1984 #13

"He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so: how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken? By what external standard could you check it's judgments? Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought" (Orwell 277). Two and two makes five, freedom is slavery, it all makes sense. Due to the fact the majority of people understood and taught facts such as those, those were in fact true. Being sane was no longer based on what was true reality, it was based on whether or not you believed the same concepts as those around you. If you thought as the Party thought, you were sane. Winston was beginning to truly think this way, he now accepted that the past was alterable, but had never been altered, he accepted all concepts the Party preached. Before, he had been the one altering the past, now he has no recollection of that. None of it had ever happened, considering the events he was forced to alter never even existed. Winston had now become capable of training his mind to simply accept what needed to be accepted, without question.