This interpretation of the book is flat out wrong if you actually pay attention when you read the whole thing And yet it's incredibly common The *tone* of the book invites it, this sense that revolution has ruined what was a flourishing happy world
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"Doublethink" is one of those concepts that 1984 has made into a very sinister meme that isn't really Like these same chuds really enjoy the apocryphal quote "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it", don't they
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Oh Chu, what you don’t realize is that you are in The Party. One cannot know this when they don’t have any original thoughts, & simply repeat the Party line, even if for purely performative reasons, social status, mating tactics, whatever. Orwell’s relevance is significant.
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Speaking as someone raised a theocratic conservative- yes, it is fucking hard work. You have to gaslight yourself All. Day. Long. And the work gets harder every day.
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That’s why the Daily Hate programming was ramped up from minutes to hours to round-the-clock broadcasts, bc directing that horrible feeling outward is the only way to avoid having the edifice collapse.
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