The Correction of Museums is a Form of Censorship - the Tragedy of the Pitt Rivers

The most frightening thing in George Orwell���s ���Nineteen Eighty Four��� is not the torture or the naked terror. It is the obliteration of the past. This makes it impossible to know what life was once like, or to know if it has improved or grown worse.

So far, much of Orwell���s prophecy has yet to come about. There are no actual Thought Police, though there a lot of people who would fit well into such a body. The surveillance he describes is in its infancy here - though far advanced in China...