Doublethink In History And Present Day Modern Society

Sit in the classroom as this professor introduces and explains why understanding doublethink is very important.. This clip is from the movie 'Detachment' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y782UYHKD0

The video answers some questions;

What does doublethink mean today? Where can one find it? Who is using it? How does it work? 

DEFINITION OF DOUBLETHINK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;

"Doublethink is the act of ordinary people simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts.[1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy and neutrality. Somewhat related but almost the opposite is cognitive dissonance, where contradictory beliefs cause conflict in one's mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

Doublethink is notable due to a lack of cognitive dissonance — thus the person is completely unaware of any conflict or contradiction. (The person who is lying actually believes what they are saying is TRUE, and even a lie detector could not catch them.)

BEING NORMAL, BEING PART OF A GROUP, WANTING TO FIT IN, IS PART OF DOUBLETHINK

George Orwell coined the word doublethink in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984); doublethink is part of newspeak. In the novel, its origin within the typical citizen is unclear; while it could be partly a product of Big Brother's formal brainwashing programs,[2] the novel explicitly shows people learning Doublethink and newspeak due to peer pressure and a desire to "fit in", or gain status within the Party — to be seen as a loyal Party Member. In the novel, for someone to even recognize–let alone mention–any contradiction within the context of the Party line was akin to blasphemy, and could subject that someone to possible disciplinary action and to the instant social disapproval of fellow Party Members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

(In other words, keeping up with the neighbors, keeping up appearances, and pretending to be ok or happy is more important than being who you truly are, expressing your true feelings, and pursuing your own path in life, even if that means you end up taking the road less traveled. This also means not exploring or learning about things like doublethink and how it applies to one's life, thoughts, feelings, and career path, because that is not 'normal'.)

NOVEL Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) DEFINITION OF DOUBLETHINK

According to the novel, doublethink is:

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.[3] ”

“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.[3] ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

DOUBLETHINK DEFINITION APPLIED TO POLITICS

Orwell explains that the Party could not protect its iron power without degrading its people with constant propaganda. Yet knowledge of this brutal deception, even within the Inner Party itself, could lead to the implosion of the State. Although Nineteen Eighty-Four is most famous for the Party's pervasive surveillance of everyday life, this control means that the population of Oceania –all of it and including the ruling elite – could be controlled and manipulated merely through the alteration of everyday thought and language. Newspeak is the method for controlling thought through language; doublethink is the method of directly controlling thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

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DOUBLETHINK AND CONTROLLING MEMORY

Earlier in the book, doublethink is explained as being able to control your memories, to be able to manually forget something, then to forget about forgetting. This is demonstrated by O'Brien, during the time when Winston Smith is being tortured toward the end of the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

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Controlling memory is as simple as controlling what goes into the brain for processing. If a person or corporation can manipulate the mass media and only let a given viewing or reading audience read, see and hear certain things, but not others, the result is the same as if MKULTRA had gone to work and manipulated memory using electroshock, drugs, hypnosis and chemicals like LSD.

The mass media globally is controlled for the most part by a small number of individuals at the head of huge globalist corporations. Their viewpoint is biased towards having people who watch the news or TV shows come to certain conclusions favorable to corporations and what they want to do. See mass media section for more details. 

REDEFINING WORDS AND MEANINGS IN GOVERNMENT

Newspeak incorporates doublethink, as it contains many words that create assumed associations between contradictory meanings, especially true of fundamentally important words such as good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, and justice and injustice.

In the case of workers at the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, doublethink means being able to falsify public records, and then believe in the new history that they themselves have just rewritten. As revealed in Goldstein's Book, the Ministry's name is itself an example of doublethink: the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies. The other ministries of Airstrip One are similarly named: the Ministry of Peace is concerned with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is concerned with starvation. The three slogans of the Party – War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength – are also examples.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

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DOUBLETHINK IN THE MASS MEDIA

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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fake-news-one-of-many-ways-programming.html

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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/05/via-operation-mockingbird-cia-is-now.html

Moreover, doublethink's self-deception allows the Party to maintain huge goals and realistic expectations: If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.

Thus each Party member could be a credulous pawn but would never lack relevant information, the Party being both fanatical and well informed and thus unlikely either to "ossify" or "grow soft" and collapse. Doublethink would avoid a "killing the messenger" attitude that could disturb the Command structure. Thus doublethink is the key tool of self-discipline for the Party, complementing the state-imposed discipline of propaganda and the police state. These tools together hide the government's evil not just from the people but from the government itself – but without the confusion and misinformation associated with primitive totalitarian regimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

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Since 1949 (when Nineteen Eighty-Four was published) the word doublethink has become synonymous with relieving cognitive dissonance by ignoring the contradiction between two world views – or even of deliberately seeking to relieve cognitive dissonance. Some schools of psychotherapy such as cognitive therapy encourage people to alter their own thoughts as a way of treating different psychological maladies (see cognitive distortions).

Orwell's "doublethink" is also credited with having inspired the commonly used term "doublespeak", which itself does not appear in the book. Comparisons have been made between doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language, in which "unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes".[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

EXAMPLE OF DOUBLETHINK IN AVERAGE PERSON 

Reporter comments how some people are stuck in doublethink, especially around the issue of nuclear radiation. Because the mass media does not talk about it, it is not 'normal' to think, talk or know anything about radiation. Thus, anyone who tries to talk about it is viewed with suspicion, alarm, and fear. Most people are in denial around anything to do with nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and the negative effect of nuclear radiation. 

Titantic and Costa Concordia - Example of Normalcy Bias In Fukushima Mega Disaster; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html

2014 - Tokyo, Japan Should Be Evacuated Says Dr Mita MD, Most Of Japan Radiation Contaminated After The Fukushima Mega Nuclear Disaster; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-is-it-safe-to-visit-or-live-in.html

DOUBLETHINK AND RELIGIONS

Extremist religions, fascist groups and cults are full of doublethink mixing politics with religion in many cases. True followers believe their own stories, despite them not having a shred of scientific proof. True believers often want a world that is controlled and directed by their chosen extreme form of religion/political mix, with everyone else either being killed via punishments spelled out in a holy book, Armageddon. Unbelievers are often wiped out via genocide or serve the 'chosen' ones as slaves with no rights, no votes and no control. 

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DOUBLETHINK - DRUGS, RADIATION MEDICINE AND FACTORY FOOD INDUSTRY

Much of the medical/drug/radiation/chemo/vaccine/flouride/GMO industry is made up of sociopathy. Profits come first, and everything else is used to justify using deadly, toxic and harm causing drugs, radiation, and chemo, for very high profits of course. 

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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/natural-health-drugs-medicine.html

DOUBLETHINK, SOCIOPATHS AND PSYCHOPATHS

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Online Disinformation Guidebook, And 12 Step Pro Nuclear Troll And Shill Recovery Program via @AGreenRoad
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Via CodeShutdown November 6, 2014  "a useful test that should be required for all people in positions of control, especially those pushing nuclear." How is that sense of smell doing? 

http://www.livescience.com/23350-psychopaths-have-poor-sense-of-smell-study-finds.html

Personality testing

http://personality-testing.info/tests/LSRP.php

DOUBLETHINK AND MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Truthiums And Factiums Made Illegal By Dr. Yamashita, Prime Minister Abe - Denial And Lies In Nuclear Industry Is The Norm; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/03/truth-telling-and-nuclear-radiation.html

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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/09/human-radiation-experiments-performed.html

Drugs, Medicine, GMO's, Education
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/natural-health-drugs-medicine.html

DOUBLETHINK AND NUCLEAR REGULATORS

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NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND DOUBLETHINK

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A Primer In The Art Of Deception; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html

DOUBLETHINK AND WARS

The US is also the LARGEST exporter and financier of death globally, via an arms trade that gets other nations ready for war and financing behind that pays for the wars. The US military industrial complex was the financier of choice for Hitler, and also provided him with much of the support he needed to grow and become a dominant war monger.

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Nuclear Bombs, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear War
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Henry Kissinger; Military Men Are Dumb Stupid Animals To Be Used As Pawns; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/07/henry-kissinger-military-men-are-dumb.html

Depleted Uranium (DU) Dangers And Effects On The Human Body, via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/depleted-uranium-effects-in-human-body.html

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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/12/beyond-treason-true-story-of-depleted.html

Depleted Uranium - Physicians For Social Responsibility; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/12/depleted-uranium-physicians-for-social.html

It is time to dismantle the military and turn it into a Peace Corp operation, to help build up the world and teach peace. It is time to beat weapons into plowshares and shovels. It is time to spread peace, and do away with war. Either we put away nuclear weapons and war, or the war mongering 1% will end up destroying the whole world and all life on it. There is no other choice. You are either for a MAD World War III by doing and saying nothing, or you are for peace, by voting against any candidate that is supported by corporations, speaking out and taking actions.

GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR HAS ALMOST STARTED OVER 20 TIMES

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DOUBLETHINK AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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$50 BILLION, 50 Yr. Old Nuclear Greenwashing Corporate Welfare Program; via @AGreenRoad
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Nuclear Accidents, Recycling Nuclear Weapons/Fuel
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Global Corporations And The 1%; Art And Science Of Deception
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons, Faux Media and Fraudulent Science; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html

DOUBLETHINK AND CORPORATIONS

The Entitlement Generation; Who Are They Really? via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-entitlement-generation-who-are-they.html

Art And Science Of Deception; Global Corporations And The 1%
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

Greenwashing; Fake 'Green' Products, Services And Industries; Misleading Half Truths And Public Manipulations
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/07/greenwashing-fake-green-products.html

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