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{{quote|''"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, 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 it was necessary to forget, 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."''|''[[Nineteen Eighty
The ability of simultaneously believing in at least two or more concepts that mutually contradict each other, without [[Logic Bomb|cognitive dissonance]]. You do know better and what's really true, but you still keep [[Believing Your Own Lies]] as the truth just because.
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Compare and contrast [[No Except Yes]] and [[From a Certain Point of View]], where a character tries to glue opposing viewpoints together as being the same thing, giving it a resemblance of coherence by various esoteric distinctions. Contrast [[Becoming the Mask]], where cognitive dissonance sets in and a character who has pretended to be loyal to a certain group starts gaining true loyalty towards it, and [[Both Sides Have a Point]] where both sides are respected but kept separated. See also [[Two Plus Torture Makes Five]] and [[The Treachery of Images]].
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== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Played painfully straight, debated ''and'' subverted in the [[Trope Namer]], George Orwell's ''[[Nineteen Eighty
** The novel's protagonist Winston Smith describes double think as:
** The key to the Party maintaining this practice of doublethink is the belief that [[Your Mind Makes It Real|human consciousness is the only reality that exists]]. In other words, if you believe something hard enough and everyone else believes it too, then it is reality regardless of the facts in front of you.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29 unusually creepy episode] of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', {{spoiler|Picard}} gets captured as a spy and tortured by the enemy. One recurring question is how many lights are illuminating the room. It's really four, but the torturer [[Two Plus Torture Equals Five|insists that they are five]] - and he isn't satisfied with a lie about there being five lights, the hero is required to truly believe it. In the end, {{spoiler|the protagonist thinks he truly sees five lights for a moment, and he later confesses this to the ship's counselor. While the torture scene is directly inspired by ''[[Nineteen Eighty
== [[Music]] ==
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