Porcupine_I on 19 October 2010
my point of view is: i weren't there
it's easy to judge anything from the past but to truly understand the situation you had to live in that time, you had to spend years in a state of war, and feel the same emotions, hope, desperation, uncertainty, fear of things to come, people have had back then.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, 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.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
