controlling the past, present, and future.

I was taken back by the quote I received. It was so simple in what it was saying, but has a powerful message. The quote is ' "who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." '. It is talking about how the governments that are in power control what is written in the history books, and what is forgotten. By doing this, the governments are controlling what people learn in the present, about the past. The same governments also steer society in whatever direction they want to, and controls the future. It is significant to Winston because he is starting to realize that Big Brother (BB) is brain washing people that, without BB, everything would be chaotic and madness. He notices this when he has the moment of eye contact with O'Brian.