Yet another '1984' post. Just finished reading it again

I read the book once in my teens, it flew over my head.
I re-read it these days (i'm in my mid thirties), and it made such a huge difference, and I finally understood why it's such a looked up-to book, especially it being written in late 40's.

To me, the whole build up till the moment Winston was caught, was like watching a movie.
It didn't get too personal, nor didn't I have gotten to emotionally involved with the storyline.

But things changed when the final "battle of arguments" between Winston and O'Brien began.
It was clear that Winston was a dead man walking, so I didn't hope for a miraculous win on his side. Nor did I expect that, miraculously, the Party would fall somehow during his time at Ministry of Love, and Winston would just be forsaken.

To me, the win of the book would have been if Winston would win at least one argument against O'Brien, and sow a seed of doubt in O'Brien's mind his (party's) operating system, framework, and that he (O'brien) would show it somehow to the narrator (a flinch of face muscle, pause in his speech, whatever etc.).

And clearly O'Brien was intellectually superior to Winston, and rank-wise, and wealth-wise, and what not. But Winston could have just been inspired enough to confront O'Brien with this argument, which I think checkmates all Party's operating system:

EXERTING CONTROL OVER ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE, REQUIRES CONSTANT EFFORT. ANY REDUCTION IN EFFORT, WOULD JUST REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CONTROL AND GIVE IN TO CHAOS. SINCE CHAOS IS THE DEFAULT/NATURAL STATE OF THE UNIVERSE. IT FOLLOWS, THAT THE PARTY CANNOT (by definition) LAST FOR EVER.

Plainly, it is like trying to apply effort to keep an upright posture (keep your back straight young Sir), you just slouch at some point in time, since the natural tendency is to do that.

O'Brien conveniently tells Winston that he is to stupid to tackle such subject as metaphysics, so it's not worth going into that argument. Winston just rolls with it.
I was furious, since any plain argument of the nature of our planet in the whole universe, and how everything goes to chaos if you just let control a tiny bit, would normally sow that seed in O'Brien's heart/mind.

Yes, O'Brien would counter that planet is center of universe bla bla and all that non-sense, but he personally would know. To me O'Brien's mind shift is the only win that we could have taken from this book.

But, alas, the author didn't give us that.

Anyway, that's my rant. Had to put it out there somewhere. Thank you, have a great year ahead!