Pestgedrag op nieuwsgroepen

method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of
the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of
Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can
in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful
arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. The fields are
cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery. But in
matters of vital importance -- meaning, in effect, war and police espionage
-- the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. The
two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to
extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There
are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One
is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking,
and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few
seconds without giving warn