c'mon where are all smart guys in ATRL ?

Are some people here studying philosophy or management science? There's a concept called holism, that basically says that system is more than just a sum of their components(parts) for all the connections between those parts. System operates as a whole entity.

Because the Party says it equals 2.

If you're asking about the names or symbols that identify the numbers which you are asking about, then essentially "just because." Somebody at some point determined that they were the best or easiest identifiers for the concepts which they represent.

If you're asking about the state of numbers themselves... also "just because." Essentially, numbers are an intrinsic element of spacetime and reality. To be more clear, there is always a definite quantity of every value, whether that quantity be positive, negative, zero, or imaginary. The quantities represented by "one" and "two" in the English language or "1" and "2" in the alphanumeric set of Latin characters are expressly defined as being a single unit of some thing or value and a single unit coupled with another unit. Therefore, when you add "1" to itself, you obtain the exact definition of "2," thereby allowing you to define your result as "2."

All "things" are the boundary conditions we use to explain the happening


we have the winner

what in the world

Because that's what the government wants you to believe. Free your mind and you will find the true meaning to 1+1. That numbers are a creation of us as a species and 1 just like 2 doesn't in fact exist.