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Edited on Mon Jun-08-09 02:36 PM by denem
Even if you lose you win - with apologies to George Orwell
The humblest grass roots organizer is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that they should be credulous and ignorant fanatics whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and triumphalism. In other words it is necessary that they have the mentality appropriate to a state of war.
It does not matter what war, or even whether the war is actually happening, as long as no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
The splitting of intelligence which this requires and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, becomes almost universal amongst adherents. The greater the divergence between belief and observation, the more urgent the desire for comprehensive victory.
And the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Leadership that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In the capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for an advocate to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and they may often be aware that an entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones.
Such knowledge is neutralized by the technique of doublethink.
Meanwhile no 20 percenter wavers for an instant in their mystical belief that the wars are real, and are bound to end victoriously, with a Righteous American Republic the undisputed master of the entire world.
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