Yes, Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus
metroweekly.com1984, a gift from elder sister Megan. That also informed my thoughts about truth. Protagonist Winston was plagued by truth and untruth, spending his days erasing unpeople’s paper trails at the Ministry of Truth.
A new novel set in the same 1984 universe, Julia, by Sandra Newman, doesn’t offer many giggles. Told from the perspective of Winston’s titular lover, I will, however, admit to being tickled when Julia considers Winston’s obsession with truth to be kind of odd, pointless, and a drag.If you’re familiar with the story, you know Winston is broken during a torture session at the Ministry of Love.
Part of that breaking centers on a simple equation: 2 + 2 = 4. The Party taught Winston that two plus two equals whatever the party says it equals.When it comes to truth, I find the course of my life has taken me from somewhere in the neighborhood of #TeamWinston to somewhere nearer #TeamJulia.
I’ve come to learn that hard truths are sometimes only as hard as dogma might demand.An obnoxious case in point is the currently loaded question: What is a woman?
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