Reality Control
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The
Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia.
He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia
as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist?
Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records
told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
"Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though
of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true
now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple.
All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.
"Reality control," they called it; In Newspeak, "doublethink."
— from 1984, Section One, Chapter
3
by George Orwell
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It's
generally accepted that this nation began on July 4, 1776. It's taught
in all of the schools. It's proclaimed in all of the media.
It's a part of our heritage. It's also a lie. There's even
a second lie, about which nation is designated in the first lie.
The second lie is that this nation has been here all along. However,
prior to the existence of the present United States of America, there were
on this continent two other unions that had the same name. The second
United States of America had a constitution called the Articles of Confederation.
Its form of government was very different from that of the present United
States of America. For example, it didn't have an executive branch.
The point, however, is that the identical names don't mean much.
They only make it easier to perpetuate the lie. They were entirely
different unions. The first union wasn't even a single nation at
all.
The
second United States of America began on March 1, 1781, when the Articles
of Confederation went into force. The present United States of America
began on March 4, 1789, when the Congress met for the first time under
the authority of the present Constitution. Neither of those dates
is July 4, 1776. Therefore, the Fourth of July doesn't commemorate
the beginning of either nation.
If
all of the records proclaim that the country began on July 4, 1776 and
has been here ever since, and if everyone accepts the lies, then the lies
pass into history and become truth. However, the lies aren't the
truth yet. The U.S. ministry of lies missed one lone copy of one
lone book. That book passed through unknown hands for about 100 years
and ended up in mine. That one lone book defies the lies.
Under
the terms of the constitution (art. vii.), its ratification by nine states
was sufficient to establish it between the states so ratifying it.
Accordingly, when, on July 2, 1788, the ratification by the ninth state
was read to congress1,
a committee was appointed to prepare an act for putting the constitution
into effect; and on September 13, 1788—in accordance with the recommendations
made by the convention in reporting the constitution—congress appointed
days for choosing electors, etc., and resolved that the first Wednesday
in March then next (March 4, 1789) should be the time, and the then seat
of congress (New York) the place, for commencing government under the new
constitution. Proceedings were had in accordance with these directions,
and on March 4, 1789, congress met, but, owing to the want of a quorum,
the house did not organize until April 1st, nor the senate until April
6th. Washington took the oath of office on April 30th. The
constitution became the law of the land on March 4, 1789.
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