"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past...
Past events it is argue, have not objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is wharever the records and the memories agreed upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of all minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it"
George Orwell, 1984
