Doublethink

My notes on the Wikipedia article "Doublethink"

- Act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts.

Origin and concepts 

- Know and not to know

- Complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies.

- To use logic against logic.

- Consciously to induce unconsciousness.

- To become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.

- To understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

- To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.

- Objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality.

- Word one admits that one is tampering with reality.

- Protect its iron power without degrading its people with constant propaganda.

- Lead to the implosion of the State.

- Could be controlled and manipulated merely through the alteration of everyday thought and language.

- Doublethink is the method of directly controlling thought.

- This is demonstrated by O'Brien, during the time when Winston Smith is being tortured toward the end of the book.

- Especially true of fundamentally important words such as good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, and justice and injustice.

- Means being able to falsify public records, and then believe in the new history that they themselves have just rewritten.

- The Ministry's name is itself an example of doublethink: the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies.

- Self-deception allows the Party to maintain huge goals and realistic expectations.

- If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

- Doublethink would avoid a "killing the messenger" attitude that could disturb the Command structure.

- Key tool of self-discipline for the Party.

- Without the confusion and misinformation associated with primitive totalitarian regimes.

- To let himself become consciously a loyal party member while letting his hatred of the party remain an unconscious presence deep in his mind and let it surface again at the very moment of his execution so that "the bullet would enter a free mind" which the Thought Police would not have a chance to tamper with again.

- With relieving cognitive dissonance by ignoring the contradiction between two world views.

This article has again helped me to define what doublethink really means and how it could be used in reality to manipulate the truth.  For further investigate I would like to find another article that explains doublethink in the practice of the real world and also the phase that was mentioned in the article "the bullet would enter a free mind" and if Winston died he would have a free mind.