Bipensiero orwelliano

source:www.art.cafepress.com

« [...] Raccontare deliberatamente menzogne ed allo stesso tempo crederci davvero, dimenticare ogni atto che nel frattempo sia divenuto sconveniente e poi, una volta che ciò si renda di nuovo necessario, richiamarlo in vita dall'oblio per tutto il tempo che serva, negare l'esistenza di una realtà oggettiva e al tempo stesso prendere atto di quella stessa realtà che si nega, tutto ciò è assolutamente indispensabile. [...] »

questa citazione di orwell in 1984, non vi ricorda vagamente qualcuno?

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"Absichtlich Lügen zu erzählen und aufrichtig an sie zu glauben; jede beliebige Tatsache zu vergessen die unbequem geworden ist, und dann, falls es wieder nötig ist, sie aus der Vergessenheit zurückzuholen; so lange wie nötig die Existenz einer objektiven Realität zu leugnen und gleichzeitig die Realität zu akzeptieren, die man verleugnet. Selbst der Gebrauch des Begriffes Doppeldenk macht die Verwendung des Doppeldenkens erforderlich. Denn schon alleine indem man diesen Begriff verwendet, räumt man ein, die Realität zu manipulieren. Durch eine erneute Anwendung des Doppeldenkens jedoch löscht man diese Erinnerung aus, so ist die Lüge der Wahrheit ohne Ende immer einen Schritt voraus."

erinnert diese definition des doppeldenk in orwell's 1984 nicht an jemanden?

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According to the novel, doublethink is:

"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 so 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."

Doesn't this quote about orwell's 1984 remind you of somebody?