JP'S Dystopic Journal: The Thought Police

Ep 11 The Left has gotten some people to believe some ridiculous things, including many fallacies like the Russia collusion hoax, and that men can have babies. They'll believe these things despite all reason and logic. What's this purpose of them promoting falsehood? How do they perpetuate such beliefs? Orwell had some ideas and wrote them into his novel, 1984.

"A party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a skeptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline. The fist and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity. But stupidity is not enough." --George Orwell, the novel 1984