Imagine living in a society that is ostensibly based on socialist or even communist principles, but that is actually turning into a capitalist society in front of your very eyes. Also imagine that this is a top secret. To survive in such a schizophrenic society, you would have to become a schizophrenic, as well. Your main leader and article about repression in China are about such a society (“China’s Crackdown” and “Princelings and the Goon State,” April 16, 2011). To begin with, you would have to master doublespeak. Doublethink would come next. And you would master the situation you face only if and when you reached doublefeel, as well. This Orwellian quagmire is what more than one-billion people face every single day. Sadly, Chinese schizophrenia may run for many more years. No matter how rapid, the underlying social transformation will take considerable time. But if wholesale repression fails to keep this doubleworld stitched together, horrible things are liable to happen. And fast. Whence redoubled repression, too.