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Big Brother is watching you.
His name is creationsciencescientificreationismIntelligentDesignDiscoveryInstitutePatRobertson and he will not rest until all reality has been created in his own image.
dou·ble·think
Thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, especially when used as a technique of self-indoctrination: “Doublethink... is a vast system of mental cheating” (George Orwell).
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=doublethink
Double think: 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, pages 35, 176-177)
Blackwhite: In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, blackwhite means the ability to accept whatever "truth" the governing totalitarian party puts out, no matter how absurd it may be. Orwell described it as "...loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this. It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary."
The ability to blindly believe anything, regardless of its absurdity, can have different causes: respect for authority, fear, indoctrination, even critical laziness or gullibility. Orwell's blackwhite refers only to that caused by fear, indoctrination or repression of one's individual critical thinking ("to know black is white"), rather than caused by laziness or gullibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwhite
Doublethink and blackwhite are the pillars of creationism and charicteristics of any group dedicated to denying and suppressing reality whether it be political, religious or social in nature.
Without blackwhite and doublethink, the creationist would never be able to observe evidence of common descent and believe it to be proof of special creation.
Without doublethink and blackwhite, religious fundamentalism would never be able to masquerade as science.
IS IGNORANCE STRENGTH?
His name is creationsciencescientificreationismIntelligentDesignDiscoveryInstitutePatRobertson and he will not rest until all reality has been created in his own image.
dou·ble·think
Thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, especially when used as a technique of self-indoctrination: “Doublethink... is a vast system of mental cheating” (George Orwell).
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=doublethink
Double think: 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, pages 35, 176-177)
Blackwhite: In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, blackwhite means the ability to accept whatever "truth" the governing totalitarian party puts out, no matter how absurd it may be. Orwell described it as "...loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this. It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary."
The ability to blindly believe anything, regardless of its absurdity, can have different causes: respect for authority, fear, indoctrination, even critical laziness or gullibility. Orwell's blackwhite refers only to that caused by fear, indoctrination or repression of one's individual critical thinking ("to know black is white"), rather than caused by laziness or gullibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwhite
Doublethink and blackwhite are the pillars of creationism and charicteristics of any group dedicated to denying and suppressing reality whether it be political, religious or social in nature.
Without blackwhite and doublethink, the creationist would never be able to observe evidence of common descent and believe it to be proof of special creation.
Without doublethink and blackwhite, religious fundamentalism would never be able to masquerade as science.
IS IGNORANCE STRENGTH?
