Well that witness will be Arkanacided soon.

"Published on Oct 21, 2017"

U1. Down the memory hole.

"Published on Oct 21, 2017"

U1. Down the memory hole.

Draino? :-/

Memory Hole

In Nineteen Eighty-Four the memory hole is a small chute leading to a large incinerator used for censorship:

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.^[5]

Nineteen Eighty-Four'

s protagonist Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth, is routinely assigned the task of revising old newspaper articles in order to serve the propaganda interests of the government. For example, Smith may be called to retroactively change a statement about food rationing to reflect new policies.

The memory hole is referenced while O'Brien tortures Smith; O'Brien produces evidence of a coverup by the Party, exciting Smith that such documentation exists. However, O'Brien then destroys the evidence in the memory hole and denies not only the existence of the evidence but also any memory of his actions. Smith realizes that this is doublethink in action, as O'Brien has actively suppressed his memory of both a politically inconvenient fact and his action taken to destroy the evidence of it.^[6]

I used to think Orwell was a visionary, now I think he was an optimist.

I used to think Orwell was a visionary, now I think he was an optimist.

The NSA's supercomputers can spy on everything. I would even advise taping over the camera in your laptop. ;)

Draino?

Izzat how they do that??

Draino?

Izzat how they do that??

Yep. The Memory Hole is like a drain, once something gets caught in the swirl you go down the hole. Impossible to get out once you do down.

Back home once in a while a thousand leg bug would appear in the bathtub. You would just flush it down the drain and it was gone. ;)