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- Now for the future.
A question:
"How does one man assert [επιβεβαιωνει - επιβάλλει] power over another?"
- By making him suffer.
- Exactly. Obedience is not enough.
Power is inflicting pain and humiliation. Otherwise, you cannot be sure.
Power is tearing human minds apart...
and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Power is not a means, it is an end. [η ισχύς ως αυτοσκοπός]
In our world, there will only be triumph and self-abasement [αυτο-ταπείνωση].
Everything else, we shall destroy.
The past is forbidden. Why?
Because when we can cut man from his own past...
then we can cut him from his family, his children, other men.
There is no loyalty, except loyalty to the Party.
There is no love, except love of Big Brother.
All competing pleasures, we will destroy.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine...
a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Winston, you are thinking that my face is old and tired...
that while I talk of power...
I’m unable to prevent the decay of my own body.
But the individual is only a cell.
And the weariness [καταπόνηση - εξάντληση] of the cell is the vigor [σφρίγος] of the organism.
- You’ll fail.
- Why?
- It’s impossible.
Hatred, the fear of life.
- Why is hate less vital than love?
- I don’t know.
But somehow you’ll fail.
Something will defeat you.
Life will defeat you.
- We control life at all levels.
We create human nature.
Men are infinitely malleable [εύπλαστοι].
Or perhaps you’ve returned to your old idea that the proletarians will arise.
Put it out of your mind.
They are helpless animals.
Humanity is the body.
- I don’t care. In the end, they’ll beat you.
Sooner or later, they’ll tear you to pieces.
- On what evidence?
- Goldstein’s book.
- I wrote it. Or, at least, I collaborated in writing it.
No book is individually produced, as you know.
- I just believe it.
I know you’ll fail.
Something in this world...
some spirit you will never overcome"... "
- What is it, this principle?
- I don’t know.
The spirit of man.
- And do you consider yourself a man?
- Yes.
- If you are a man, you’re the last man.
Your kind is extinct.
We are the inheritors.
Do you understand that you are alone?
You are outside history.
You unexist.
Get up.
Come here.
Look at you.
You’re rotting away.
That is the last man.
If you are human, that is humanity.
