Reread this book recently and was surprised to discover it's the origin of the term memory hole. At least I think it's the originator.

In the fiction, the memory hole is a slot in the wall which leads to an incinerator. Shit gets memory holed in order to deliberately abolish the past. In our information saturated times we use the term to refer to the short vanishing distance of our spectacle discourse. The parallel is there, but there's no agency here. Our social degeneration is more decentralized I guess: a grass-roots effort.

Anyway, could an insidious power really seize control of the whole of your interiority? Could they remake you completely with their abuses and dirty tricksProbably not, but it's a spooky idea.