doublethink

cashmcall

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Doublethink is in operation today... It made me think, what doublethink are we as a culture using now? Here are a few I can think of, but I would like anyone to point out more...

Debt is wealth. (We must spend to save, borrowing from China and spending and racking up debt stimulates the economy, etc.)

Murder is a human right and it is a violation of human rights when it is not allowed. (Abortion)

You have to abandon the free market to save it.

In order to share the fruits of living under a government which is ruled by law with other countries's people we must abandon the law and take away the consequences for breaking it. (Amnesty)

Big government grants us rights by creating new laws and as such increases liberty and freedom. (Healthcare take-over, economic take-overs, telling us how much salt we can consume, etc.) Government doesn't actually create any rights, only legislation which has the net effect of diminishing rights when it goes beyond its original purpose of securing natural God-given rights.)

Equality comes by placing one group above another. (Affirmative Action)

Being wealthy is evil and the wealthy should pay for their success through higher tax rates. (And yet success is good and supposed to be desirable.) We are taught to hate them and to want to become them all at the same time.
Conservatives who promote equal freedom from all forms of oppression are dangerous fascists who want to control us. We all know who the dangerous people are and which side they belong to: The Neo-National Socialists, the underground infiltrating Commies, the Hollywood elite who love dictators and say we misunderstand Hitler, the murderous eugenicists, the subversive professors, etc.

War maintains the peace. (And yet it is the antithesis of peace.)
The threat of a larger opponent defending himself can maintain the peace. Weakness can produce war by creating vulnerability. It's wise to maintain strong defensive power, but war is not peace and doesn't produce peace.

There is no absolute truth. Then how can you assert that so absolutely without undermining your own argument?

We need to shut down FOX News and Breitbart.com in order to have a free press.

There is no reality but what we perceive. That will be on a very real midterm- Don't miss it or your reality will suck.

If I don't pay attention to politics then I can't be hurt by them.
Of course you can and your willful ignorance makes the hurt inevitable because silence is considered consent and ignorance is weakness.
 
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If I don't pay attention to politics then I can't be hurt by them

Isn't that the truth. I've watched several of those man on the street interviews, and it's appalling how clueless Americans are.
 
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