Posted by Doug [Keflar] on April 05, 1999 at 10:19:22 {6.uz.4vynMCuspFhnTUgvhKqcjatLo}:
In Reply to: Nobody Notices posted by tobor on April 05, 1999 at 08:49:30:
"Millions of people all over the world will read and carefully study the WT. article on Ezekiel without ever thinking "those prophesies made to those exiles were never fufilled!"
And if they DO think about it, and DO question it, guess what happens in their minds? It's called "Thoughtcrime."
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." - "1984", p. 27
And if they DO think about it and grimace when its lack of fulfillment is ignored when it is discussed at the WT study, it is called "Facecrime."
"The smallest look could give you away...In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called." p. 54
No, if they DO think about it, they DON'T question it. They forget about it. That is called "Crimestop."
"Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity." - p 175
Doug