Re: CA HSR to use Pacheco Pass
- From: Hatunen <hatunen@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:55:18 GMT
honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to
forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes
necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is
needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to
take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably
necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise
doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with
reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on
indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately
it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able -- and may, for
all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years -- to arrest the
course of history.
All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they
ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant,
failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown;
or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have
used force, and once again were overthrown. They fell, that is to say,
either through consciousness or through unconsciousness. It is the
achievement of the Party to have produced a system of thought in which both
conditions can exist simultaneously. And upon no other intellectual basis
could the dominion of the Party be made permanent. If one is to rule, and
to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For
the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility
with the Power to learn from past mistakes.
It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doubl
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