Quatermass wrote:
Anyone who says they do not have double standards in one way or another is either a hypocrite or a fluke
Well most people aren't perfect in every way but again, many people still attempt to be the best they can.
Quatermass wrote:
Anyone here ever heard of doublethink? From Nineteen Eighty-Four? It's not dissimilar to having double standards. Doublethink is defined as being able to hold two contradictory notions in mind, and accepting them both, sometimes simultaneously....
Yes, I have read the book, it is quite good but not my favourite of the dystopian type novels (I prefer farenheit 451, brave new world and some others). The concept of double think doesn't originate entirely from Orwell, it had been discussed in various forms by Spinoza, Kant and others prior to Orwell.