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The illustration of chess or jungle warfare is quite applicable to Party politics. “He said that all the divisions, the halter-shelter overlaps and apparent lack of logic, were intended to mislead and to create walls of separation among the agents, as well as keeping them…ignorant of the structure in general and each others’ activities and identities.”

“Teachers make a fatal mistake when they find something partially true and ride it exclusively.”

“The question to ask is, what did you not want to know? I suppose for many Germans thirty years ago, the answer would have been, ‘I don’t want to know where all those people are going in those trains.’…because they did not want to know, turning their minds to more pleasant things, including what the regime promised for the future.”

Applies to cults and Marxism. “I came to believe that the control of information needed to be about more than simply keeping information secret. It needed to be about creating an alternative reality, providing a convincing narrative…The second thing I was convinced of…was the importance of snob appeal to the revolution”.