Word: doublethink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that on Aug. 1, 1973, the Washington Post reported a private investigation launched by the Nixon White House on the Smothers brothers. Can Doublethink T shirts and Big Brother barbecue aprons be far behind...
...Orwell and his monstrous doublethink, how is one to live responsibly in this world without a certain amount of doublethinking? Orwell described doublethink as accepting "two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously." Is there no doublethinking required about abortion, school prayer, foreign policy, nuclear weapons? What would be the advantage of singlethinking on such issues, unless one thrives on zealotry and has a deep-seated passion to be wrong...
That a college can, on the one hand, require students to agree that the Bible is "verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing" and, on the other, hand out degrees in anthropology is doublethink enough. What is even more incredible is that Wheaton can rank on someone's list of best colleges...
...evils, existing beneath the umbrella of its overall good effect of preserving individual freedom. Capitalism has a good case to argue. It is the case of freedom." The fact remains that throughout the world, millions prefer security to freedom, or think they do, never having known real freedom. Indeed doublethink Communism teaches them to redefine security as freedom...