W: “The need to treat everyone identically will — whatever its legal justification — lead to some bizarre and even absurd situations.”

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth… Those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is; in general the greater the understanding the greater the delusion; the more intelligent the less sane… There will be no thought as we understand it now; orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think; orthodoxy is unconsciousness… The heresy of heresies was common sense.” George Orwell, 1984