Cognitive dissonance

A Classic Psychology Text Predicted Today’s Urban Decay

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The Classic Psychology Text That Predicted Today’s Urban DecayLewis M. Andrews – It’s a question that most Americans who follow the news ask themselves daily: “How can the residents of so many of the nation’s largest cities keep supporting local officials who tolerate the ongoing destruction of their communities?”

Why this May, for example, did the citizens of Chicago — a city where 21,000 students cannot demonstrate a basic competence in reading, science, and math — choose the teachers union-backed candidate, Brandon Johnson, for mayor? Especially when Johnson’s chief opponent, Paul Vallas, had promised the electorate sensible school reforms? Continue reading →

A total eclipse of sanity: America under the spell of mass hysteria

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cancerMike Adams – The total eclipse of sanity is now under way across America. Mass hysteria has gripped the minds of the gullible, many of whom now hallucinate their “reality” on a moment-by-moment basis.

Before the Charlottesville violence, the entire Left of America was hallucinating Russians behind every corner. Now, they’re hallucinating Neo-Nazis everywhere they look. This isn’t hyperbole, either: The hysterical Left is quite literally hallucinating almost everything they now believe: That all Trump supporters are Hitler-saluting Nazis; that all White people are racists; that America is still a slave-ownership nation; that Civil War statues might come to life and put them all back in chains, and other absurdities.

Never in the history of our country have so many people been brainwashed to believes such obvious absurdities and lies. That’s because never before in our nation’s history has the globalist-run fake news media been so determined to undermine America and everything it stands for. The goal of the twisted, anti-America media as it operates today is to indoctrinate the masses with ginned-up hatred, intolerance and violence so that the nation can be thrust into a civil war from which radical Marxism, communism and Left-wing totalitarianism can sweep into power.

Mass hypnosis generates two kinds of hallucinations

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Cognitive Dissonance & The Dangerous Dynamics of Assumption

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Jack Adam Weber – Does someone in your life regularly attack or judge you before getting the story straight? If so, you’re not alone, and know how absurd this kind of interaction is — especially because it’s so preventable!

The single most common source of conflict I encounter on a daily basis is the act of assumption — assuming anything before getting the facts straight. We fail to ask, and instead assume. And when our assumption is negative, we usually engage with a fair amount of emotional baggage, arriving at false conclusions and ingraining false beliefs in our misguided little noggins.

So, when you have an issue with someone, get the facts first. Don’t assume, because how you view that issue will most likely influence your emotions and your actions. When we misinterpret, we might be wrong, and then our whole story, emotional response, and series of actions can be wrong, misplaced, and misguided.

This is a kind violence, a going to battle — because of bad thinking. While most of us have been guilty of assumption and going to some battle on false pretenses (think ex-president Bush’s weapons of mass destruction alibi), we don’t have to keep doing it. And we can do less of it. Self-awareness and catching ourselves when we make assumptions is an act of compassion. For, when assumption goes unchecked, scenarios can explode and turn into full-blown wars — among couples, companies, communities, and countries.

Assumptions often arise when we feel hurt or threatened by someone else and we can’t handle the feeling we are having. So, we might invent some story about the other person to vilify them, to get back at them, as a way to deal with our hurt feelings. How we (often unconsciously) interpret our feeling, however, might not be accurate. While we might feel unworthy, attacked, or violated, this doesn’t mean that we are or have been. And, in reaction, we might assume the other person doesn’t care about us, is mean and messed up, or anything else we conclude concocted as a reaction to feeling rejected or otherwise hurt.

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The European Union, Cognitive Dissonance And The Gotthard Tunnel

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Katherine Frisk – In this ever-changing world with a kaleidoscope of disinformation, fake news, and cognitively dissonant “facts,” each and every one of us needs to step back from the circus.

Stand back from protests of all kinds engineered and organized by George Soros Open Society Foundations  –color revolutions and regime change– used to distract us from reality.

It is time to decide for ourselves what we believe in, what we stand for and what we are prepared to fight for.

The 21st century is not for sissies, and unless we equip ourselves with the best knowledge available, we will be swept along on a tide of deceit and into our own slavery through complacency and ostrich syndrome.

Our biggest challenge to my mind, is to understand how everything has two opposing philosophies that become so intertwined that we cannot discern the difference, and when we do become aware of the opposing contradictory nature of the information that is presented to us, we are told to either accept it on faith, or because some university professor said so, or the all time favourite, “scientific evidence.”

And you go, “but… but.. but…” and invariably doubt your own instincts because after all, “experts” know better than you right? The result is a society suffering from severe cognitive dissonance that can be easily manipulated and herded into a corral of somebody else’s making wherein we shall be enslaved.

…the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change.

This game has been played out for centuries. It is commonly called “black magic,” mind control and propaganda. Or the most contemporary acronym, “Fake News.”

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Why People Cling to False Beliefs

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cognitive One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch.

“Just the thing to quench my thirst,” quoth he.

Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.

Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”

It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

Jake Van Der Borne – This fable by Aesop (circa 620-564 BC) illustrates a powerful example of the theory of cognitive dissonance. The Fox desires a bunch of grapes hanging high from its vine in a tree. After numerous attempts to get the grapes he “decides” that he doesn’t want the grapes. They are probably sour. The Fox rationalizes his failure.

Cognitive dissonance refers to the mental stress or discomfort experienced when we hold two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, perform an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas or values, or are confronted by new information that conflicts with our existing beliefs, ideas, or values.

Notice the pattern in the tale of the Fox: he desires something, finds it unattainable, and reduces his cognitive dissonance (conflict) by criticizing it.

He can’t have the grapes, so he tells himself he didn’t really want them anyway.

It is human nature to dislike being wrong. When we make a mistake, it is hard to admit it.

We resort to mental gymnastics to avoid accepting that our logic – or our belief system itself – is flawed. Lying, denying, and rationalizing are among the tactics we employ to dance around the truth and avoid the discomfort that contradiction creates. We avoid or toss aside information that isn’t consistent with our current beliefs. Emotions trump logic and evidence. Once our minds are made up, it is very difficult to change them.

This is cognitive dissonance.

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