gimpled

  The doublethink of the disability sector just astounds me.  In case you don't know about that book...there is a book by George Orwell called 'Nineteen Eighty Four' .  Lots of people will have read it. It's a book that was written almost 70 years ago.  The book was about this society which was run by 'the Party' - this grey, awful, brainwashed society where everything you did was watched by the government (the Party), where everything was strictly rationed, where your thoughts were controlled by propaganda, where independent thought and action or a perceived lack of loyalty was swiftly and brutally punished.  And then there was double-think.  Doublethink was a word that Orwell invented. The characters in the book had to learn doublethink to be regarded as a 'good Party member' - if you ever deviated from what the government was saying, it was akin to blasphemy. People who disagreed with the 'party line' were shunned. ...