“It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you — something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it….The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
~ George Orwell, 1984
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