Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.
From the Times Argus via the AP
About 190 art-house theaters have banded together to show the 1984 big-screen adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece as a pointed comment on the presidency of Donald Trump, whose “alternative facts” administration has already sent “1984” back up the bestseller lists .
“It’s what’s in the air. People want to do something,” says Dylan Skolnick, an organizer of the event and co-director of the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York. “This started with a conversation about: We need to do something. Well, what do we do? We show movies. So the obvious answer was: We should show a movie
Cinemas around the country are increasingly programming with political protest in mind, playing movies that have newfound resonance for those who disagree with the policies of the Republican president. In May, some 60 theaters are planning to screen films from the predominantly Muslim nations targeted by Trump’s proposed travel ban. That initiative has been dubbed the Seventh Art Stand and billed as “an act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia.
Liberals and Progressives have rediscovered George Orwell.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell
“Alternate facts administration”, they say. So what is “fake news“, it’s news that’s just to good to check.
When you see the sign “Love Trumps Hate” you can bet that the holder is chock full of the latter.
The entire Obama Presidency was “Orwellian”, not to them of course.
It seems that most of our college campuses have turned into Animal Farms with their speech codes
And we can’t go without a little two minuet hate.
“Alternative facts” was the lefts trigger word that invoked the Orwell comparisons.
They have no clue that Orwell was most emphatically describing them.
Projection.