“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite old newspapers, so the “facts” always align with the ruling party’s Agenda. It’s a silent war on consciousness where people are enslaved mentally, and they don’t even realize it because they are fully immersed in the intricately planned out illusion full of distractions and lies.