Although I understand and agree with what people are pointing to here, it's too easy to get carried away with the "welcome to 1984" fatalism. Life does not have

Although I understand and agree with what people are pointing to here, it's too easy to get carried away with the "welcome to 1984" fatalism. Life does not have a "last page", like in a book. In a story, the last page lasts forever, but in the real world it does not. In the real world we get to see things get really bad, and then we see them get better, then bad again, ad infinitum. When people have nothing left to loose, that's where real change happens.