From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  wrote:   
      
   > The saddest part is, I expect you will just cheerfully   
   > concede that [not-A]. All in the name of supporting and   
   > defending [A].   
   >   
      
   >   
   > But have you finally no sense of irony?   
      
      
   "It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of   
   victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in   
   Newspeak, 'doublethink'.   
      
   "'Stand easy!' barked the instructress, a little more genially.   
      
   "Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with   
   air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world 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 cancelled 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."   
      
   (from chapter 3)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)