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‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father- to -son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.
When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not ex-ternal. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relin-quishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.
What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
