Everything is thought - everything is done - all is said. Thinking differently is to be crazy. Being crazy is a danger to the society of confinement. We must therefore either be imprisoned (variants: concentration camps, gulags, prisons etc.) or be re-educated (Nazi rehabilitations, Marxists etc.) ...
The madman can be repaired; thus expresses the magnanimity of confinement society (cf. sickly deviant of Marxist self-criticism).
Thinking differently is start criticizing the imposed language, this Newspeak (word created by Orwell) who claimed the destruction of the ancient language (the "Oldspeak"). Education, packaging, reflex, lives defined: in this country, abandon all hope.
To feed the reflection of the reader totalitarian systems, I recommend (not exhaustive) "In the Penal Colony" Kafka, "The Gulag Archipelago" Solzhenitsyn and "If This Is a Man" by Primo Levy.
The "soft" versions from 1984 are manifold today:
- Stereotypes communications, media expression conventions imposed rather questionable (see "The new watchdogs" by Serge Halimi)
- The focus on the poor education "people" (instead of citizens) to warrant does not expect the voting power (for example, the "no" in the referendum on TCE).
"1984" is a masterpiece of a-temporal healthy reflection on freedom.
