#nineteen-eighty-four

Like, doublethink is a miraculously difficult concept to understand. It's the act of taking in a new piece of information, subconsciously knowing and remembering a contradicting piece of information and yet -- instead of being hit with cognitive dissonance or 'the backfire effect' -- accepting both as true. In a world where the accepted political broadcasted agenda and its reports change on a whim and the records must reflect 'what currently is' as 'always have been', and your nation's war is both a series of wars rapidly altering in target and an eternal battle, it's necessary for both total political control and an unresistant mind.