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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as tho
by temphn 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#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.
The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous
thought presented itself. The process should be automatic,
instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He
presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the
earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than
water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not
understanding the arguments that contradicted them.
- mikeash 13y agoWhat is the relevance of this quote?
- ehmish 13y agoI take it you're getting at people avoiding thinking about the thought that race might be correlated with intelligence, lest they become an awful person. And it's a fair criticism. At the same time however, it has been noted that people have a subjective bias against people not of their own race.
- wonderzombie 13y agoRace is absolutely a factor, but only insofar as white people enslaved black people, then legislated them into second class citizenship. Post-1960s, I guess we're on to blaming them (hence the stupid & lazy stereotype) because we think they should've gotten over it & recovered by now.
- thowawayanother 13y agoI wonder what terrible things Asians did to whites such that they earn higher income, commit fewer crimes, and do better in schools than whites while living in historically white countries.
- wonderzombie 13y agoThis is a complete non-sequitur. It was only until very recently that whites have begun to approach anything less than a majority. ETA: likewise, Asians have not been in charge of the US for the majority of its history. In fact, they have typically been subject to whites' dominance. The WWII Japanese internment camps are a case in point. But I get the sense that you're not really interested in exploring the complexity of different race relations as you are discounting said complexity with a trivially false equivalence.