Brian Stalin 13 hrs · Edited · Free your mind, awaken and dare to utter the heresy of 2+2=5. You have now reached full enlightenment, or have you? Could it be a trick? Can you put 2 and 2 together and make 4? If so, Fluoride, Gnosis, Channeling, Psychics, Conspiracy Theorists (the government being foremost among them), Kabbalah, music, movies and education can change all that! We CAN break free from the bondage of truth! As Winston thinks, “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?” The mathematical sentence 2 + 2 = 5 thus becomes a motif linked to the theme of psychological independence. Early in the novel, Winston writes that “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” The motif comes full circle at the end of the novel after the torture Winston suffers in the Ministry of Love breaks his soul; he sits at the Chestnut Tree Café and traces “2 + 2 = 5” in the dust on his table. https://youtube/watch?v=QjgE4kNSU74
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