doublethink
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
"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 so 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.
Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise
doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering
with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge;
and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the
truth."
- George Orwell, 1984
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UnKnowN&StillHere (70 months ago | reply)
double trouble..
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St Stev (69 months ago | reply)
Doubleplusgood! Could you add this to www.flickr.com/groups/georgeorwell please?
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spiritdesspiritdes [deleted] (68 months ago | reply)
nice application of newspeak
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