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Take your pick............ (Original Post) riversedge Wednesday OP
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About rewriting history, let's ask George Orwell. usonian Wednesday #5
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usonian

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5. About rewriting history, let's ask George Orwell.
Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:37 AM
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From Emmanuel Goldstein – The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism (in Orwell's 1984)

The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.

But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party. It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right.


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ICE is the enforcement arm of "Oligarchical Collectivism". It must be stopped or we live in "1984"
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