Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime."
The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power." The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue in Newspeak), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line. The instructions that the workers receive specify the corrections as fixing misquotations and never as what they really are: forgeries and falsifications. A large part of the ministry also actively destroys all documents that have been edited and do not contain the revisions; in this way, no proof exists that the government is lying. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker but secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.
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War Is Peace
by: VelcraThe prophecies came true
I witness the living proof
The world becomes as described in the fiction
The empty eyes stare at me
He's telling me war is peace
The course of events fits the description
The race has begun counting 3-2-1
The race has begun counting 3-2-1
I'm not a star in your flag
But I'm expected to stand
For the blood thirsty cause of your forces
I cannot stay outside
There is no middle ground
No one can prevent things from changing
The battle has begun counting 3-2-1
The battle has begun counting 3-2-1
Are you ready?
So run for your lives when it comes
We hail you dressed in rage
Cause only the insane will equate
Integrity with pain
Annihilate to liberate
Call your dogs of war
To account for
The hate, the disgrace you will now face
Cause we don't believe in the hype
about the land of the free
Where justice can be bought
Count zero
The signal is black and white
The evil personified
I'm looking at a face of catastrophy
The terror is unified
My vote is bought with the sight
Of the innocent cries
We've gotta make it right!
The race has begun counting 3-2-1
The race has begun counting 3-2-1
I know I gotta do
What's right for me and you
I won't give up the hope, no
The dove has been shot down
The flowers stomped to the ground
But will always remain idealistic
The battle has begun counting 3-2-1
The battle has begun counting 3-2-1
I'm ready
So run for your lives when it comes
We hail you dressed in rage
Cause only the insane will equate
Integrity with pain
Annihilate to liberate
Call your dogs of war
To account for
The hate, the disgrace you will now face
Cause we don't believe in the hype
about the land of the free
Where justice can be bought
Count, count zero
What's right for me and you
What's right for me and you
What's right for me and you
What's right for me and you