> Cognitive dissonance is an essential requirement I think the correct word here is "doublethink". Cognitive dissonance implies experiencing an unpleasant sen

> Cognitive dissonance is an essential requirement I think the correct word here is "doublethink". Cognitive dissonance implies experiencing an unpleasant sensation from the contradiction, which leads people to try resolve the dissonance. Doublethink implies fully accepting two contradictory notions at once without any unpleasant sensation.