Orwell's doublethink definition is 'reality control', among other slogans: Ignorance is Strength.
Back in 2022, Noam Chomsky pointed out a fundamental contradiction in rhetoric around NATO/Russia/Ukraine.
1. Russia is a powerful threat to all of Europe and if succeeds in Ukraine it will invade other European countries’
2. Ukraine is on the verge of defeating Russia, which is clearly a paper tiger, and European military support can help it achieve that victory.
These are evidently contradictory, since if Russia struggled to defeat Ukraine, it cannot be a threat to the better-equipped European countries that are protected by NATO and nuclear treaties.
As he also suggested then, the fact that two such obviously contradictory positions can remain simultaneously influential — even being used unchallenged by the very same people — is a sign of the effectiveness of propaganda and the failure of democratic institutions.
"Puzzlement is Russia a Paper Tiger or an awesome military machine"
Hvala ti Biljana na ovom izuzetnom clanku. Thank you for the wonderful and timely essey. Its a long overdue wake up call
Orwell's doublethink definition is 'reality control', among other slogans: Ignorance is Strength.
Back in 2022, Noam Chomsky pointed out a fundamental contradiction in rhetoric around NATO/Russia/Ukraine.
1. Russia is a powerful threat to all of Europe and if succeeds in Ukraine it will invade other European countries’
2. Ukraine is on the verge of defeating Russia, which is clearly a paper tiger, and European military support can help it achieve that victory.
These are evidently contradictory, since if Russia struggled to defeat Ukraine, it cannot be a threat to the better-equipped European countries that are protected by NATO and nuclear treaties.
As he also suggested then, the fact that two such obviously contradictory positions can remain simultaneously influential — even being used unchallenged by the very same people — is a sign of the effectiveness of propaganda and the failure of democratic institutions.
"Puzzlement is Russia a Paper Tiger or an awesome military machine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNbJAj7YdA