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In reply to the discussion: 'I am the Chosen One,' Trump proclaims as he defends trade war with China [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)38. Vaporized Unpersons
Here is how Winston Smith described doublethink in the novel:
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'
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'I am the Chosen One,' Trump proclaims as he defends trade war with China [View all]
crazytown
Aug 2019
OP
Congress keep investigating, SDNY keep investigating, New York AG keep investigating, Democratic
NoMoreRepugs
Aug 2019
#5
This IS YOUR trade war ol self-chosen one. Deal with it. You can not disown it. You own it!
riversedge
Aug 2019
#11
The Nazi republican is trying to cause more mass murders. All in the name of him
rockfordfile
Aug 2019
#44