# Nineteen Eighty-Four [[George Orwell]]'s 1949 novel of total surveillance and total reality-control — source of the working vocabulary (Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, thoughtcrime, the memory hole, 2+2=5) that the KB's disinformation and authoritarianism files run on, and of the analytical core: the regime that compels assent to demonstrable falsehood as a loyalty test, and rewrites the past at will, has abolished the ground on which resistance stands. Written by a dying man on Jura from materials gathered across the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the propaganda decade; perennial bestseller whenever reality-control politics surges. See [[George Orwell]] for the analysis and the custody battle over the book's posthumous endorsement; [[The Memory Hole]] for the lexicon entry it seeded.