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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
In this respect, the new programs are heirs to a long lineage in which
the social support provided by welfare states has been linked to normalizing projects aimed at the working class, projects that both envisaged and (sometimes, in some partial mea sure) helped to create a world where “able- bodied” men of an appropriate age could be assumed to be in waged employment while serving as “breadwinners” charged with providing for an associated set of “dependents” such as wife and children.
Give a Man a Fish
James Ferguson
Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life. But it is precisely the young who propose ideas that are fragile, not because they are young, but because most unseasoned ideas are fragile. And, of course, someone who sells “futuristic” ideas will not make a lot of money selling the value of the past! New technology is easier to hype up.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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