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1984, Brainwashing, Do those around you know the truth?, Citizen Wells open thread, July 15, 2010

1984, Brainwashing, Do those around you know the truth? “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed –if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” “We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. MenRead More