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To: Aristotelian
"Hillary did what nowadays would be international summitry -- flying back and forth between sides," maintaining credibility with all, impressing faculty and fellow students ...

Gee! Is this not the same thing she does today?

Is it not called "doubblethink" as George Orwell described it?

George Orwell coined the term doublethink in his classic novel 1984. Doublethink is the power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. "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.

6 posted on 11/22/2007 2:22:46 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Is it not called "doubblethink" as George Orwell described it?

What always bugs me about the left and Orwell is that they claim he was speaking of capitalism and empire when it clearly was socialism/marxism empire aspirations he was refuting. I presume they understood Orwell's popularity so they decided to try to make him their own. That's a double-edge sword that eventually cuts them when a person such as I gets through their subterfuge (sic?) and sees the truth.

30 posted on 11/22/2007 7:51:56 PM PST by torchthemummy ("A Tagline Presidential Endorsement Forfeits A Presumption Of Objectivity")
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