“Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement.” Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) to Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1954)
(New York Times August 26, 2022) “Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/trump-search-republican-reactions.html
“As Donald Trump’s legal travails deepen, a strange split-screen effect has taken hold throughout the GOP. On one screen, Republicans are increasingly anxious about revelations involving Trump, while concocting ever more inventive ways to achieve distance from them.
On the other, GOP candidates in crucial midterm contests are, if anything, getting more Trumpy. They’re not just aggressively defending Trump; they’re also enthusiastically embracing the many pathologies he brought to our politics, and even imitating his mannerisms.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-mar-a-lago-republicans-anxious-midterm-elections/
In George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984, doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.
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“Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement.” Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) to Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1954)
(New York Times August 26, 2022) “Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/trump-search-republican-reactions.html
“As Donald Trump’s legal travails deepen, a strange split-screen effect has taken hold throughout the GOP. On one screen, Republicans are increasingly anxious about revelations involving Trump, while concocting ever more inventive ways to achieve distance from them.
On the other, GOP candidates in crucial midterm contests are, if anything, getting more Trumpy. They’re not just aggressively defending Trump; they’re also enthusiastically embracing the many pathologies he brought to our politics, and even imitating his mannerisms.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-mar-a-lago-republicans-anxious-midterm-elections/
In George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984, doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.