2008-10-21

does Orwell say that 2+2=5?

Georges de la Tour. St. Sebastian tended by St. Irene.
c. 1634-1643. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstDdzedgcE

The song's title recalls the symbol of unreality from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). In the book, inhabitants of an authoritarian future state are made to engage in doublethink, replacing their own conscience and beliefs with those imposed from above. At the end of the novel, the protagonist's individuality is demolished, as he avows that two and two are, in fact, five.

"Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes a five
I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April's showers
And two and two always makes a five
It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can SCREAM and you can shout
It is too late now
Because..."

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