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Okay, so I'm sure that back in high school, somebody forced you to read 1984 by George Orwell.

You may not remember it that well. But one of the key components of 1984 is this idea that the party, right, the entire book is about the communist party in Russia, but obviously it's disguised as

sometime in the future, in the West. In 1984, one of the, one of the key components of the party

is the attempt to rewrite history and rewrite reality. It is a key component, right? All

dissenting views must be quashed,

and history must be rewritten. There's a part where one character is explaining to another

character exactly what the party does in order to rewrite reality in the minds of its constituents.

And this character says, do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has it been

actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the revolution. And the years before the revolution, every record has been destroyed or falsified. Every book has been rewritten. Every picture has been repainted. Every statue and street and building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right. I know, of course, the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains.

The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human

being shares my memories. So in other words, the constant rewriting of history is necessary in order

for perpetual revolution to continue. Because, of course, if people remember the past,

if people remember that not all the principles being espoused by the party in

1984 are right or are actually in concert with reality or history, then it presents a threat to the

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