I would say “Don’t give them ideas” but I know they’ve been entertaining that thought already, for for a far longer time back than anyone who isn’t them would dare to think. It’s not about easing pain and leaving bad memories behind, it’s about imposing “Year Zero” conditions and this means nothing more to the actual backers of the movement than a convenient tool. When that ceases to be useful, they’ll look for some other bloody shirt to wave.
I would say “Don’t give them ideas” but I know they’ve been entertaining that thought already, for for a far longer time back than anyone who isn’t them would dare to think. It’s not about easing pain and leaving bad memories behind, it’s about imposing “Year Zero” conditions
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“Year Zero”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has been stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell 1984