Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [598]

But she refused to believe that widespread, organised opposition existed or could exist. The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in. Times beyond number, at Party rallies and spontaneous demonstrations, she had shouted at the top of her voice for the execution of people whose names she had never heard and in whose supposed crimes she had not the faintest belief. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 598

Note

Julia’s secular pragmatism in action: she performs the Party’s rituals without believing any of the substance — shouting for executions of people she’s never heard of. Orwell uses her to show orthodoxy as pure outward conformity decoupled from belief.