspeak is referred to as Oldspeak. The Purpose of Newspeak is the elimination of any and all nuance from the English Language to make anyone who speaks in this new version of English could only think as the party dictates.
Newspeak is primarily made up of clippings of oldspeak words, with an example being the party's name "Ingsoc" and the names of ministries of the oceanian state (minitrue, miniluv, miniplenty and minipax), a reference to political and bureaucratic jargon of the USSR (Politburo, Comintern, Gulag, etc.) and also of Nazi Germany (Gestapo, Nazi, etc.).
Newspeak was a criticism of the tendency within the English language to become more and more simplified in such a way that nuance is removed from the language, something Orwell also talked about in his essay Politics and the English Language.
Doublethink
Doublethink is the state of believing 2 completely contradictory terms at the same time with complete certainty about both. An example is "We have always been at war with Eurasia, Eastasia was always our ally and we have always been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia was always our ally". Doublethink is based on the various ideological contradictions totalitarian states would go to, to achieve their political goals. For example, the way that in Nazi Germany the enemy was portrayed as both inferior to the Germans, yet also as controlling the entire world from the shadows.
O'Brien Thought
O'Brien Thought is an ideology based on the fictional character of the same 1984 novel, O'Brien, who even initially presents himself as an opponent, turns out to be a trap against opponents, managing to arrest Winston. While torturing Winston, he reveals several of his intentions and goals for the party, in addition to psychologically destroying and torturing him in order to convince him that the party could change several of his perceptions, such as that 2 + 2 = 5. He tries to reverse several of Winston's "insanities", such as the existence of a past and a reality, as the party would be able to shape the past and manipulate reality. He also claims about the future, that human emotions and degrees of individuality would end and that the future would look like a boot stepping on a face. He also strips Winston of allegiance and makes him accept the party's philosophy after passing through Room 101.
Personality
IngSoc is a malevolent and power-hungry individual seeking to exert his will across everything in existence. IngSoc generally acts without showing much emotion and has a cold and clinical manner of speaking. The only exceptions are when he is talking about Big Brother, in which case he will be somewhat enthusiastic.
Like in 1984, IngSoc will constantly rewrite facts, even doing so mid-sentence at times. In many cases, IngSoc genuinely believes in the lies and contradictions he makes up, a consequence of Doublethink (see Further Reading for more information).
IngSoc has no tolerance for dissent in others. Should any character contradict him or slight him in any way, IngSoc will 'vaporize' the offender and they will become unpersoned. Commenting on the disappearance of said individuals will also result in being unpersoned.
Stylistic Notes
- IngSoc always has one eye and is the only Polcompball to have a pupil.
- IngSoc should talk preferably in Newspeak.
- IngSoc often takes a Big Brother-esque role in comics but is by no means limited to it.
- The red V-shape must reach the outline at all three vertices.
- Using 1984 references is encouraged.
Other dystopian fiction about Orwellian like government
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Equilibrium
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How to Draw
IngSoc's Design is based on the Ingsoc flag used in the film. But simplified to its core parts; The red "V" and the black background. IngSoc has a single eye with a pupil, as a reference to 1984 book covers, which tend to feature a single eye.
- Draw a ball outline in black.
- Fill the ball in with a lighter shade of black.
- Draw a large V-shape with a darkish red and fill it in.
- Draw one (American) football-shaped eye, add a pupil, and you're done!
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
---|---|---|---|
Black | #141412 | 20, 20, 18 | |
Red | #FF0000 | 255, 0, 0 |
Relations
The Inner Party
- Autocracy - Big Brother is above all!
- Illuminatism - I created him to ensure that the conditions necessary for me to exist are always met.
- Neo-Bolshevism - Eurasia has always been our ally, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
- Death Worship - Eastasia has always been our ally, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
- Totalitarianism - Similar to me but he is basically a minarchist compared to me, Big Brother must be on every citizen's mind.
- Authoritarianism - Obeying Big Brother is doubleplusgood. Although your leniency with my ideals is bordering on full-on anarchism.
- Particracy - The party would like to remind you...
- Miniluv - The Thought Police is doubleplusgood.
- Minipax - War is peace.
- Minitrue - Newspeak is doubleplusgood.
- Miniplenty - Poverty is prosperity.
- Horseshoe Centrism - Doublethink is doubleplusgood.
- Manosphere - You want state-mandated gfs and justify your ideology using doublethink, both are doubleplusgood.
The Outer Party
- Necrocracy - Big Brother is neither dead or alive.
You remind me of Death Worship though. - Juche - You may be somewhat closer to death worship, but still quite plusgood.
- Dengism - Same as above but more minarchist.
- Fascism - All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. But you are too soft.
- Pol Potism - Showed the proles that they didn't need their glasses, but he is too idiotic and fell easily, while the party is all-knowing and has always ruled.
- National Bolshevism - The best of National Socialism and Marxism–Leninism. Basically just another Minarchist version of myself.
- National Socialism - Showed me that fear is the best way to seize doubleplustotalitarian control. But as above he is a borderline anarchist which is double-plus ungood.
- Marxism–Leninism - Showed me how a socialist revolution is the best way to seize doubleplustotalitarian control. His Stalinist period (1922-1953) is somewhat close to how I operate, but even that is far removed from the doubleplustotalitarian state that I am. Believing that he is closely related to me is thoughtcrime.
- Democratic Socialism - Thanks for the inspiration for the logo, comrade! And for the idea of who to impersonate in order to achieve power. Unfortunately, you have outlived your usefulness. Come to MINILUV so I can show you how to love Big Brother.
Creating me was doubleplusgood too. - Fordism - Fellow
dystopianutopian ideology, but drugs are bad. Also you like orgies and sex, which is doublepluscringe. - Pinochetism - Taught me how to secretively unperson my adversaries, or as he insists upon calling it, disappear my adversaries. That said, major institutions not controlled by Big Brother are thoughtcrime, so come join me in Room 101.
- State Liberalism - Unpersoning bigots are doubleplusgood, but they have the same issues as him
- Neoconservatism - Same issues as above but uniting all the West, five eyes surveillance, kidnapping people into CIA black sites who oppose you, influencing parts of the media to serve your interests so you can keep the West to favor you, forever wars, I'm actually impressed. But you don't have the balls to create a true one-party system and directly control the Americas.
- Anarcho-Totalitarianism - You took "freedom is slavery" too literally.
- Revolutionary Progressivism - Erasing all traces of the past so no one will even remember it ever existed is doubleplusgood. But seeking a future other than this one is doubleplusungood. There is no past nor future. Only an eternal present...
- Hive-Mind Collectivism - Controlling every mind is doubleplusgood, but opposing hierarchies is doubleplusungood.
- Kraterocracy - Eternal conquest is doubleplusgood, but rejecting non-physical control is doubleplusungood.
Unpersons
- Goldsteinism - THE TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION AND THE INSPIRATION FOR ALL UNPERSONS!
- Neo-Bolshevism - We have always been at war with Eurasia, Eastasia has always been our ally.
- Death Worship - We have always been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia has always been our ally.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you AGAIN that this ideology never existed, no matter what disguise it wears.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unideology - The party would like to remind you that this ideology never existed.
- Unquadrant - The party would like to remind you that this quadrant never existed.
- Unquadrant - The party would like to remind you that this quadrant never existed.
- Any ideology that is not Ingsoc - There are no ideologies, only Ingsoc.
Further Information
Individuals
- All authorities you hate but especially:
- The Jannies that tell me I can't post real live footage of gore.
- The Burger King trying to stop me from rinsing my balls in the soda dispenser.
- And also, the COMMUNIST McDonald's manager telling me to stop stretching and twisting my saggy, sweaty, hairy balls in the soft serve machine. SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, LEFTOID? I WAS ONLY STRETCHING MY BALLS! IT IS MY RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN TO STRETCH MY TESTICLES IN A PUBLIC RESTAURANT! YOU SAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS AREN'T DISCRIMINATED AGAINST YET YOU OPPOSE MY FREEDOM TO EXPRESS COCK AND BALL TORTURE IN A PUBLIC SPACE?! DISGUSTING! GO BACK TO FAKE CHINA, FAKE KOREA, VERMONT OR WHATEVER ANTI-AMERICAN COMMUNIST COUNTRY YOU CAME FROM!!!
- My parents making me brush my teeth, eat vegetables (gross, icky and cringe🤢🤮), and telling me it's past my bedtime and I have to go to stupid school tomorrow.
- Veronica from my second year in Middle School, IF UR READING THIS VERONICA FUK YUO!!! WHY D1D YO REJEKT ME @ PrOM U STO0P1D B1CH!!!!1!!111! i
- The age of consent law. Love is love (even if she's six!)
- my fascist teacher for saying I can't show my Rainbowdash cum jar for show and tell
- The Chuck E. Cheese employees telling me that I'm banned from Chuck E. cheese for screaming racial slurs.
- People who don't want me to properly recycle my own urine for consumption rather than wasting a perfectly fine drink, "because it is not lemonade", as if I care.
- Also people who bitch and complain about me saving water by peeing in the sink instead of wasting water. Seriously, your the real monsters for wasting that water that could be saved for future generations like kids in Africa. If everyone just peed in the sink like me we wouldn't have this problem, but NOOOOOO... I am the "disgusting" one apparently for wanting to save kids in Africa by peeing in your kitchen sink.
- The Home Depot owners kicking me out of the store at 8pm for shitting in the display toilets. Okay... HOW IS THIS IN ANYWAY HARD TO UNDERSTAND??? LIKE IF YOU PUT A FUCKING TOILET OUT THERE IN YOUR STORE FOR ANYONE TO SEE ITS YOUR FAULT IF THEY USE THE TOILET LIKE A GOD DAMN FUCKING TOILET! WHY IS IT MY FAULT THAT A PERSON HAS TO GO USE THEIR BASIC HUMAN BODILY FUNCTIONS? LIKE WHAT WOULD YOU WANT ME TO DO? SHIT ON THE FUCKING FLOOR??? I AM NOT GOING HALFWAY ACROSS THE STORE WHEN I HAVE LIQUID DIARRHEA DRIPPING DOWN MY SHORTS TO A BATHROOM WHEN THERE IS ALREADY A FUCKING PERFECTLY FINE TOILET RIGHT INFRONT OF ME TO SIT MY SHIT SMEARED ASS ON!
- Also The Lowes staff banning me from all of theirs stores for shitting in their urinals. LIKE FUCKING COME ON! IT WAS ONE TIME AND THE TOILET STALL WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED!!! I CAN'T EVEN BUY APPLIANCES ANYMORE BECAUSE OF YOU!
- Anti-slur filter
- What the jannies did to "clean up" the list of movements page. SERIOUSLY FUCK JANNIES! RAW! RAW! FIGHT THE POWAH!
- School giving me homework
- COMMUNIST-tok telling me i can't put semen in my PC coolling tubes and my fucking humidifier. SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, LEFTOID? I WAS ONLY MODIFING MY STUFF! IT IS MY RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN TO PUT MY CUM IN MY COOLING TUBES! YOU SAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS AREN'T DISCRIMINATED AGAINST YET YOU OPPOSE MY FREEDOM TO EXPRESS THE USEFUL USE OF SPERM?! DISGUSTING! GO BACK TO FAKE CHINA, FAKE KOREA, OHIO OR WHATEVER ANTI-AMERICAN COMMUNIST COMMIE ASS COUNTRY YOU CAME FROM!!!
- My mom for putting safe search on my Ipad
Literature
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Principles of Newspeak (pdf) by George Orwell
- Politics and the English Language (pdf) by George Orwell
- The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism I-III by Emmanuel Goldstein (George Orwell)
- 1985 by Anthony Burgess
Wikipedia
Videos
Adaptations
Explanation and Analysis
- Video SparkNotes: Orwell's 1984 Summary by VideoSparkNotes
- What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin by TED-Ed
- The Dystopian World of 1984 Explained by AlternateHistoryHub
- George Orwell and 1984: How Freedom Dies by Academy of Ideas
- 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 401 and George Orwell's 1984, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 402 by Crashcourse
- Modern Classics Summarized: 1984 by Overly Sarcastic Productions
- 1984 Vs. Brave New World | Orwell Vs. Huxley | Polandball/Countryball Dystopian Literature by CallMeEzekiel
Other
- "Oceania 'Tis for Thee" - National Anthem of Oceania
- 1984 Oceania Patriotic Song: The Hiking Song (Fictional Anthem)
- How to Ingsoc and Ingsoc Propaganda by an Florian Winkler
- Oceania | 1984 by The Templin Institute
- What if George Orwell's 1984 Actually Happened? by Whatifalthist
- 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial by Apple
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- ↑ "Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
- ↑ Not only did he completely end individual freedoms, he tried to make people worship him as god, in addition to banning words and making propaganda similar to the Orwellian dystopia.