βIt appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday [β¦] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?β
β Orwell George, 1984
Yep, Orwell was a true prophet.
But even he could not have imagined that the Party could make you believe that men could get pregnant, or women had dicks.
But, we’re in 2023, many years after 1984, so, naturally we have “progressed” a lot since then.