"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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I mean, Orwell did have shitty "get off my lawn" sentiments about neologisms and slang, that's what his essay Politics and the English Language is about, but that's not what Newspeak in 1984 is His own thoughts on the issue were clearly somewhat muddled
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(The idea that there actually is one definition of "clear, plain English" that gets across your objective meaning without bias or manipulation is wrong, of course Any grownup should be able to see that)
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It must be really difficult to be a goodthinkful engineer in Oceania, given that engineering work can't function without on some level keeping in mind that real physics is unarguable
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That's what doublethink is for
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