Doublethink. A strange word from George Orwell’s book Nineteen-Eighty-Four. What does it mean? We turn to Wikipedia for that:
Wikipedia said: “Doublethink is the act of simultaneously and fervently holding two mutually contradictory beliefs.”
Or a better and more detailed (and confusing) quotation:
Wikipedia said: “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
How does this affect us? Every day in Maple, thousands of Maplers utilize doublethink without even knowing it. Heck, I bet most of them don’t know what doublethink means.
Doublethink is mainly used to motivate and/or demotivate.
For example: Maple is fun and boring. Maple is good and bad. Apply doublethink to those, and that’s MapleStory for you.
Okay, now that I’ve gone over that to get you hooked, onto the blog! . . . Wait, this is the blog!
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