"Jim.Garrison" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kennedy John F)

the rights of individuals virtually had vanished. In order to

maintain this balance, the Ministry of Truth continually was

engaged in improving history to make it reflect govemment

pronouncements. This was justified on the ground of 'national

security,' a reasonably honest rationale inasmuch as the

government could not have survived without such wholesale

concealment of facts.



If, for example, Big Brother made an error which was

exposed by statistics, the offensive statistics were destroyed

and more satisfactory statistics were published. If books or

newspapers described facts which were embarrassing to the

government, they were merely re-written so as to conform with

official legend. The original troublesome material was simply

fed in the "memory hole," a chute leading down to the

incinerator. The government's policy of vaporizing into

nothingness unpleasant facts contributed in great measure to the

calm of the populace of Oceania. This was helped by the fact

that individuals who interfered with the public calm also tended

to disappear.



"Who controls the past," said the official slogan of the

super-state, "controls the future."



It now appears that, twenty years ahead of Orwell's