"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war (p.192)."
"It is also that no change of doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted. For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness (p. 213)."
Makes one wonder if some of the inspiration for the Bush White House has been from the "pages" of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein.
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