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by trefoiled 1041 days ago
If you haven't read 1984, this is really confusing, but a "memory hole" is a hole into which you place something you don't want to have any memory of, destroying it forever. The ironic name is an example of "doublethink."
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I believe you mean "Doublespeak" rather than "Doublethink".
No, “doublethink” is the term introduced in Orwell’s 1984.
And those who've actually read it also know that Newspeak is also a term he coined and that since we don't actually have newspeak, the natural extrapolation of the term Doublethink into a spoken application is the term Doublespeak.... Right?