The on-line journal Palladium.com has published a 1950 essay by Carroll Quigley (1910-1977), best known to us as the author exposing the globalist agenda in Tragedy and Hope (1966), reviewing George Orwell’s 1984. The essay is entitled: “Epistemology, Semantics and Double Think.” The background here is that the 19th century was an age of optimism, belief in human progress and the goodness of man. But, the events of the 20th century, two horrendous wars, the communist revolutions, and today, the final war to come, have smashed this past optimism, so that the belief in the evil of man may be a dominant philosophical position. I am doubtful that this is correct, since today those of the World Economic Forum seem to have their own optimist based upon transhumanism and the idea that technology will change everything, and solve every problem. The same optimist is shared by the AI cult.
Nevertheless, Quigley makes some telling points about the evolution of doublethink, which we now live under, so he got that prediction spot on. However, as this essay was written in 1950, the paper appeared before the conceptual and political revolution that has been based around Marxism, and associated developments in the Left, such as postmodernism, deconstructionism, cultural studies, and feminism. Debates about what is a woman, arising from the transgender deconstruction of gender would have astonished the 1950s intellectuals, but this is common place today. Thus, we have moved beyond what Orwell predicted for 2050. That is how bad it is. The centre will not hold.