Questions about 1984

Q: Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

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He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this. Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with balks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger path and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses?

This setting was disturbing to me because people in the book don't even remember what everything looked like and they don't care. The Party that is "caring" for them makes a main city all in covered in debris and falling apart. If the future is like that and everyone is brainwashed to the extent of not recognizing devastation that is the worst thing that can happen to man. What's the point of living like that? At the rate the current world is going on about fighting and unifying the situation in 1984 can be possible. We can't just say that its just a book and ignore it. We need to consider it and try to prevent it from happening. Just like the extinction of animals. Many people used to say that it is impossible to wipe out a whole species but in just a few years we wiped out not one but many species. Nobody looked out for it and prevented it until extinction actually happened. So thats why this passaged stood out to me and made me concerned about the whole idea on totalism.