“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Power is not a means; it is an end.”
George Orwell, 1984
