Cognitive dissonance over vaccines.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/it-isnt-cognitive-dissonance-its-doublethink



This morning I saw an excellent example of this on someone’s Facebook wall
(translated by FB from the Icelandic, so not perfect):




Cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs don't line up with your actions.
It's an uncomfortable state of mind when someone has contradictory values,
attitudes, or perspectives about the same thing.






It Isn't Cognitive Dissonance; It's Doublethink
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by Tyler Durden
Monday, Nov 14, 2022 - 02:00 PM

Authored by Thorsteinn Siglaugsson  via 'From Symptoms to Causes' Substack,

Cognitive dissonance is when people feel discomfort due to discrepancies in their own thoughts or beliefs.

As an example, someone who takes pride in being honest, feels such discomfort when he tells a lie.

Another example of cognitive dissonance is the discomfort felt by members of a cult when they seek to explain how the end of the world was postponed, as their apocalyptic prophecy did not come true.

The term was in fact coined by psychologist Leon Festinger in his studies of such cults in the 1950s.

The opposite of cognitive dissonance is doublethink, a word that first appeared in George Orwell’s 1984.

Doublethink is the ability to accept two contradictory beliefs at the same time, while being totally unaware of the contradiction. In Orwell’s own words:

    To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

aquascoot wrote on Nov 14^th, 2022 at 4:10pm:



that post itself may well be from a bot and then shown on millions of feeds all over the world due to corporate advertising.

Could be but then again -
I've seen those attitudes from many posters on websites.

Keep wearing your mask as a safety precaution, and don't be embarrassed if no one else is wearing one

Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 14^th, 2022 at 4:21pm:



Masks don't do much -
I suppose it's a little better than nothing?

aquascoot wrote on Nov 14^th, 2022 at 4:38pm:



No - it's double think.

if you were really crook after taking vaccines would you take more of them?

Carl D wrote on Nov 14^th, 2022 at 5:55pm:


nope,

but i know some of the people who were amongst the 11.8 million admissions to hospital in australia last year and they were there because they ate crap and never exercised and got diseases due to their own poor decisions.

11.8 million carl

covid is irrelevant

hit the gym

go to your christmas dinner and have a caesar salad and then hit the exercise bike.

Another one bites the dust !

Carl D wrote on Nov 14^th, 2022 at 6:37pm:


It must be a coincidence carl. All of these punters taking the vax and either flaming out or having major life changing complications. Just saying