Foreword "Its Interests Lie Elsewhere"

[Dave Monroe]

"The regime in Oceania seems immune to the lure of
wealth.  Its interests lie elsewhere, in the exercise
of power for its own sake, in its unrelenting war on
memory, desire, and language as a vehicle of thought.
   "Memory is relatively easy to deal with, from the
totalitarian point of view.  There is always some
agency like the Ministry of Truth to deny the memories
of others, to rewrite the past.  It has become a
commonplace circa 2003 for government employees to be
paid more than most of the rest of us to debase
history, trivializetruth, and annihilate the past on a
daily basis.  Those who don't learn from history used
to have to relive it, but only until those in power
could find a way to convince everybody, including
themselves, that history never happened, or happened
in a way best serving their own purposes--or best of
all that it doesn't matter anyway, except as some
dumbed-down TV documentary cobbled together for an
hour's entertainment."  ("Foreword," p. xvi)

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