"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell, 1984 They are lying to you, they know they are lying to you. This will not stop, it will only get worse and worse until it gets utterly ridiculous (we're not there yet, it'll get much worse). The people who are indoctrinated into this cult will continue to believe, even stronger as the official line becomes more and more absurd. The key, I suppose, will be to break the indoctrination of as many people as possible. Exactly how that can be done, I'm not entirely sure. But something like Peter Boghossian's street epistemology (as discussed in "How to have impossible conversations") seems to be a decent way of getting people to examine the validity of their belief systems. Direct confrontation will not work, it will result in a defensive response and a hardening of the belief. Creation of cognitive dissonance may be helpful in some people, but could also result in reinforcement of the cult beliefs. The key seems to be basically a Socratic method of questioning in which you don't try to actually convince the other person of anything, just ask them questions on why they believe what they believe, probing the basis for their belief and sewing a seed of doubt for their "deeply held" beliefs.