$GME

To anyone with critical thinking ability, it was pretty obvious that Winston was going to get caught. Winston himself knows that he had no chance of succeeding, any yet he he held out hope that the brotherhood was real and that O'Brien was going to come and save him until the last moment. I think it is just part of human nature to believe that the most outlandishly perfect version of events will occur until it becomes thoroughly clear that it will not. Recently, I've been watching an internet investing forum called Wall Street Bets. They have been in the news for driving interest in Gamestop, driving its stock price from a $4 to a high of $470. This was a major success akin to Winston having sex in the woods with Julia. With this success, members of the forum were putting their life savings into bets that Gamestop would hit $1000 or more. Even after Gamestop fell back down to $50, people were still confident that another miraculous squeeze would happen and they would be able to retire off of their winnings. Like Winston sitting in a prison cell imagining that the brotherhood would come and save them, members of the forum are hoping that congress will step in and punish the hedge funds that bankrolls them. Would you continue to hold onto hope long past the point any reasonable hope of salvation has passed like Winston and those on Wall Street Bets or are you a pure logician devoid of human emotion.