“the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary”
“a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands”
Any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as “thoughtcrime”.
The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
There are so many examples of this in contemporary American liberal thought that it is frightening.
I can hardly wait until the Newspeak dictionary comes out.