This is a story I wrote quickly tonight after the idea popped into my head while working in the garage. It is very unlikely to happen, but it is a possibility. I wrote this not to scare people, but to share the ideas in this story.
"[W]hen memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."