Tämä on George Orwellin (Eric Blairin) kirjasta 1984, ja se kuvastaa mielestäni TÄYDELLISESTI kreationistien ja uskonnollisten fundamentalistien mentaliteettia ja mielenmaisemaa. Pätkässä päähenkilö Winston Smith selittää käsitettä "kaksoisajattelu" eli "doublethink".
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled 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."
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled 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."
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Vanhimmat
ja vaikka Orwell puhui ilmeisesti politiikasta, tuo pätee melkein vielä paremmin kressuihin.
Mitäs vieralla kielellä kirjoitat. Ko. kirja on suomennettu vuosikymmeniä sitten. Kirjoita suomeksi, pahvi.
Yleissivistys, siihen kuuluu englanti.
HOHHOHOHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHHEEEE,vai niin ?
Tulee mieleen juttu pukista kaalimaan vartijana,
se mikä pätee materialistisosialisteihin ei
välttämättä pidä paikkansa kaikkien muiden
ryhmien kanssa. Lueppa Dawkinsia veli hyvä, ja
puhu sen jälkeen fundamentalismista ja fanatis-
mista.