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Taking a Stand Against Cognitive Dissonance |
Choose Reality is taking a stand against brainwashing through Cognitive Dissonance. It is not OK for the government to feed us a constant and steady diet of lies and deception so as to reprogram the population to get used to being lied to. We refuse to accept increasing levels of government dishonesty.
Cognitive Dissonance is explained very well at Changing Minds.org. It is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
Dissonance increases with:
- The importance of the subject to us.
- How strongly the dissonant thoughts conflict.
- Our inability to rationalize and explain away the conflict.
Cognitive dissonance is a very powerful motivator which will often lead us to change one or other of the conflicting belief or action. The discomfort often feels like a tension between the two opposing thoughts. To release the tension we can take one of three actions:
- Change our behavior.
- Justify our behavior by changing the conflicting cognition.
- Justify our behavior by adding new cognitions.
To put it more simply, we can either fix the problems or lie to ourselves and pretend that the problems aren't there. We have a choice between living the lie or dealing with reality. Dealing with reality is hard but not dealing with reality is even harder. It's just like being a drug addict or running up debt on your credit card. The sooner you give it up the better off you are. That's why we assert that we can no longer continue to live the lie and we say, "Choose Reality"!
All we are say-ing, is give truth a chance.
One of the myths that we are expected to believe is that it is OK to lie to the people "for their own good". That it's OK to lie to start wars that the public is just too stupid to understand, and that we are expected to continue to believe the lies after the lies are exposed as an act of patriotism. That is so wrong that it makes my skin crawl.
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