The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
– 1984, George Orwell
A bit of a pretentious knobhead with thoughts too big for his head and a need to get them out to leave room for other things.