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'''Crimestop''' is a concept of [[Newspeak]], featured in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[1984]''. It denotes a learned mental discipline; a conditioned inability even to grasp thoughts contrary to one's own belief system.  

'''Crimestop''' is a concept of [[Newspeak]], featured in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[1984]]''. It denotes a learned mental discipline; a conditioned inability even to grasp thoughts contrary to one's own belief system.  

   

   

"''Crimestop'' means the faculty of stopping short, as though by [[instinct]], at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping [[analogy|analogies]], of failing to perceive [[logic]]al errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to [[Ingsoc]], and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a [[heretic|heretical]] direction. ''Crimestop'', in short, means protective stupidity." <ref>p. 220, 1984 - George Orwell, Penguin, 1989</ref>

"''Crimestop'' means the faculty of stopping short, as though by [[instinct]], at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping [[analogy|analogies]], of failing to perceive [[logic]]al errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to [[Ingsoc]], and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a [[heretic|heretical]] direction. ''Crimestop'', in short, means protective stupidity." <ref>p. 220, 1984 - George Orwell, Penguin, 1989</ref>