Not intelligence, precisely (you can be a very competent Nazi) but creativity, specifically. You need to be able to think like the adversary to do what O’Brien does, and the very crimethink mindset that defines the regime makes cultivating such people impossible.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @trans_victory and
The antidote to that is supposed to be doublethink But even the narration from Winston's POV post-conversion points out that doublethink is fucking hard work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
"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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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
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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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
We don’t need to cancel genius because mediocre cultural commentators who simply repeat slogans, and cannot create their own material, decide that great writers who put their finger on things they hold sacred must be ignored. So sorry, thoughts and prayers.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
Of course, The Party doesn’t need to be the government. Orwell didn’t realize that. It can be high society, or your peers, or a number of private institutions. But it’s unlikely Party Members have an interest in identifying their own ideas.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @lawnerdbarak and
Which side of the argument here is looking at mathematicians trying to explain what they've learned about abstract algebra and telling them to shut the fuck up
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Replying to @alongdongsilver @JeremyPhilosoph and
The fact that you "don't understand" who the mathematicians are "batting for" shows you don't have the depth for this conversation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @alongdongsilver and
Seriously, read A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart (everyone should read it at some point)
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It doesn't actually mention so-called "woke" of race/class/gender directly but it is about those things, in the broader sense of asking "Why are we pretending math has nothing to do with the human beings who do math, that it's not a 'subjective' activity just like art and music"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @alongdongsilver and
Also why are we pretending its not creative and fluid
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