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To: okie01
And do you believe the practicioners in this case even realize what they're doing?

Not if they're doing it correctly.

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. 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.

24 posted on 12/28/2013 1:26:16 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Well done.

But, somehow, I doubt Serkis has Winston's grasp of the dialectic...

41 posted on 12/28/2013 4:46:32 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Doublethink is Doubletalk told to yourself. .self delusion meets deliberate ignorance.. Its MSNBC ...
47 posted on 12/28/2013 8:35:58 PM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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