Porcupine_I on 11 December 2013
Is anyone really surprised?
"They will fix it" is the new credo already, and i'm sure there will be plenty of people who understand even less then the author and will take this seriously.
“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’
