00 Burt

Remember in Orwell’s 1984 when, in the middle of Hate Week, Oceania suddenly switches its enemy? One minute, everyone is raging against Eurasia, screaming and waving banners, certain that they have always been at war with them. Then, mid-speech, the Party changes the narrative—Eurasia is now an ally, and the real enemy has always been Eastasia. Without hesitation, the crowd accepts it. They tear down posters, burn old banners, and rewrite their own memories as if the past they had believed in just moments before never existed. The Party doesn’t just change history; it erases the very idea that history was ever different. And the people go along with it because to question it—to remember the truth—would be thoughtcrime. "Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed." We're there.