Monday, December 2, 2024

James Perloff - Donald Trump and Orwell’s Doublethink

Sage of Quay Blog

[Source] In George Orwell’s 1984, one of the totalitarian government’s methods of controlling people was “doublethink.” “Doublethink,” Orwell wrote, “means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

I believe the Deep State today is carrying out a variation of doublethink.

False flags and Doublethink

The Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013 occurred shortly after concerns had been voiced in Congress about the Patriot Act and the overreaching Department of Homeland Security. After all, no significant terror attack attributed to Muslims had occurred on American soil since 9/11, twelve years earlier. For the Boston Marathon, fakery was widely discussed in alt media. Dr. Stan Monteith, MD, and Dr. Lorraine Day, former Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, both believed the official story was fraudulent. The most iconic photograph emerging from the incident was of a young man, his legs partly missing below the knees and said to be tied with tourniquets. However, myself being a registered nurse, I immediately recognized that a person with legs partially blown off should have been transported, not by wheelchair, legs down, but by stretcher, legs up, to minimize bleeding. Furthermore, the young man, who should have been in overwhelming pain, looked mostly concerned about whether he might fall from the rapidly moving wheelchair. There was much speculation that he was a crisis actor, already a double amputee, hired to role-play. A female actress appeared to be playing two different parts in CNN’s coverage; there was the police announcing “This is a drill” immediately before the explosion, and much more.

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