Matt Rules Everything

The title has nothing to do with this post, but Matt told me to do it, peer pressure can get the best of you. Now I'm posting this blog to talk about how the society in 1984 was taken over by the Party. In my last post kind of touched on this subject but not in detail. After reading up to the point I am in the book I still cant imagine how the people fell to a government like this. I mentioned peer pressure in the beginning of this post for a few reasons. One of the reasons was because of Matt and his need to have me put him in my title. The other was that I feel that i can link peer pressure to 1984. I still don't know why or how they were taken over but I think it might have involved peer pressure. I say this because when the Party took over maybe a group of people wanted this new government. From there on out they probably convinced everyone that it was good and the better way of life. If your friends want to go to a certain place and you don't but everyone else does, you're most likely going to go to that place. In this case it probably wasn't a bad form of peer pressure but it was peer pressure none the less. Do you think that this could've been the type of situation also?