and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'.
This feels similar to the awareness gen z has about the media. A generation that grew up with the internet, and most of who have no concept of life before it, are able to identify propaganda and pandering almost as a means of protection and self preservation; a need to distinguish their reality from a facet of life that influences it so heavily.
