“Who controls the past . . . controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” (34)

The Party rules because they can change anything to make them seem in the right. Without the ability to find information discrediting them, Party members have no option but to believe that their government is telling the truth. With this control over everything that ever has been, Orwell shows that Party members literally have no choice but to follow where the government leads them. To think anything else marks an individual as crazy, because clearly they have no resources with which to back-up their claims.