DOUBLETHINK in Newspeak

• Guest Post from 'Jay' Personell Liberties.com "Pictures worth a buck or two"
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• Rationally Explaining Why the Liberal Left (primarily, but not limited to, Democratic Party) thinks and acts like it does. ... '1984' Orwellian...{Oceana}...logic)
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•  From one of my blogger acquaintances: in response to Karolyn, who loves Hugo Chaves Venezuela, because the gas is .18 cents a gallon... ....but despises it's deplorable living conditions, as intolerable.
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•  Jay says: April 19, 2012 at 8:51 pm Vigilant,
•  the answer to your question, which is really an expression of puzzlement, as to how Karolyn, and her ilk, can hold Two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, and accepting Both to be True, is easily understood, when we realize that our dear friend Karolyn, is merely applying the art of 'Doublespeak'. In other words,.... 'messing with our heads'.
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•  "DOUBLETHINK": The prevailing mental condition is 'controlled' insanity. The rules of the 'Inner Party' are held together by adherence to a common doctrine. In a Party member, not even the smallest deviation of opinion, on the most Unimportant subject, can be tolerated. But it is also necessary to remember that events happened in the desired manner. In addition, if it is necessary to rearrange one’s memories, or to tamper with written records, then it is also necessary to Forget, that one has done so.
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• The trick of managing all of this can be learned like any other mental technique. It is learned by the majority of  Inner 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.
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•  Doublethink defined ie:, "The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them as absolute Fact". 
•  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. 
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• 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' (English Socialism), since the essential act of the Party, is to use conscious deception, while retaining the firmness of purpose, that goes with complete honesty. 
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•  To tell Deliberate Lies, while genuinely believing them, and 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 objective reality, and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies..... each step of this is indispensably necessary.
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•  Even in using the word 'Doublethink', it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word, one admits that one is 'tampering with reality'; by a fresh act of doublethink, one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the Lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately it is by means of doublethink, that The Party has been able.... and may, for all we know, continue to be able, for thousands of years ... to arrest (by continually re-writing) the course of history…
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•  Since in reality, BIG BROTHER is Not infallible, there Is need for an un-wearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The key-word here is 'Blackwhite'. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that "black Is white",... in contradiction of the plain facts.
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•  Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white, when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to Believe that black is white, and furthermore to Know that black is white, and to Forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known as 'Doublethink'.
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• The official ideology (Oligarchical Socialism) abounds with contradictions, even when there is no logical reason for them. Simultaneously, true to the principles of Doublethink, 'The Party' rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and even still it does all of this in the Name of socialism.
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•   It systematically undermines the solidarity of 'The Traditional Family', all the while appealing to the 'sentiment' of family. Even the names of the four Ministries by which Oceania is governed, are a deliberate reversal of facts: 
• The Ministry of Peace... concerns itself with War;
•  The Ministry of Truth... with Lies; 
• The Ministry of Love... with Torture; (room 101)
• and The Ministry of Plenty.... with Starvation. 
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• These contradictions are not accidental. They are a deliberate exercise of Doublethink. If the 'High' are to keep their places permanently – then the prevailing mental condition must be... controlled insanity. 
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• The subtlest practitioners of doublethink, are those who invented Doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. In our society, 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. 
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• This guest post from Jay, ref: Canadafreepress
• Another historic literary source of differing opinion, across the Greatest Nation the world has ever known, The United States of America, "One Nation Under God"