![]() ![]() And news items, or any expression of opinion at all, which conflicts with the Party are never allowed to remain on record. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct. ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ Day by day and almost minute by minute the past is brought up to date. His job is to re-write history, in order for past statements to agree with the constantly changing current Party line The protagonist, Winston, works in a kind of shadow world at the Ministry of Truth (which is anything but truthful). ![]() BNW was readable, but I’m finding 1984 depressing and intriguing all at the same time. ![]() ![]() I wanted to see both sides of the same coin. As the world sinks closer and closer into a global dictatorship before our very eyes, I decided to read both Brave New World and 1984. ![]()
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