{"id":8432,"date":"2013-10-15T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/contemporary-liberal-doublethink-welfare-self-reliance\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T06:36:51","slug":"contemporary-liberal-doublethink-welfare-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/contemporary-liberal-doublethink-welfare-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Liberal Doublethink: Welfare = Self-Reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, what is doublethink?  We turn to George Orwell's 1984<\/em> and the following quotation therefrom reproduced in Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Part II, Chapter IX \u2014 The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This official website<\/a> is an excellent contemporary example of doublethink, from the State of Idaho, of all places.  (One expects PeeCee doublethink and newspeak in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts and in the once Golden State of Californication, but in Idaho, with all its Mormons and gun-totin' conservatives?  Holy moly, things are worse than I thought.)   At the State of Idaho website we read:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Self Reliance Office<\/span> 6\/2010 <\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Self Reliance office?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Self Reliance office is the portion of Idaho Health and Welfare where people can apply for state funded public assistance. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\n\"Obama<\/a><\/span><\/a>This is what we call an 'Orwellian' use of language.  It is language perverted and destroyed so as to serve leftist ideology and make clear thinking impossible.  Accordingly, one who accepts welfare via the State from productive citizens is 'self-reliant,' when in truth he is the exact opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Black is white, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and reliance on others is self-reliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Limited government is anarchism. <\/span><\/p>\n

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness = ObamaCare. (Idiot Pelosi accurately paraphrased.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiscal responsibility = fiscal irresponsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Semi-automatic rifle = fully- automatic rifle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Semi-automatic rifle used purely defensively = assault weapon.
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Constitutionally-mandated border control = xenophobia.  <\/span><\/p>\n

ID requirement at polling place = disenfranchisement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Critic of a black person's ideas = racist.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so on.  Continue the list and resolve to do your bit to resist and oppose the liberal-left scumbaggers.  It is your life, liberty and happiness that are at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, what is doublethink?  We turn to George Orwell's 1984 and the following quotation therefrom reproduced in Wikipedia: The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of … Continue reading “Contemporary Liberal Doublethink: Welfare = Self-Reliance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}