Doublethink is necessary for survival from "summary" of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
To hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; to forget whatever needed to be forgotten, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. Doublethink lies at the very heart of the Party's philosophy. It is not merely the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, but the complete acceptance of both as equally valid. This is not a mental trick, but a moral necessity for survival in the world the Party has created. In a society where truth is what the Party says it is, where reality is constantly shifting to fit the Party's agenda, doublethink becomes the only way to navigate the trea...
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