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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

that I'd dared to show it to anybody. I don't imagine<br />

that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But<br />

one can imagine little knots of resistance springing<br />

up here and there—small groups of people banding<br />

themselves together, and gradually growing, and<br />

even leaving a few records behind, so that the next<br />

generations can carry on where we leave off.'<br />

'I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm<br />

interested in US.'<br />

'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he<br />

told her.<br />

She thought this brilliantly witty and flung her arms<br />

round him in delight.<br />

In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not<br />

the faintest interest. Whenever he began to talk of<br />

the principles of Ingsoc, doublethink, the mutability<br />

of the past, and the denial of objective reality, and<br />

to use Newspeak words, she became bored and<br />

confused and said that she never paid any attention<br />

to that kind of thing. One knew that it was all<br />

rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it? She<br />

knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was<br />

all one needed. If he persisted in talking of such<br />

subjects, she had a disconcerting habit of falling<br />

asleep. She was one of those people who can go to<br />

sleep at any hour and in any position. Talking to<br />

her, he realized how easy it was to present an<br />

appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp<br />

whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the<br />

world-view of the Party imposed itself most<br />

successfully on people incapable of understanding<br />

it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant<br />

violations of reality, because they never fully<br />

grasped the enormity of what was demanded of<br />

them, and were not sufficiently interested in public<br />

events to notice what was happening. By lack of<br />

understanding they remained sane. They simply<br />

swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did<br />

them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just<br />

as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the<br />

body of a bird.<br />

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algunas dudas aquí y allá, suponiendo que me<br />

hubiese atrevido a enseñársela a alguien. No creo<br />

que podamos cambiar el curso de los<br />

acontecimientos mientras vivamos. Pero es<br />

posible que se creen algunos centros de<br />

resistencia, grupos de descontentos que vayan<br />

aumentando e incluso dejando testimonios tras<br />

ellos de modo que la generación siguiente pueda<br />

recoger la antorcha y continuar nuestra obra.<br />

— No me interesa la próxima generación, cariño.<br />

Me interesa nosotros.<br />

— No eres una rebelde más que de cintura para<br />

abajo —dijo él.<br />

Ella encontró esto muy divertido y le echó los<br />

brazos al cuello, complacida.<br />

Julia no se interesaba en absoluto por las<br />

ramificaciones de la doctrina del partido. Cuando<br />

Winston hablaba de los principios de Ingsoc, el<br />

doblepensar, la mutabilidad del pasado y la<br />

degeneración de la realidad objetiva y se ponía a<br />

emplear palabras de neolengua, la joven se aburría<br />

espantosamente, además de hacerse un lío, y se<br />

disculpaba diciendo que nunca se había fijado en<br />

esas cosas. Si se sabía que todo ello era un<br />

absoluto camelo, ¿para qué preocuparse? Lo único<br />

que a ella le interesaba era saber cuándo tenía que<br />

vitorear y cuándo le correspondía abuchear. Si<br />

Winston persistía en hablar de tales temas, Julia se<br />

quedaba dormida del modo más desconcertante.<br />

Era una de esas personas que pueden dormirse en<br />

cualquier momento y en las posturas más<br />

increíbles. Hablándole, comprendía Winston qué<br />

fácil era presentar toda la apariencia de la<br />

ortodoxia sin tener idea de qué significaba<br />

realmente lo ortodoxo. En cierto modo la visión<br />

del mundo inventada por el Partido se imponía<br />

con excelente éxito a la gente incapaz de<br />

comprenderla. Hacía aceptar las violaciones más<br />

flagrantes de la realidad porque nadie comprendía<br />

del todo la enormidad de lo que se les exigía ni se<br />

interesaba lo suficiente por los acontecimientos<br />

públicos para darse cuenta de lo que ocurría. Por<br />

falta de comprensión, todos eran políticamente

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