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...know. I like certain things ineach. I have to confess I love McDonald's fries,but everybody loves McDonald's fries. They'reunparalleled! But I make a point of eating in allthe other places to keep up. I'm interested indoing a project on not just McDonald's in EastAsia, but the entire fast food system, in Europeand Russia, too. I'm going as a visiting professorthis spring to the University of Paris and Iintend to take that as an opportunity not just tohave some great French food in restaurants, but tocheck out the indigenous fast food rivals toMcDonald...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...
...this moment, in 1984, Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially, Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. -1984, George Orwell...
...course, the rest of us study international relations. We know that wars are never permanent, and neither are alliances. Both wars and alliances shift back and forth. Enemies become friends. Friends become enemies. Every two or three decades, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia go through another cycle...
Thus Winston Smith '67 can feel reassured. Within nineteen years from now, let us say, the current cycle will end. Oceania and Eastasia will become friends. Together we will fight the new enemy, Eurasia...