Bob
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:27:39 GMT, Larry in AZ
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|>From: Larry in AZ <use...@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com>
|>Subject: Re: I'm #2 !!! Most stolen car
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|>so. The trick of doing
|>this can be learned like any other mental technique. It is learned by the
|>majority of Party members, and certainly by all who are intelligent as well
|>as orthodox. In Oldspeak it is called, quite frankly, 'reality control'. In
|>Newspeak it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else
|>as well.
|> Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in
|>one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party
|>intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he
|>therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise
|>of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The
|>process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient
|>precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a
|>feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart
|>of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious
|>deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete
|>honesty. 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. Ultimately
|>it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able -- and may, for
|>all we know, continue to be able for t
|>