When has anybody worked so hard to sanitize their history?!?
Ever read Orwell's "1984"?? If you haven't, I highly recommend it, it's very good. It's all about an all-encompassing government system that sanitizes and rewrites its own history to keep the people under its control and prevent them from questioning the past and the government's lies. This government employs people to rewrite historical documents and destroy the truth using "Doublespeak", and there are even thought-police to prevent people from thinking independently. It even has a symbol, but instead of a watchtower picture, it's a omnipresent representation of a stern man called "Big Brother". It might be a work of fiction, but it's so much like the WTS that it scares me.
The WTS is like Big Brother, forever changing and reorganizing things to keep its followers in line and afraid to rebel.
The thing is, that's a fictional example - in the real world, the WTS is probably the only organization currently operating that is legal and yet completely and utter all-controlling and totalitarian when it comes to its followers.
-Becka :)