Why

 This whole time I've been wondering why exactly this society was set up like this in the first place. Goldstein's book explains that the goal of everything in the system is to impose a permanent hierarchy that could never fall to revolution or anything of the sort. However Winston gets conveniently distracted from the book right when it's about to explain why this is even it's goal. It's interesting to think about why Big Brother / whoever founded these ideas would even choose this as the ultimate goal. It means that this person wasn't didn't just want to keep themselves in power, but aimed to keep someone in all future generations of the foreseeable future in power without having to face revolution. Even if these future generations weren't his own children, since the hierarchical system isn't wholly hereditary.  

But why? I would say he might be trying to stop violent revolutions from happening in the future, except for the fact that there's a useless continuous war going on. He can't just desire power for himself - there'd be much easier ways of just setting up a totalitarian government that would fall after his death. Is he in some way trying to form a utopia - as in does he believe that there has to be hierarchy for the world to run smoothly so he goes so far just to ascertain one for the future? That would track with the whole dystopias are utopias gone bad idea. But then why wouldn't he just let the cycle Goldstein described of hierarchy/revolution/hierarchy continue on? It would still fulfill this goal, and with shorter periods of conflict. Was he afraid of equality happening eventually? But if he thought that hierarchy was the only way to go, wouldn't equality by his own definition fail eventually? It feels like I'm going in circles - and I can't really think of a reason why that make complete sense, but maybe I'm missing something. Do you guys have any ideas?

Also another question I had while reading: why did the Thought Police wait so long to seize Winston and Julia. I mean they had a telescreen in the room they were spending time in, and apparently Mr.Charrington was a member of the Thought Police the whole time, so what was the point in waiting? It seems potentially dangerous - if for example Winston or Julia somehow spread their ideas or wrote them down somewhere. Except at the same time I guess the Party was pretty confident in their ability to pick up on anything they're doing so maybe not. The book might explain this later - that's just something I was wondering up to this point. 

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