The Strong Delusion is going to come upon us eventually. I think that's what it is.

I believe George Orwell tried to describe what is happening today 70 years ago when he wrote 1984. It's simplistic, the mechanism he suggested and not altogether even the least bit realistic. But the result is the exact same as he described in the book. Total loss of all memory of past history. And it can happen in an instant.

But not exactly a total loss. Winston still remembered some things. As hard as Big brother tried, there were still a few who remembered.