1984 by George Orwell | Episode 1 |
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Doublethink - To Know and Not to Know
The past, though of its nature, alterable, ever had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed, then the lie passed into history and became truth. Reality control, they called it, in new speak. Doublethink. To be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies. He tried to remember in what gear he had first heard mention of Big Brother. The half-pleasant quality went out of his meditations. In the party histories, course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the revolution since
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