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There are two kinds of straight examples here: ''Verified'' examples, where a reliable narrator or similar gives the audience insight into the mind of the character, and ''apparent'' examples where a character appears to be engaging in doublethink but we don't know for sure what's really going on in his mind. Examples of the latter kind are more effective when a character suspects another of doublethink.

[[Straw Hypocrite~~|Straw Hypocrites~~]] often engage in doublethink. In cases where doublethink is combined with some version of [[The Masquerade]], it becomes an extremely potent tool of the [[Consummate Liar]]: No liar is as believable as the honest liar who truly believes in his own lies.

[[Straw Hypocrite]]s often engage in doublethink. In cases where doublethink is combined with some version of [[The Masquerade]], it becomes an extremely potent tool of the [[Consummate Liar]]: No liar is as believable as the honest liar who truly believes in his own lies.

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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* People who subscribe to [[Conspiracy Theories]] are often able to jump from one belief to another, without ever admitting they're contradictory or that the original was wrong. There's an organization called "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth", which claims a membership of 1,500 professionals in those professions. When debunkers point out that more than their entire membership enters the labour force in those professions each ''year'', and that there are over a ''million'' people in those professions in the US, the Truthers often promptly start whining about the Appeal To Authority fallacy.

** Not just [[Conspiracy Theories]]; people seem to have a knack for this when it comes to politics, atheism, religion, philosophy, or just about anything you can hold an opinion on, really.

* A cornerstone tenet of the Church of the SubGenius is to "pull the wool over your own eyes" ~~-- if~~ you're going to believe in bullshit, it better be ''your own'' bullshit. One mark of a SubGenius sermon is that it [[Lampshades]] its absurdity while preaching it with the most sincere conviction. This is one of the reasons it's called a 'post-modern religion'. Possibly the biggest piece of [[Doublethink]] on offer at these services, however, is that many members really and truly believe that other religions (read: Christianity) actually believe something that relates to the big pile of bullshit they just cooked up themselves on the basis of zero research and zero understanding. That goes double for [[The Fundamentalist|the most enthusiastic]] members of 'The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' who do roughly the same thing while dressed as a pirate.

* A cornerstone tenet of the Church of the SubGenius is to "pull the wool over your own eyes"—if you're going to believe in bullshit, it better be ''your own'' bullshit. One mark of a SubGenius sermon is that it [[Lampshades]] its absurdity while preaching it with the most sincere conviction. This is one of the reasons it's called a 'post-modern religion'. Possibly the biggest piece of Doublethink on offer at these services, however, is that many members really and truly believe that other religions (read: Christianity) actually believe something that relates to the big pile of bullshit they just cooked up themselves on the basis of zero research and zero understanding. That goes double for [[The Fundamentalist|the most enthusiastic]] members of 'The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' who do roughly the same thing while dressed as a pirate.

** The funny thing about both of those is that they work way better as parodies of Paganism. Or their own members.