“Truth Is Hate. Plenty Is Hate. Peace Is Hate. Love Is Hate.” The text then explained that the names of the four big Ministries were decoys for the ignorant. Truth was not truth, love was not love—the Party had never embraced such weak delusions. It was not even true, as the Outer Party was led to believe, that these concepts lived in a dialectical, doublethink relationship to their opposites. Oh, it was certainly the case that peace was war, as anyone could see from history—the point was so well understood by Party members as to need no explanation. But this was still to valorize “peace,” to
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