The Spirit of Man

O'Brien tortures Winston mercilessly until he rejects his faith in the spirit of man and embraces a faith in big brother. Weeeeeeee. I'm still hanging in there. Barely. In part because I haven't been directly tortured with a box of rats attached to my head like Winston. Although my Twitter addiction has created something pretty close to room 101 for me. But also because I think Orwell, like the democratic socialist true believer he was, got something fundamentally wrong about the spirit ofMan.