It was in his 1948 novel “1984” that George Orwell conceived the phenomenon of “Doublethink”. He defined it as, “To know and to not 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 is 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”.
What better description is there of HM Government’s attempts at communication?
Nico
[This article was first broadcast on Sixteen Million Rising]
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