Yup, if you read it like this, Dostoyevsky was defending the right to go mad ("I am ALLOWED to believe 2+2=5 if I WANT TO") and Orwell goes for this ironic reversal, if all of society is mad then only the madman is sanehttps://twitter.com/GiffordJames/status/1290804551155507200 …
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Which is why 1984 giving us this narration where Winston talks like truth is obvious and easy to see and everyone knows it until totalitarians take it away is so frustrating Like that is, inherently, conservative, that's the definition of the right wing
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The “lesson” of 1984 for me was that there is ultimately no shelter from the oppression of the state in good old fashioned conservatism.
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Critical thinking is great and all, but it requires a certain talent, access to tools and evidence often beyond the ken of the layperson, and, worst of all, time. There are WAY more ideas out there than I have time to think critically about.
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So you wind up just having to take certain things on faith because even if your reasoning capacity was perfect and you always came to the right conclusion (which I don't), there are only so many hours in a day and you have to function.
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