And in an odd way, you are right… It is to prevent rebellion.
Remember… The state doesn’t want you to just be able to say something with the truth clearly it’s not… They want you to believe it in your brain.
That is,They want to prevent you from engaging in CrimeThink which would be a form of rebellion.
The key is... You must believe.
Sigh… Damn spellcheck. What I was trying to say is:
“the state doesn’t want you to just be able to say something is the truth when clearly it is not the truth… They have to find a way to make you believe and feel that it is the truth.
Thanks. Right, my thought is that actually believing two contradictory thoughts would have the effect of rendering a person unable to think and render them inactive. It’s sort of like when a computer has a “does not compute” error, it stops, it freezes. . .
It’s like a way to actually turn the analytic component of the mind off as an actual psychological/mental mechanism. But I thought that idea was actually in the book. It looks like it was not.