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@ Alchemike
2025-03-04 16:46:16
In George Orwell’s 1984 there is a scene which takes place in the middle of 'Hate Week' wherein Oceania suddenly changes its enemy from Eurasia to Eastasia.
One moment, everyone is raging against Eurasia, screaming and waving banners, certain that they have always been at war with them. Then, mid-speech, the Party changes the narrative - Eurasia is now an ally and the real enemy has always been Eastasia.
The crowd immediately accepts it. They tear down posters, burn old banners and rewrite their own memories as if the past they had believed in just moments before never existed.
The Party doesn’t just change history; it erases the very idea that history was ever different. The people go along with it because to question - to remember the truth - would be thoughtcrime.
"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs - all had to be rectified at lightning speed."
If we're not there, we're every close.
https://m.primal.net/PThE.mp4