Then terrorists attacked Paris, killing 129 innocents. Even Wikipedia described them as "refugees". News articles from all the mainstream news outlets agreed, such as The Washington Post, the Atlantic, Time magazine, the UN/VOA, Vanity Fair, the Huffington Post, Nobody disputed that description. Last November, the Tsarnaev brothers (the "Boston Bombers") were "refugees". To the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in The chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that Pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs-all had to be rectified at
Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, A large part of the political literature of five years was nowĬompletely obsolete. Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war withĮastasia. This change meant work for Winston in the Ministry of Truth: Those holding banners denouncing their enemy were suddenly embarrassed to discover they had unaccountably written the wrong name, and quickly trampled and destroyed them. In a particularly rousing speech against their enemy, the speaker was handed a slip of paper, and in mid-sentence, without pause, without change in content or tone, he changed the name of the enemy he was speaking against to Eastasia. On the sixth day of Hate Week, as crowds gathered to denounce Eurasia, the Party switched enemies to Eastasia. Then Ocean's allegiance switched back again. Which is more true, what everyone knows and what's in the newspapers, or the memories within his head? Winston Smith struggles with philosophical idea of "truth". However, Winston Smith (the protagonist) remembers a time five years ago when Oceania was instead at war with Eastasia. That's the political consensus, and all historic documents agree. They have always been at war with Eurasia. Wikipedia articles and news stories change subtly, "corrected" not because of factual errors, but because of political errors.Ĭonsider the example in the book 1984 regarding the ongoing war between the three superstates of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia (representing English, Russian, and Chinese empires respectively).Īt the start of the book, Oceania is at war with Eurasia. I point this out because the rise of online journalism has meant the rise of editing old articles to conform to changing political realities - just like in 1984, but done willfully, without government mandate. The people themselves participate, willfully, in "double think". Orwell's point in 1984 was that it's more than just government Though Police.
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