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Perhaps most voted before they realized they were voting for insanity.
Maybe, but that wouldn't explain the recent spike in the poll (if we assumed new people voting read the thread.)
Or maybe they disagree that it's insanity and delusion. Just because the two of you are so convinced, doesn't mean everyone else is.
delusion de·lu·sion (dÄ-l&oomacr;'zhÉ™n)
n.
A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
If you can trick yourself using doublethink to assent to the truth of two contradictory beliefs by conveniently forgetting or rearranging facts, then you are by definition being delusional.
If anyone declares his or her belief, then they must be either fooling themselves or they simply misunderstand the entire thing. And because of how some people talk about contradictions not being contradictions after all, I suspect it's the latter.
Yes .
I've always thought that Orwell meant doublethink to be a byword or synonymn for hypocrisy or ideologically motivated lying?
So when he demonstrates that two contradictory ideas are held and doublethink is the means it is supposed to simply mean that there is political lying and intellectual concepts are invented to get people to believe those lies.
Yes.