On November 18, 1978 cult leader Jim Jones and his followers died in a South American jungle called "Jonestown" in the British Guyana. The cult was founded in 1956 by Jim Jones and was called the peoples temple, it was a racially integrated church. Jones envisioned a communist community, everyone worked together for the common good. He moved the cult from California to the Guyana. The area was not big enough for all of his followers and many of them got sick. Everyone needed Jone's permission to leave his "utopia", and he didn't let them. U.S. representative went to Jonestown to see what was going on there. The next day the congressman announced he was going to take everyone back to the United States who wanted to leave Jamestown, because some were being held against their will. When the congressman left with the people, some were murdered and wounded before they got to the airport. Jone's ordered everyone to come together for a meeting, he had big kettles filled with grape Kool-Aid poisoned with cyanide and Valium. He ordered everyone to drink it and a total of 912 people died.
And oligarchical system is more dangerous than a dictator, because it's more than one person ruling the people. Under an oligarchical system like in Oceania is alot like my example of "Jonestown" because all of the people are brainwashed into thinking what the leader says is right. But like Winston and Julia they are not brainwashed like some of the people that wanted to leave "Jonestown". But in a way its different because it's only being ruled by one person and in Oceania, it's a whole goverement.
"The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the goverement of Oceania itself, 'just to keep the people frightened.'"-1984 (p127)
This is a way that the whole goverment brainwashed their citizens.
