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Dear Botheius, I have read your book, The Consolations of Philosophy and I have to say that not much has changed since then other than the fact that the only crime to possible commit now is thoughtcrime. Thoughtcrime is a term created by The Party(an that controls all of Oceania). Anyone who commits thoughtcrime is immediately imprisoned and some of the time even vaporized(completely forgotten by everyone, any record of you vanishes). When people are accused of thoughtcrime they're sent to a horrid prison. They lock you up, they starve you, they even have this new technology called telescreens that watch your every move. Anyone seen thinking of anything against the Party will be sent to room 101. In room 101 there will be a person who tortures you until your pain is unbearable. They will get you to confess any crime you have commited, even if you haven't done so. As it is said "thoughtcrime does not ential death, thoughtcrime is death." You see, Room 101 does exactly what the Party is hoping to do to everyone. They want nothing but to completely erase any human feeling. Sometime in the future, nobody will even know the word love or happy. Everything will disappear, the world will die down. "Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves." In my opinion, the Party will succeed, the world will be nothing, and that's fine with me. After learning of the Party and Big Brother(the leader and creator of the Party) and understanding what the Party and Big Brother are trying to do, you must accept it. Accept that no thought other than what the Party or Big Brother want you to think. As a main leader of the Party had said, "It is intolerable to us that an erraneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it might be." After reading your book, I was amazed that there was actually a time where people could let their thoughts roam free and still have human feeling. Now that we're in a time of absolutely nothing, it seems as though the past had so much more freedom. Since your book was about still having your thoughts when you have nothing else, I thought I'd explain to you how that doesn't exist anymore. We're all empty. Sincerely, Adriana Doyle