Aren't people peculiar? Today in the supermarket, I saw a young woman not only wearing a mask, but goggles as well. I managed to get to the end of the aisle before I cracked up laughing. But it's no laughing matter. Living in such fear must be horrendous.
Another example is the belief that everyone has a right to freedom over their own body, hence the Pro Choice movement, but simultaneously forcing all to be vaccinated.
Spouting contradictory beliefs & thinking both are true seem symptomatic of a hive mind of people w/ no independent / critical / rational thought, common sense, morality, etc.
Most people like to think what other people think, believe what other people believe, wear what they wear, eat what they eat and so on. Independent thought can make life hard. Once a person has agreed to follow the mainstream narrative on anything it is easier to just stick with it and not ask questions. Even if, somewhere deep inside them, they know it's rubbish. Just put that knowledge in a box and hide it so that nobody knows. Life is easier if you're "one of the crowd". (At least, it seems that way to me - standing on the outside looking in. I have found all my life I have to just do the opposite, think the opposite to the crowd. Never been able to go along with the majority - makes life quite lonely!)
Whereas the ability to consider two contradictory ideas as both being true, being consciously aware of their contradiction, is a mark of developed reasoning and higher cognitive ability. Niels Bohr said that the opposite of an ordinary truth is a falsehood, but the opposite of a great truth is often another great truth. Weird and ironic somehow, as if doublethink is the toxic mimic, or carnival mirror distortion, of the source of greatest wisdom. Great article by the way.
Cognitive dissonance is the learning mechanism to a higher thought process. Yet it seems in a world of corporate and government double think and intentional obfuscation of language into a meta world of meta meanings and definitions. We are at the precipice of the least solvable crisis that will get labelled as a mental illness.... yes and I just know that corporations will have a pill for that.
anyone with critical thinking will know that you. just go to a library or pick up a book
Cognitive dissonance poems are inspired by Plato, James Bond Movie titles, Jean Michel Basquiat, Zen Koans and Yogi Berraās quotable sayings
These short hard boiled poems, koans, sayings, whatever you want to define it as. Their intention is to surreptitiously discuss every kind of philosophical idea in the least amount of words possible.
Oh here is a great quote about cognitive dissonance drawn from a UnHerd article
In Gitta Serenyās biography of Albert Speer, the Dutch Protestant theologian W.A. Visser āt Hooft is quoted saying of the Holocaust that āpeople could find no place in their consciousness for such an unimaginable horror and that they did not have the imagination, together with the courage, to face it. It is possible to live in a twilight between knowing and not knowing.ā
(Why we need genocide cinema - Tom Shone - 9/3/2024)
Aren't people peculiar? Today in the supermarket, I saw a young woman not only wearing a mask, but goggles as well. I managed to get to the end of the aisle before I cracked up laughing. But it's no laughing matter. Living in such fear must be horrendous.
Another example is the belief that everyone has a right to freedom over their own body, hence the Pro Choice movement, but simultaneously forcing all to be vaccinated.
Spouting contradictory beliefs & thinking both are true seem symptomatic of a hive mind of people w/ no independent / critical / rational thought, common sense, morality, etc.
Most people like to think what other people think, believe what other people believe, wear what they wear, eat what they eat and so on. Independent thought can make life hard. Once a person has agreed to follow the mainstream narrative on anything it is easier to just stick with it and not ask questions. Even if, somewhere deep inside them, they know it's rubbish. Just put that knowledge in a box and hide it so that nobody knows. Life is easier if you're "one of the crowd". (At least, it seems that way to me - standing on the outside looking in. I have found all my life I have to just do the opposite, think the opposite to the crowd. Never been able to go along with the majority - makes life quite lonely!)
Whereas the ability to consider two contradictory ideas as both being true, being consciously aware of their contradiction, is a mark of developed reasoning and higher cognitive ability. Niels Bohr said that the opposite of an ordinary truth is a falsehood, but the opposite of a great truth is often another great truth. Weird and ironic somehow, as if doublethink is the toxic mimic, or carnival mirror distortion, of the source of greatest wisdom. Great article by the way.
The devil is a pro at doublethink deceptions but we should not be downhearted as the Immaculata has already crushed his head
Cognitive dissonance is the learning mechanism to a higher thought process. Yet it seems in a world of corporate and government double think and intentional obfuscation of language into a meta world of meta meanings and definitions. We are at the precipice of the least solvable crisis that will get labelled as a mental illness.... yes and I just know that corporations will have a pill for that.
anyone with critical thinking will know that you. just go to a library or pick up a book
https://open.substack.com/pub/saxxon/p/cognitive-dissonance-101-cog-dis?r=1u8tu3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Excerpt from a old old book that needs resurrection!
"Men think in herds. They go mad in herds and only regain their sanity slowly one by one."
Maybe never, as buying into a cult belief has to be lived to remain sane?
Book: "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
Mackay 1841, 440 pages. He led off with the Tulip bulb mania!
Thank you Thorsteinn. I think your writing is beautiful, especially: Certum est, quia impossibile
"Belief has the word LIE in it."
https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Dissonance-101-poems-explanations-ebook/dp/B085NKV1ZZ
Cognitive dissonance poems are inspired by Plato, James Bond Movie titles, Jean Michel Basquiat, Zen Koans and Yogi Berraās quotable sayings
These short hard boiled poems, koans, sayings, whatever you want to define it as. Their intention is to surreptitiously discuss every kind of philosophical idea in the least amount of words possible.
Thank you for your lexical precision. A lot of great evils could be avoided if there were more of this.
well my book creates cognitive dissonance while reading...
Ironical or what?
https://saxxon.substack.com/p/cognitive-dissonance-101-cog-dis
Oh here is a great quote about cognitive dissonance drawn from a UnHerd article
In Gitta Serenyās biography of Albert Speer, the Dutch Protestant theologian W.A. Visser āt Hooft is quoted saying of the Holocaust that āpeople could find no place in their consciousness for such an unimaginable horror and that they did not have the imagination, together with the courage, to face it. It is possible to live in a twilight between knowing and not knowing.ā
(Why we need genocide cinema - Tom Shone - 9/3/2024)
https://unherd.com/2024/03/why-we-need-genocide-cinema/
A great article to stimulate some thinking!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ai-computers/ai-self-awareness/?