Excerpts from the chats of Winston and Bernard:
Bernard: u gotta check out the latest touch screen i got.. Its got web anywhere.. useful to keep checks on the stocks on my way to the office..
Winston: I got that one last year.
Bernard: ya?? thought it hadn't released there..
Winston: oh no. Been having it since the first day it came out, works wonders on my election campaign.
Bernard:don't really care 'bout those here..
Winston:well we need to make sure no dumbbell accidentally screws up. Don't have your luxury of peace.
Bernard:'course.. but then u guys do have other luxuries.. equality does deflate your ego all round.. and u guys do have way cheaper manpower..
Winston:Don't tell me you cant afford it. I hear people higher up have to use all the loopholes every year or they get demoted.
Bernard:We ain't that obvious.. besides we snatch power for the same reason as u guys.. marginally better life than the others.. tho yours is way better..
Winston: Way better than the bulk I agree. But we do have a level for the more "gifted".
Bernard:I still don't get your idea.. inequality among people will piss them off..
Winston:All humans are equal. But you know some are more equal. You must reward talent. That keeps the better ones subdued. The not so talented are like the water that flows in rivers.
Bernard:clean??
Winston:Of no consequence without direction and force.
Bernard:i still say telling people equality rocks.. gives u full right to use philanthropy to cut down any misfit..
Winston:I would still call them revolutionaries not misfits. I was one too.
Bernard:besides i get to always make the rules for everyone..
Winston:We choose when to break them.
Bernard:that's true.. :(
Winston:But you of course have a lesser chance of a "misfit".
Bernard:neither do u.. u always have a few perpetual villains.. known evil is better than the guerrillas.
Winston:But that is at the risk of being one every once in a while.
Bernard:even better.. u have a shape-shifting enemy.. we are still at risk.. invisibility is not invulnerability..
Winston:The media certainly helps us out on the "support the leader front".
Bernard:How ironic. We actually lay out all our cards in the media while you keep the ace in the hidden pocket.
Winston:Not everything should be let out. As for the media, we dust their back, they dust ours.
Bernard:Yes the right information in the right manner would be devastating for both of us. We drown it in a sea of irrelevance, you keep it hidden.
Winston:We also keep the proles busy. When you have to battle each day, you are not going to be searching for holes which are not supposed to be there.
Bernard:We keep everyone busy with enough distractions. There is always something cool to buy, and something cool to watch or do.
Winston:None of them realize there are things way better off than what we show them.
Bernard:Maybe they are not. Everyone's ideal world is not the same.We do have people coming from your land and living here for "the better life"
Winston:We have people coming back and others who settle down here as well.
Bernard:My point exactly. Things may actually be at their best now. We do offer 2 versions of the promised heaven. It may not be perfect but it is the best compromise.
Winston:Or maybe we market hell as heaven and we are just really much better salesmen than statesmen.
Bernard:Oh you want to talk about hell, we at least provide some sort of quality in life. There is Galt's land which oppresses, harvests and and shows us all there is a heaven there.
Winston:I think they are better statesmen than salesmen.
Bernard:Because the rest of us all know that living conditions suck there while they project the opposite?
Winston:Because they keep their people from breaking the shackles despite them being able to see our lives, despite us being able to influence them, despite the people knowing they may not be happy.
Bernard:So they are on earth while we've created the heavens on earth.
Winston:You could say that. now I feel good about what I am doing.
Bernard:OK signing off here. I got a few things to do.
Winston:Ya reminds me, I still have my election to work for. See you later.
