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Efficient use of such technology to control the populace requires centralisation, and the four ministries of Oceania – the Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty – fill this need. [10] Oligarchical collectivism: The Oceanian social-class pyramid in the year 1984. The Proles usually are not subject to propaganda.
An example of a social trap is the use of vehicles and the resulting pollution. Viewed individually, vehicles are an adaptive technology that have revolutionized transportation and greatly improved quality of life. But their current widespread use produces high levels of pollution, directly from their energy source or over their lifespan.
For example, ideas on solving a data science problem (as in Kaggle) or getting a good design for a T-shirt (as in Threadless) or in getting answers to simple problems that only humans can do well (as in Amazon's Mechanical Turk). The objective is to gather the ideas and devise some selection criteria to choose the best ideas.
The tragedy of the commons is the concept that, if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a pasture, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether.
Racial collectivism is a form of social organization based on race or ethnic lines as opposed to other factors such as political or class affiliated collectivism. Examples of societies that have attempted to, historically had, or still have a racial collectivist structure, at least in part, include Nazism and Nazi Germany, racial segregation in ...
Oligarchical collectivism was a fictionalized conceptualization of bureaucratic collectivism, where Big Brother and the Inner Party form the nucleus of a hierarchical organization of society professing itself as "English socialism" because of its revolutionary origins, but afterwards only concerned with total domination by the Party.
Collectivist anarchism, [1] also called anarchist collectivism [2] and anarcho-collectivism, [3] is an anarchist school of thought that advocates the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production.
"The recent discovery of a copy in French of this book, bearing the date 1944, in Belgium, seems to have proved them right. For it bears the title Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism , and its edition is dated 1944, that is to say a few short years before George Orwell began to write on paper the first lines of 1984 .