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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 01:56 PM Jan 2017

I just heard the most wonderful news!!

Dear Leader has just announced on Twitter that the chocolate ration has been increased to twenty grammes a week!!!

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?
It seems that "1984" was an instruction manual after all.
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I just heard the most wonderful news!! (Original Post) GliderGuider Jan 2017 OP
When you've been dumbed down for decades what is so surprising now? BSdetect Jan 2017 #1
That's one of the reasons why they have high school kids read "1984," but Nay Jan 2017 #2
A brief glossary of lies pscot Jan 2017 #3

Nay

(12,051 posts)
2. That's one of the reasons why they have high school kids read "1984," but
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:44 PM
Jan 2017

so many kids don't get anything out of it then and don't get anything out of it in adulthood, either. It's just another damn book they are forced to read, and they discard it and other information as soon as they are out of school.

pscot

(21,024 posts)
3. A brief glossary of lies
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 02:56 PM
Jan 2017

With a generous assist from Wikipedia:


Alternative Facts: Lies that benefit and justify Donald Trump

Bad Faith: As defined by Sartre, "bad faith" is lying to oneself

The Barefaced Lie: (or bald-faced) lie is one that is obviously a lie to those hearing it.

The Big Lie: When the lie is of sufficient magnitude it may succeed, due to the victim's reluctance to believe that an untruth on such a grand scale would indeed be concocted.

Bluffing: is an act of deception that is rarely seen as immoral when it takes place in the context of a game, such as poker, where this kind of deception is consented to in advance by the players.

Bullshit: may be either true or false, but demonstrates a lack of concern for the truth which is likely to lead to falsehoods.

The Lie Contextual: One can state part of the truth out of context, knowing that without complete information, it gives a false impression

The Cover-up: may be used to deny, defend or obfuscate one's own (or one's allies or group's) errors, one's embarrassing actions or lifestyle, and/or one's previous lie

The Lie Defamatory: Defamation is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation

The Lie Deflective: avoiding the subject that the lie is about, not giving attention to the lie.

Disinformation: Intentionally false or misleading information that is spread in a calculated way to deceive target audience

Exaggeration: Exaggeration occurs when the most fundamental aspects of a statement are true, but only to a certain degree. It is also seen as "stretching the truth"

Fabrication: a statement presented as truth, without knowing for certain whether or not it actually is true

The Fib: An innocuous lie, such as children resort to; aka "a slippery slope"

Fraud: The act of inducing another person or people to believe a lie in order to secure material or financial gain for the liar.

The Lie Jocose (cf. jocular): Lies meant in jest, intended to be understood as such by all present parties. Teasing and irony are examples. A more elaborate instance is seen in some storytelling traditions, where the storyteller's insistence that the story is the absolute truth, despite all evidence to the contrary (i.e., tall tale), is considered humorous.

The Lie Commercial: The seller of a product or service may advertise untrue facts about the product or service in order to gain sales, especially by competitive advantage. See fraud.

Memory Hole: A mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records

Minimization: The opposite of exaggeration; a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible. A favorite of AGW deniers.

Misleading and dissembling: While there is no outright lie, the statement still retains the purpose of getting someone to believe in an untruth

The Noble Lie: A noble lie, which also could be called a strategic untruth, is one that would normally cause discord if uncovered, but offers some benefit to the liar and assists in an orderly society, therefore, potentially beneficial to others. It is often told to maintain law, order and safety.

The Pathological Lie: also called compulsive lying, pseudologia fantastica and mythomania, is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying.

Perjury: The act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law, or in any of various sworn statements in writing.

The Lie Polite: AKA the Butler's Lie; mommy's resting (drunk before noon again).

The Lie Equivocal: Weasel words
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