<P> The Ministry of Plenty rations and controls food, goods, and domestic production; every fiscal quarter, it publishes false claims of having raised the standard of living, when it has, in fact, reduced rations, availability, and production . The Ministry of Truth substantiates Ministry of Plenty's claims by revising historical records to report numbers supporting the current, "increased rations". </P> <P> The Ministry of Truth controls information: news, entertainment, education, and the arts . Winston Smith works in the Minitrue RecDep (Records Department), "rectifying" historical records to concord with Big Brother's current pronouncements so that everything the Party says is true . </P> <P> The Ministry of Love identifies, monitors, arrests, and converts real and imagined dissidents . In Winston's experience, the dissident is beaten and tortured, and, when near - broken, he is sent to Room 101 to face "the worst thing in the world"--until love for Big Brother and the Party replaces dissension . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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