I need some help on this question, as well as a quote that may concern the question. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
This can be answered in one word: POWER. Maybe another will work too: CONTROL.
It seems as if the three states have similar goals in controlling their people and the need for government is derived from the need to be kept safe from the other peoples. Although stated purposes might be using up the supplies produced by the peoples, the truth is this constancy of war gives people a nationalism and a need for those that lead them. The fact that the people don't understand WHY they are at war doesn't matter, what matters is their allegiance.
The three superstates must have chosen this path because history, true history, not the created one they alter daily, has demonstrated that governments ultimately get soft and lose power. Oceania obviously didn't want this to happen.
