Dear Diary,

As I write, this may seem irrelevant or void. I have succeeded at my purpose time and time again regardless of how hidden this is, I know that they'll find me, but I pen down these things not to go against the society that raised me, but to use my mind in good work. I've seen those that long for more, and I comprehend that yet I question their distrust of Big Brother as he really isn't so bad. He supports and allows us to grow yet many times, I have felt that traitorous thoughts raised and pressed by others' questions which make me wonder. What if he isn't really manifested physically, and what if history stayed the same? Those awful thoughts are a joke inspired to scare us as if we had succumbed to the point where our children, wonderful creatures that obey Big Brother, would turn us in. I refuse to be led astray by these thoughts, so that they, too, become a joke to me.

-O'Brien (1984)