[VadeRetro]

I could probably credit Physicist, whose freepmail on the departure of--I won't go there--made a similar point.

[PatrickHenry]

That reminds me of something from 1984:

The Ministry of Truth -- Minitrue, in Newspeak -- was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

It's that last slogan which is in play here ...