On the Shelf 9.6.12

This Week's Reading:
Resuming my sluggish pace for reading, I only have thirty more pages under my belt for 1984. However, in the spirit of achievement and an increase in time I will spend in a car, I believe I will finish reading it by next week. Granted, that's what I told myself last week, but this week I'm telling myself I'm not lying. Because that always works. But I digress.
Anyway, of the pages I did read, Big Brother's concept of reality struck me most. For those who haven't read 1984, and based on who actually reads this is, at most, one person, the section of the Minitrue (Ministry of Truth) that our protagonist, Winston Smith, works in, is in charge of correcting 'false' information previously released. So basically, Big Brother and the Ministries make projections about supplies, wars and patterns of the future. These patterns are usually found inaccurate and then Minitrue employees are asked to correct them. The original assumption I made was simply that the disutopia eliminated information that shed a less that positive light on Big Brother and the authorities of Oceania. However, Winston reveals that the even the original statements were equally inaccurate as the new 'real' results. The thought of the truth being so muddied and uncertain that even those manipulating the information were confused is a terrifying one that strikes a little too close to home.
Honorable Mention of the Week:
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. Yes, I'm back at tv tropes again. This trope covers a character who has been killed off or 'put on a bus' (sent away for an undefinable period with little to no explanation) because the author was sick of writing for them. I found myself spending a fair amount of time on the page as it reminded me of some of my old interests and characters I hadn't realized I had missed.