George Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address showed that doublethink didn’t die in 1984.
Credit Reason.tv with the brilliant editing.
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the answer to 1984 is 1776…….
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This is the result of a disordered mind that wants everyone to love them and respect them and is willing to be all things for all people but in a very disorderly and meaningless way because there is no spine behind it no real code there other than doing what he can to remain number one.