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- From: pindogu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:17:48 GMT
necessary to remember that events happened in the desired manner. And if it
is necessary to rearrange one's memories or to tamper with written records,
then it is necessary to forget that one has done so. The trick of doing
this can be learned like any other mental technique. It is learned by the
majority of Party members, and certainly by all who are intelligent as well
as orthodox. In Oldspeak it is called, quite frankly, 'reality control'. In
Newspeak it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else
as well.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in
one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party
intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he
therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise
of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The
process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient
precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a
feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart
of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious
deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete
honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to
forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes
necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is
needed, to deny the existence of object
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