O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature’… ‘What are the stars?’ said O’Brien indifferently. ‘They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it’… ‘For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?’
the Orwellian culture has been embraced by certain people in Washington. We must oust this, and very soon…..the disillusioned rabble , we can only hope, arejust beginning to open their very sleepy eyes to what they have created
The religious fervor of “the masses” who believe that people are causing climate change is another example. Yet the claim that "thousands of climate scientists agree about AGW is not true.
“In 2014, Bart Verheggen of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency surveyed 1,868 climate scientists. They found that, consistent with other research, the level of agreement on anthropogenic causation correlated with expertise – 90% of those surveyed with more than 10 peer-reviewed papers related to climate (just under half of survey respondents) explicitly agreed that greenhouse gases was the main cause of global warming.”
Just under half of 1868 = 932 – 90% of 932 scientists = 839 a far cry from the “thousands (or ALL) of scientists agree” that is bandied about.
InquireWithin over 7 years ago
O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature’… ‘What are the stars?’ said O’Brien indifferently. ‘They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it’… ‘For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?’
Nighthawks Premium Member over 7 years ago
the Orwellian culture has been embraced by certain people in Washington. We must oust this, and very soon…..the disillusioned rabble , we can only hope, arejust beginning to open their very sleepy eyes to what they have created
cabalonrye over 7 years ago
So lemmings are always right?
Gameguy49 Premium Member over 7 years ago
The religious fervor of “the masses” who believe that people are causing climate change is another example. Yet the claim that "thousands of climate scientists agree about AGW is not true.
“In 2014, Bart Verheggen of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency surveyed 1,868 climate scientists. They found that, consistent with other research, the level of agreement on anthropogenic causation correlated with expertise – 90% of those surveyed with more than 10 peer-reviewed papers related to climate (just under half of survey respondents) explicitly agreed that greenhouse gases was the main cause of global warming.”
Just under half of 1868 = 932 – 90% of 932 scientists = 839 a far cry from the “thousands (or ALL) of scientists agree” that is bandied about.
car2ner over 7 years ago
So he is Identifying with a person who has already tidied up his room. At least he is not stalling using the same old stale techniques.
banjinshiju over 7 years ago
I think the old name for what he is doing to his mother is “Gaslighting”.