Funny my wife grew up in Fairfax and went to Robinson High School your rival. Probably the same time as you. I was across the river in Maryland.

Anyway this is beginning to sound a lot like 1984 According to Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, doublethink is “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy…”