Re:The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
by collyw on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:47AM
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That sounds like the definition of doublethink in Orwell's 1984.
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Re:The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
by wickawic on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:13AM
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It does sound like it on the surface, but doublethink was about the ability to think something was both true and false. What Fitzgerald was more likely getting at was the ability to assess and appreciate different choices and/or ideologies simultaneously.