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	Doublethink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doublethink is an integral concept in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and fervently believing both.
		Doublethink was a form of trained, willful blindness to contradictions in a system of beliefs.
		Doublethink thus functioned as a key tool of self-discipline for the Party, to complement the state-imposed discipline of propaganda and a police state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doublethink (860 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Doublethink
		Doublethink is a concept integral to George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and feverently believing both.
		Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
		Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Doublethink (2240 words)

	Webster, C. L. --- Doublethink of SCICOM
		In this area doublethink is interesting because of the many ways in which it is applied, and alarming because of the potential consequences arising from failure of the unsuspecting to understand that doublethink has been used.
		A classic example of SCICOM's exercise of doublethink is the use of spontaneous generation as the beginning of all life, while at the same time presenting data which prove beyond a doubt that spontaneous generation is impossible.
		Another example of the exercise of doublethink is the acceptance of a literal creation week while at the same time stating that the first few chapters of Genesis are allegorical.
	www.grisda.org /origins/13062.htm (490 words)

	[doublethink] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To understand and fully appreciate doublethink's directives, there must be an understanding of the foundation and laurels that the band prides itself on.
		doublethink will not follow the status quo as a means to generate popularity, garner more lavish reviews or to cater to the preconceived ideas of what a great rock band should be.
		Fans who come to know of doublethink via live performance will definitely not be disappointed by the band's studio efforts which effectively capture their live sound.
	www.doublethinkonline.com /newsite/bio.html (441 words)

	Newspeak:
		In practice it was not difficult for a person well grounded in Doublethink to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generation even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished.
		Doublethink is a kind of manipulation of the mind.
		When a person that is well grounded in Doublethink recognises a contradiction or a lie of the Party, then the person thinks that he is remembering a false fact.
	mural.uv.es /mabela/news+double.htm (1016 words)

	Doublethink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
		Ultimately, it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able - and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years - to arrest the course of history.
		It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating.
	home.sprintmail.com /~astronomer/documents/doublethink.htm (1307 words)

	Doublethink
		(Doublethink produces instances of doublespeak.) An understanding of doublespeak is useful, but the idea is not nearly as profound as doublethink, missing most of Orwell's subtle point.
		Doublethink refers to resolving contradictions which (otherwise) cannot be resolved, by keeping at least two alternate versions of something in mind at once, remembering only the approved one in any circumstance.
		Indeed, doublethink describes an internal conflict within the mind; it is even possible to follow doublethink with two things which do not really conflict practically, merely because one consciously and unconsciously believes it proper.
	www.promethea.org /Misc_Compositions/Doublethink.html (1248 words)

	The Ethics of DoubleThink: Language Rights and the Bilingual Education Debate
		The process of doublethink is very evident in the current debate in the United States on the merits or otherwise of bilingual education.
		The doublethink process here involves the simultaneous endorsement of (a) English-only immersion programs as the most promising option for bilingual students’ academic success because they provide maximum English exposure (time-on-task); and (b) two-way bilingual immersion programs that typically entail less English-medium and more L1 instruction than any other bilingual education option.
		Another example of doublethink on Rossell’s part is her endorsement of the “time-on-task” assumption while at the same time acknowledging in a commentary on the Ramirez (1992) report that "large deficits in English language instruction over several grades apparently make little or no difference in a student's achievement" (1992, p.
	www.iteachilearn.com /cummins/researchbildebate.html (3639 words)

	Doublethink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by afresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
		Though thenovel is most famous for its pervasive surveillance of daily life, Orwell also envisioned that the population could be controlledand manipulated through the alteration of everyday language and thought.
		Doublethink was a form of trained, wilful blindness to the contradictions inherent in a false system of beliefs.
	www.therfcc.org /doublethink-32765.html (270 words)

	Doublethink at Sigmapalooza - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Doublethink also has its own street team and bragging rights for performances at famous venues across the Northeast, including the main stage of The Webster Theatre in Hartford, Conn. and CBGB's in New York City.
		Doublethink has performed with different members since Brown was in high school, but has only existed with its current line-up since 2005.
		Doublethink is coming to perform at Villanova as part of Sigma Nu's Sigmapalooza.
	media.www.villanovan.com /media/storage/paper581/news/2006/03/24/Entertainment/Doublethink.At.Sigmapalooza-1713413.shtml?sourcedomain=www.villanovan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (441 words)

	Mary Louise -- The New Freedom: Old Orwellian Doublethink
		Behind the Bushonian slogan, "The New Freedom", is a very scary agenda, that exemplifies Orwellian doublethink and should rightfully be called "The New Slavery" instead, as it goes well beyond mandatory mental health screening and disguises the implementation of full-blown tyranny.
		Doublethink, or reality control, involves being aware of truthfulness, while at the same time professing carefully devised lies and believing both, as our so-called leaders aptly demonstrate.
		That is doublethink; to be conscious of something, but also unconscious of it, to tell a deliberate lie but believe it as truth, and to forget inconvenient facts but remember them when needed.
	www.newswithviews.com /guest_opinion/guest32.htm (3074 words)

	The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary.
		Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able -- and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years -- to arrest the course of history.
		The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century.
	www.newspeakdictionary.com /go-goldstein.html (9591 words)

	Doublethink over Iraq - (Practical Dreamers Drop-In Centre) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His concept of "doublethink", for example, is even more relevant today than it was in 1949, when 1984 was first published.
		For example, he knows that he was President Ronald Reagan's special envoy to Iraq back in the early 1980s (when Saddam Hussein was at war with the Islamic Republic of Iran) and that he strongly advised the Reagan Administration to back President Saddam's regime with large quantities of military equipment.
		That the secretary is able to believe fervently in the morality of both positions only underscores "doublethink's" extraordinary political utility.
	www.dunedinmethodist.org.nz /just/orwl.html (551 words)

	Trinity - February 6, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Doublethink" is a concept I have heard over and over again in recent years within the church.
		Something like doublethink is probably what we are dealing with today in the church.
		There it was: the power of "doublethink" to exercise power, the power of "facing both ways".
	www.tesm.edu /deans-corner/dcchurch/doublethink (860 words)

	Politics \| The duo of doublethink
		Friday's performance at the White House rose garden was a display of the technique so virtuosic, requiring such intellectual gymnastics, the pair should take their show on tour in a political Cirque du Soleil.
		These are examples of doublethink to rival Bremer's exquisite remark to an American interviewer earlier this month that the Iraqi resistance is made up of people who "think that power in Iraq should come out of the barrel of a gun.
		There will be some who believe this is not doublethink so much as plain dishonesty, that Blair and Bush know they are wrong, but aim to deceive.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4906397-107865,00.html (1222 words)

	Polyarchy Documents : Doublethink
		But it means also the ability to believe that fl is white, and more, to know that fl is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.
		This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by a system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink." (p.
		Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty." (p.
	www.polyarchy.org /documents/doublethink.html (583 words)

	List of All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Oldspeak it is called, quite frankly, "reality control." In Newspeak, it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else as well.
		Simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it does this in the name of socialism.
		The subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating.
	www.artpolitics.com /en-us/p_125.html (525 words)

	Doublethink
		With a longstanding interest in moving images, computers and partying, Doublethink (Matt Gallop) used this combination of talents to perform at parties and clubs as a VJ.
		Knowing a good thing when he saw it, Doublethink wasted no time in securing an early copy of Vjamm and took it into nightclubs and parties, experimenting with this cutting edge technology as Camart developed it.
		Together with DJ Christina C he was responsible for developing the 'Experiments Show' which mixed the best of the emerging breakbeat scene with unique, state of the art computer generated video and audio performances.
	www.cupoftearecords.co.uk /doublethink.htm (290 words)

	The Philosophy of Doublethink by Rick Weires ... Asbury House Publishing
		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 (Orwell [1949] 1983, 176–177).
		Doublethink the philosophy takes the obvious logical steps no other sensible or educated person has ever taken.
		Doublethink turns on itself, allowing lies with distortions; indeed, it thrives upon them.
	www.bookmasters.com /marktplc/rr01390.htm (2169 words)

	Orwellian Doublethink In London
		The first instance of doublethink we happened upon in London concerned the masses of surveillance cameras that have gone up everywhere.
		It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
		By far not the final instance of Doublethink we encountered came as we interviewed the lady who runs the fruit stall outside Stockwell Underground Station, where the innocent Brazilian electrician was chased down and shot 8 times.
	infowars.net /Pages/Aug05/040805Doublethink.htm (1881 words)

	Orwell's Warning: Doublethink
		Ultimately, it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able-- and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years-- to arrest the course of history." (p.
		A man thoroughly bludgeoned with doublethink would therefore be crippled into a state of intellectual paralysis, unable to criticize his overlords' misdeeds because he sees not the identity of such atrocities nor the side of the multi-faceted Party ideology from which they sprout their roots.
		The doublethink mentality, antithetical to the intellect and, therefore, to thought, must therefore be conveyed by the orthodoxy to the populace through other means.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/891403/posts (3478 words)

	Doublethink In 1984 Free Essays
		Orwell describes doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” In 1984, doublethink is the normal way of thought, and as a result everyone understands it and practices it.
		Doublethink is different from changing ones mind, lying, and self-deception in many ways.
		The reason it is not doublethink is that you do not believe in two different beliefs at one time.
	www.netessays.net /viewpaper/11152.html (244 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Triumph of doublethink in 2003
		There is doublethink going on now as Oceania (the US and Britain) prepares for war against Iraq.
		We know that our government changed their own guidelines in order to sell Saddam the ingredients of any weapons of mass destruction he may or may not now have.
		If we don't, we are in for another awful round of victories over our own memories and of doublethink.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,867153,00.html (899 words)

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	Orwellian Doublethink in War against Terror - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Sure, there are no doubt many layers of doublethink and assumptions which are doublethoughts but there is a fertile field of really glaring examples of doublethink happening daily on this forum.
		For example, if anyone condemns the use of torture, or arbitrary detention in the war on terror, that person is sure to get responses to the effect that they are taking the terrorists side, or claiming that the terrorists are good in comparison to the U.S; this is an example of the straw man tactic.
		The word actually never appears in that novel; Orwell did, however, coin newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink, and his novel made fashionable composite nouns with speak as the second element, which were previously unknown in English.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread160690/pg1 (3222 words)

	Newspeak Dictionary
		An excellent example of doublethink in modern society is the war on drugs.
		In order for a person to be effective at doublethink, they must master the art of crimestop.
		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.
	www.newspeakdictionary.com /ns-dict.html (4692 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| NewsandViews \| LibertyBeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet doublethink is common among the left, too.
		A particularly irritating manifestation of this is when self-pious leftists preach tolerance and diversity and then display bigotry against select segments of the populace.
		To such leftists, bigotry and doublethink are the means used to achieve authoritarianism.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/042105/libertybeat.html (750 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink." Commentary: After nearly 22 years in the cult, I came away puzzled how I could know the truth and think otherwise.
		Yes and no. It is doublethink, right out of "1984." And if you tell them this, they will doublethink their way out of it as self-protection.
		As one moves up the Scientology ladder of command, this is how one begins to think and if one doesn't think this way, one does not move up the ladder.
	www.factnet.org /Scientology/Robert_Vaughn_Young/19970827_The_Scn_1984_Parallel_Doublethink.txt (312 words)

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