"All the confessions that are uttered here are true. We make them true. And, above all, we do not allow the dead to rise up against us." page 254
This statement by O'Brien was probably the most disturbing statement in the whole book. It truly encompasses the power of the Party. They can make things true because no one has the strength or the desire to question them. In fact, most people are not even phased by the Party's lies. What the Party says is true, not because that actually happened but because no one is allowed to remember anything differently. The whole book seemed scary to me because of the concept of never being alone, even in one's own mind. The scarier thing, though, is that the past is alterable. If no one remembers the past, who can know for sure what happened? That seems absolutely terrible to me, like a recipe for disaster.
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