Have you ever been accused of "wrongthink"?

Happens quite a lot, though I'm at the point in life where I can just ignore those people. No one ideology, religion, or group is immune to having their preferred thought rules, so nobody can really say, "Well it's the other group that does it! Not mine!" Logic and emotions get so closely tied together that people forget how to tell them apart.

Best to just let it go and let those people live in their miserable worlds.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

"Wrongthink"?

Never heard of it until I saw your question, but I grant you there are plenty who regard their opinions as somehow superior to all others, and act as if wanting those others suppressed.

It may be a clumsy slang word but it eerily reflects one of the tenets of George Orwell's novel [i]1984[/i], by which the regime's "Ministry of Truth" spent its time shrinking the language to a minimal vocabulary with clumsy portmanteau words.

Not "wrongthink" but jargon rather like it, and with the same aim - to suppress questioning, opinion and debate.

pattycakechamp · 26-30, F

@ArishMell If you look around, a current meme is that people are warning others that 1984 was a warning, not a manual.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@pattycakechamp I had not noticed that, but I take your point!

In fact I had never thought the novel was any more than a work of fiction, but it was prescient in some respects.

Well, we know the novel's three [i]blocs[/i], in never-ending war, were all rigid dictatorships run by anonymous committees helped by powerful surveillance and propaganda departments. Ironical indeed that the principles of its "Newspeak" and "Thought Police" are reflected in some behaviour on today's social-media that are supposed to support and encourage freedom of thought and speech, not destroy it.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

How many fingers Winston?

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pattycakechamp · 26-30, F

@SW-User Logic is rather boring, while emotions illicit a sense of energy and belonging. In a perfect world, they wouldn't have to blend, but they do. And logic becomes "logic".

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