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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

which any Party intellectual would overthrow him<br />

in <strong>de</strong>bate, the subtle arguments which he would not<br />

be able to un<strong>de</strong>rstand, much less answer. And yet<br />

he was in the right! They were wrong and he was<br />

right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to<br />

be <strong>de</strong>fen<strong>de</strong>d. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The<br />

solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones<br />

are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall<br />

towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he<br />

was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was<br />

setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:<br />

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two<br />

make four. If that is granted, all else follows.<br />

104<br />

que cualquier intelectual <strong>de</strong>l Partido lo vencería<br />

con su dialéctica, los sutiles argumentos que él<br />

nunca podría enten<strong>de</strong>r y menos contestar. Y, sin<br />

embargo, era él, Winston, quien tenía razón. Los<br />

otros estaban equivocados y él no. Había que<br />

<strong>de</strong>fen<strong>de</strong>r lo evi<strong>de</strong>nte. El mundo sólido existe y sus<br />

leyes no cambian. Las piedras son duras, el agua<br />

moja, los objetos faltos <strong>de</strong> apoyo caen en dirección<br />

al centro <strong>de</strong> la Tierra... Con la sensación <strong>de</strong> que<br />

hablaba con O'Brien, y también <strong>de</strong> que anotaba un<br />

importante axioma, escribió:<br />

La libertad es po<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong>cir libremente que dos y<br />

dos son cuatro. Si se conce<strong>de</strong> esto, todo lo <strong>de</strong>más<br />

vendrá por sus pasos contados.

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