Porcupine_I on 25 December 2015
I dunno, what he says still makes it sound like a figurehead with a lot of people doing stuff for him. He just makes sure they do them exactly like he wants it and he has enough knowledge to challenge them.
“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’
