The government reformulates history, takes out the inconsistencies. The very need for the existence of the concept acknowledges that failure, since from the trajectories traced through the material city there emerge spatial codes that challenges both forms of discursive control as well as a reformulated history” (Phillips). Doublethink can only be thought of as an imperfect system of thought control most at risk by the conjunction of materially anchored memory. “The Party tacitly acknowledges the limitation of its control of the material and by implication the circulation of stories and memories by the implementation of both Doublethink and Newspeak. So it implements Doublethink and Newspeak as tools to negate the urge to question the legitimacy of the Party’s history. The Party knows that memories will lead to questions, and then to critical thought.
By manipulating history and giving no opportunity for inquiry the government dehumanizes the people even more by destroying free thought. This manipulation of media allows oppression to go unnoticed because the citizens are unable to think critically. By deceiving the people, the Party is able to maintain support, and therefore power. Society is left with nothing to question, and nothing to analyze. Through omitting the negative, the people are only informed of the positive. Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards” (Orwell 33). As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies - more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity. “The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen. The people are robbed of an opportunity to criticize the Party, adding to their overall dehumanization. News propaganda is omitted of negative statistics and through this omission nothing is left to report but positive statistics. Citizens are only exposed to propaganda glorifying the Party. Through only allowing exposure to their propaganda the Party is able to control the minds of its citizens. But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were, in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less” (Orwell 7). The people of Oceania are unable to think critically, for example, about public figures. People are unable to form their own opinions and therefore must rely on the media to do so for them. To broadcast their dehumanizing propaganda, the government in 1984 manipulates the media and exposure to it. By manipulating language the Party replaces individual feeling with Party propaganda. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves” (Orwell 148). Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. “We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. This paralyzes the human ability to express feelings and emotions, which is exactly what the totalitarian government desires. In 1984 politicians consciously manipulate concepts and ideas. ’ (5) In 1984 he reveals even sharper anxieties about the term: Here not only has the ideal of equality as understood by the best political thinkers been totally abandoned, but the actual word itself has been reduced by ‘Newspeak’ to mean no more than ‘identical’” (Kearney). “In ‘Politics and the English Language’ (1946) Orwell lists ‘equality’ as one of those ‘words used in variable meanings, in most cases more or less dishonestly.