The Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all....We control matter because we control the mind. Erasing reality along with our freedom and building a new one made of pixels and forcibly suspended disbelief.Could it be done though? Could reality be expunged on a societal level to the extent it has been in Orwell's novel?