“The consequences of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
This is a quote from Goldsteins book. He is describing how the governments of the superstates use war as a means to control the masses. War does not have a concrete purpose, it is not fighting for survival. War is only used for control. Orwell wrote this book in 1949, soon after World War Two. His descriptions of war in the novel are likely influenced by his point of view on war, and how the second world war killed millions of people, and resulted nothing much less than the destruction of a large part of the world.
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