Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Right-Thinking*
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.
The lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
*Orwell rearranged
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.
The lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
*Orwell rearranged
