1949 ‘G. Orwell’ i. 37 Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting... All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.
1982 97 856/1 If he cannot affect the outside world, then at least he can transform the way he thinks about it—thus achieving as much reality control as he can in the circumstances.