Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.... The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

–George Orwell, 1984