This made me think of 1984 and how the protagonist's job is to manufacture public record to support the totalitarian regime. He can barely fathom reality because he's part of the machine that destroys and recreates it. In the end, once he's broken by the state, he completely accepts the reality the state has created for him. It's scary, and makes me very grateful we can question the public record and reality as you do here.
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