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Today we see financial and environmental disaster facing the whole world, human trafficking on a global scale, family breakdown at unprecedented levels and wars being fomented by cynical profiteers. In the so-called democratic West, we see democracy being gradually eroded by vested interests manipulating the electoral system and people being prosecuted for thought crimes. The images of society painted by George Orwell in his books Animal Fa...

George Orwell's book 'Nineteen-Eighty Four' describes a fictional world in which the manipulation of human thought by the political system has become so pervasive that the people involved in the manipulation do not realize how indoctrinated they have become. Orwell describes doublethink as "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believ...