There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word — Man - George Orwell

Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. This is an illusion, and one should recognise it as such, but one ought also to stick to one's own world-view, even at the price of seeming old-fashioned: for that world-view springs out of experiences that the younger generation has not had, and to abandon it is to kill one's intellectual roots.

It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two plus two will make five when the Leader says so.