Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined - What 1984 means today (Pure Liberal Projection)

theatlantic.com ^ | George Packer

[RoosterRedux]

What is amazing is that this book review is being published in The Atlantic. It is nothing more than pure liberal projection...projecting the fears of 1984 onto Trump supporters.

It is fascinating that the author of this article can't see that it is the Left, its media, and its colleges and universities that have shut down debate, have nurtured and spread groupthink, doublespeak, and hive mentality.

He (the author) can't see that it is the Left itself that is fascistic in its refusal to allow those who disagree to have a voice and pushes repressive regimentation in society.

He can't see that Political Correctness is Newspeak.

[RoosterRedux]

I didn't have room for a "barf alert" but I think youse guys get the point.

What is important here is that this weird piece is published in The Atlantic. One has to wonder if any readers--even just a few--might see the irony.

[Its All Over Except ...]

The 2 minutes of hate scene in 1984 is now the REEEEing that liberals engage in at MeToo (i.e., REEEEToo protests) protests, at BLM marches, Antfifa get togethers in the streets, and so on.

All sick and yet all entirely predictable.

[datricker]

You just can’t fix stupid reading this makes me wonder if its only a matter of time before the fighting starts. We’ve got two different worlds going on.

[madprof98]

Packer is the quintessential leftist. I first encountered him when I read his Peace Corps memoir, The Village of Waiting, which blames his failures on everyone/thing except the guilty party. Here’s one Amazon review of that book: “Poor George Packer did just about everything possible to assure that his Peace Corps experience would be a real ‘train wreck’. I give him credit for even writing a book like this. I would recommend this book to anyone considering joining the Peace Corps as a guide for what not to do.”

[Savage Beast]

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[samtheman]

I can’t even read this one. I anticipate it being too depressing. Maybe later.

For now I just want to say that your summary

(Pure Liberal Projection)

most certainly says it all.

[goodnesswins]

I just bought several copies of 1984 for some young relatives...going to assign it for “summer reading” since it is what THEY are LIVING in right now! Doubt they will read it, but, can’t say we didn’t warn them.

[RoosterRedux]

It was painful reading. So many lies.

[Pilated]

This article is pure gaslighting.

[Olog-hai]

Well, you would’ve had room for the barf alert if you didn’t write “pure liberal projection” 😉

[Olog-hai]

BTW, The Atlantic publishing left-wing vomitus like this is expected and not amazing at all.

[Steve_Seattle]

"the destruction of the belief in truth"

Apart from anything specific we might say about the age of Trump, transgenderism, the Russia hoax, Trump-as-Hitler, homosexuality, and other current obsessions, the dismissal or demotion of the traditional concept of objective truth is a key tenet of LEFTIST post-modernism and de-constructionism.

The notion of objective truth is derided as a tool of the privileged and powerful, and all "truth" as viewed as a manifestation of political power, class, gender, race, and sex. Just recently, we've heard leftist professors decry the notion of objective truth as "white supremacist" and "racist."

Everybody has their OWN truth. We see this in everything from do-it-yourself New Age religion to our new smorgasbord of 38 genders to CHOOSE from. WE ARE what we IDENTIFY WITH.

I swear, every month The Atlantic outdoes itself in projective idiocy.

[yuleeyahoo]

[PittsburghAfterDark]

It’s not projection.

Anyone that disagrees with the left is now Goldstein. We are stopping freedom from being able to decree all that disagree are racist. We are saying it is wrong with men with penises to declare themselves women to enter dressing rooms, locker rooms and compete against women and therefore are transphobes. We are wrong in our failing to embrace men’s rights to love another man’s anus as natural and symbolic of what God wanted therefore we are homophobes.

It’s the media, universities and intelligentsia that have become all seeing, all knowing, all powerful heads of knowledge and morality. They are the party, they know what’s correct and you.... you are all Goldstein.

Prepare for your two minutes of hate.

[Steve_Seattle]

A common modern example of the denial of truth: “Islam is a religion of peace.”

[JPJones]

“Today the problem is too much information from too many sources, with a resulting plague of fragmentation and division—not excessive authority but its disappearance, which leaves ordinary people to work out the facts for themselves, at the mercy of their own prejudices and delusions. “

A simplistic, inaccurate, prejudiced and deluded take on today’s msm.

Comically, this author seems to be unwittingly calling, nay pining, for a 1984-like authoritarian system.

[reg45]

The author longs for the day when all Trump supporters will be sent to room 100.

[RoosterRedux]

Who is the target? Who is being gaslit?

[Steve_Seattle]

“Today the problem is too much information from too many sources, with a resulting plague of fragmentation and division—not excessive authority but its disappearance, which leaves ordinary people to work out the facts for themselves, at the mercy of their own prejudices and delusions. “

Some comments:

1. The author does not believe that the average person has the intelligence to make good choices.

2. The author seems to believe that "authority" should step in to eliminate some of these "too many sources" that he complains about.

3. The author believes that "ordinary people" are incapable of getting beyond their "prejudices and delusions" without help from "authority."

4. The author believes that "ordinary people" are unlikely to be able to separate fact from fiction.

5. The author's bemoaning of "fragmentation and division" seems at odds with the left's calls for "democracy" and "diversity." It seems to be a call for an enforced uniformity of thought.

6. Why is "too much information" a problem? Presumably more information helps us to make more informed decisions.

7. Who determines what information is in the "too much information" category, and how will they suppress it?

To sump up, the author is the voice of elitism, authoritarianism, and censorship. He certainly has no trust of "ordinary people."