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I'm wondering what Panzer's thoughts on Orwell's 1984 using relatively simplistic writing to express complex themes. Do you consider it political science fiction as a lot of people do, or more of a psychological examination of the human mind, more specifically it's theory about humanity having a mass mental illness where-in becoming part of "The Party" is akin to becoming a cell in a vast organism, even if the individual dies, as you are now just a cell in a greater mass entity, you can still live on forever, thus you attain becoming a God, by becoming part of The Party...thus power for it's own sake is a means of man to become God, through any capricious, brutal or nihilistic means what so ever. I support this with the scenes where O'Brien asserts that the party can warp reality it's self "I could rise off the floor and float away like soap bubbles if I wanted to" (and at various instances of reality distortion of history with the use of 'memory holes') and his statement {I'm paraphrasing now} "We could ratchet up the extremity of things to the point where men would be senile at the age of 30, It wouldn't matter as long as the party lives on forever."?

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