Porcupine_I on 14 December 2015
They can't be coming back. Their entire civilization had been destroyed.
Whoever is coming now is not coming back because the ones who were here last time never left.
“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’
