[ViktorRay]

When George Orwell wrote 1984 it wasn’t just the Soviet Union he was criticizing.

He was also satirizing some of the most absurd parts of British political culture too. Doublethink wasn’t just part of Soviet political culture. It was part of British political culture and clearly still is based on what you just posted.

[FirmwareBurner]

There's a reason 1984, V for Vendetta and all such stories come from the UK.

[refulgentis]

Soviet doublethink?

Is this holding two ideas in your head at the same time, or holding contradictory ideas in your head at the same time?

[irthomasthomas]

I heard Russel Brand once say something like the mark of an intelligent man is the ability to hold two conflicting ideas. And then I remembered his first TV job as Big Brother's Big Mouth!

[latexr]

That’s a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/05/intelligence/

[ndsipa_pomu]

However, holding two conflicting ideas and not even realising the contradictions is a mark of a brainwashed individual.

[throwawayoldie]

I imagine he was probably still pretty salty about the whole Gollancz/Homage to Catalonia thing.