If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston. By calling Winston the last man, O’Brien is asserting the Party’s superiority and total control over humanity. The Party has methodically cultivated an environment where citizens both worship and fear Big Brother.

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