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Party members are allowed to move up. Although proles do not usually 
move up into the Party, the Party always stops itself from becoming 
stupid or weak. 
The Party has also made attack from the outside impossible. There are 
now only three great countries in the world. They are always at war but 
none of them can win or even wishes to win these wars. Following the 
idea of 'doublethink' the mind of the Party, which controls us all, both 
knows and does not know the aim of these wars. The aim is to use 
everything that a country produces without making its people richer. If 
people became richer, there would be an end to the world of the High, the 
Middle and the Low. The Low and the Middle would not wish to stay in 
their places and would not need to. 
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The Middle and Low are kept in their places by their belief in the 
wars that none of the three countries can win. So the Party has to end 
independent thought and make people believe everything they are told. 
The Party must know what every person is thinking, so they never want 
to end the war. War continues, always and for ever. 
People are given somewhere to live, something to wear and something 
to eat. That is all they need and they must never want more. They are 
given work, but only the Thought Police do their work really well. 
All good things in the world of Oceania today, all knowledge, all 
happiness, come from Big Brother. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He 
is a face on posters, a voice on the telescreen. We can be sure that he will 
never die. Big Brother is the way the Party shows itself to the people. 
Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, which is now six million 
people, less than 2% of the population of Oceania. Below the Inner