The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, part 1, chapter 3
It is funny how so many tactics of the left mirror the very things Orwell warned about in 1984 and then consider the fact that Orwell himself was actually a progressive.
Doublethink:
It is funny how so many tactics of the left mirror the very things Orwell warned about in 1984 and then consider the fact that Orwell himself was actually a progressive.
Isn’t that a sort of doublethink?
c’mon Harvey, I can explain the logic behind this in simple terms, easy enough for anyone of any political persuasion to swallow.
Sodas > 16oz are harmful to your health.
Apparently, gay sex isn’t.
Gay used to be such a happy word!
Yes, but isn’t equally ilogical to believe exactly the opposit on both issues?