I'm reading the book, 1984. Brilliant stuff. But seriously, ot scared me...
And Dumb Lem, how the zark does getting stung by a wasp/bee/whatever prove the principles of Ingsoc wrong? o.O
Longstory made (sorta) short: friend says this: "if you don't think the wasp will sting you, it won't" then goes on to explain how he believes in this thing that he describes and says it's what he believes in. He also explained how he believed in things that made 'his own reality' as if what happened to me in my reality could differ from his even if we were standing right next to eachother(now that I've read the book 1984, I know that this is exactly the same as doublethink, what he described is the same anyways). I find many things VERY flawed about this method of thinking and prove him wrong by believing that the wasp wouldn't sting me if I didn't provoke it. I believed that, I've always believed that, I still believe that a wasp won't sting you if you don't provoke it, but did I get stung? YES!! OUCH!!!
Now that I think of it, Big Brother could use this anonymous friend of mine as a role model to the rest of the party members in 1984. I wonder if he (EDIT: the friend, I mean) sees anything wrong with putting talking cameras in.̆ :shocked:
I'm taking a survey that uses Socratic method to try to convince people that doublethink is a true thing, and that it can be used and stuff, basically, I tried to see if I could make the takers of the survey into orthodox party members for a bit. I did NOT think this would work, but as it turns out, I was able to convince my math teacher that if humans didn't exist, the past would not have happened. The only reason the
principles of ingsoc are of concern to me in relation to what's going on in Middleborough is becuase I read an article. A few in fact, people in London were interviewed, and the questions were asked to find out one thing: how many people are already well versed in doublethink and believe in the principles of ingsoc unwittingly. Surprisingly many, a tad over half of the people interviewed from what I saw. again: :shocked:
If people can actually believe in something so nonsensical as doublethink, then I think it may actually be possible to create Oceania in the real world...spooky. personally, I don't think anything's going to arise from these cameras, in fact I think it's good for everyone to reread 1984 every once in awhile as long as the threat isn't serious, lest we should go the same way the Romans did militarily: ignorant due to long disuse of it.
One last thing: who's Gordon Brown? Sorry, i'm not really caught up on politics in England.