Well, it takes time, but steady does it. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwell-s-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984.html http://www.thedailyb

Well, it takes time, but steady does it. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwell-s-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwe... > Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible. Remember when Saddam Hussein was a great guy when he was at war with Iran and gassed some people on the side, but then later was not such a great guy because he "used gas against his own people"? Or how Saudi-Arabia and the US funded Al-Quaeda, and the US bombed the Middle East to bits, where now IS flourishes, which is such a big problem that obviously, now Syria has to be regime-changed as well, to make it better? How people are so concerned about murder and terrorism they can't even fathom the idea of one's own war criminals being arrested and tried? How Obama got a peace nobel prize, then continued with his surveillance / kill lists drone stuff, which is made terribly cute with a mic drop? How stuff constantly gets advertised as being "new" or having "more X"? Slavery is freedom, just like drinking Coca-Cola ist being popular and good at sports. More advertising follows such patterns than not. And of course, there's plenty of telescreens and microphones to go around. You never know if anyone is watching or listening, but you know they always could, just like in the book. We live in a world where people claim "privacy is dead, get over it" and don't even blush.