There is a well known saying. "All it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing." It's something like that and I'm sure I will have many people thinking it was worded slightly different. But I just read something else in 1984 that really got me.. Winston is trying to reconcile with this gut feeling inside of him that something is just not right.. things can't be the way they've been portrayed, but there is no proof. The history has been meticulously erased, rewritten and smoothed over, so that every statistic given by the ones in power has backed up "proof" of being completely correct and even people who fight against the government are wiped from existence so thoroughly that a husband will forget his wife after a time and will even wonder if he merely imagined her, she is so permanently removed from every form except the memory of the individual.
I cannot iterate enough that this book needs to be read.. There are so many applications even though the horror of Big Brother never(?) came to be..
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