The dystopia of '1984' is already here
(elpais.com)
“How many fingers am I holding up?” Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, answers based on what his eyes tell him: there are four. Only the Party agent directing his re-education insists that there are five. By dint of electric shocks and various forms of torture, he begins to doubt his own perception, until at the end of the book he also perceives them: there are five, no doubt about it.
“How many fingers am I holding up?” Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, answers based on what his eyes tell him: there are four. Only the Party agent directing his re-education insists that there are five. By dint of electric shocks and various forms of torture, he begins to doubt his own perception, until at the end of the book he also perceives them: there are five, no doubt about it.