I read George Pyle’s Nov. 18 column on “doublethink,” which comes from the book “1984.” In the article, he described doublethink, as it was used in the book, as the dangerous ability to support two completely opposite views on any subject at the same time.
I don’t even remember what group he was ragging on at the time, but it really doesn’t matter. To me what doublethink really means is that you will take any position that supports your thinking because if you’re thinking it, then it must be correct, and therefore any argument you put forth must be correct.
What was hilarious to me was that The Tribune’s editorial on the same page was explaining how some poor drug dealers who just happened to have guns on them when they were caught selling drugs were unduly punished, due to mandatory gun laws, as they weren’t hurting anyone with their guns.
You routinely run Bagley cartoons and articles that depict all legal gun owners as jack-booted Nazis and child murders who should be condemned by all right-thinking people. At the same time, you say gun-toting criminals are victims, you say law abiding gun owners are criminals.
I am not sure you meant for your editorial to be a graphic representation of doublethink, but it sure works.
Jeff Hoover, Farmington