VLVL2 4.15� "More is Less"�

[pynchonoid]

4.15  "More is Less" 

Doublethink.  War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. & etc.

"[...] Doublethink also lies behind the names of the
superministries which run things in Oceania - the
Ministry of Peace wages war, the Ministry of Truth
tells lies, the Ministry of Love tortures and
eventually kills anybody whom it deems a threat. If
this seems unreasonably perverse, recall that in the
present-day United States, few have any problem with a
war-making apparatus named "the department of
defence," any more than we have saying "department of
justice" with a straight face, despite well-documented
abuses of human and constitutional rights by its most
formidable arm, the FBI. Our nominally free news media
are required to present "balanced" coverage, in which
every "truth" is immediately neutered by an equal and
opposite one. Every day public opinion is the target
of rewritten history, official amnesia and outright
lying, all of which is benevolently termed "spin," as
if it were no more harmful than a ride on a
merry-go-round. We know better than what they tell us,
yet hope otherwise. We believe and doubt at the same
time - it seems a condition of political thought in a
modern superstate to be permanently of at least two
minds on most issues. Needless to say, this is of
inestimable use to those in power who wish to remain
there, preferably forever. [...] "
-Thomas Pynchon, Foreword to _1984_

(reading these messages in chronological order, sorry
if somebody already mentioned this)



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