Continuing with Orwell's essay Goldstein's book.
In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, [...] But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society.
I feel like if you can get people to build temples and pyramids, you could make up a religion that manipulates people the way you want without (or at least with a lot less) endless war. Also, not sure about his claim that:
In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat
There were wars that lasted for literal hundreds of years. The current war has been going on for a few dozen years. That's peanuts.
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