...painful, and obvious truths regarding the extent/scale and ruthlessness of the criminality of our own government that a fairly large subset of our citizenry irrationally simply refuses to acknowledge?
And if so, do you think the paragraph below is a reasonable explanation for it? In other words, is it
crimestop?This was the commentary of Rawstory poster, Stewart:
http://www.rawstory.com/comments/43848.htmlJonathan Schwartz quotes George Orwell, whose main points, especially in 1984 are glaringly relevant today: A Party member…is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline…called, in Newspeak, 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.Here's Wiki's treatment of the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimestop