Double-Think - 'Making People Believe the Lie'
George Orwell: '1984' - 8 June 1949 & 7 Feb 2019 [70] [35]
Born Eric Arther Blair - Died 21 JAN 1950
DoubleThink: The ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in your mind simultaneously while accepting both of them AND knowing when to bring the right one to the surface while casting the other aside. It's a powerful tool.
BOOK: Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED311451.pdf
Destruction of Language
“When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach.”
→Vaclav Havel
[Czech Playwright and President of Czechoslovskia (1989-1992)]
VOCAB: Mendacious: untruthful, misleading