Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell
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The quote goes on to assert that the only thing that matters in the eternal now is the Party and that nothing exists except for its version of history. While one can certainly point out that this is not true as the past has been documented and as we have historians who record history as it unfolds, the idea that history has stopped is a disturbing one.

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