"Cognitive dissonance" and the American public

If you're a young American you may not know much about the term "cognitive dissonance."  See if your parents can help with that.
 
If you haven't encountered the term before, you need to understand it, because it's one of the factors that explains why so many seemingly rational, adult Americans not only don't know what's happening (understandable), but consistently refuse to internalize clear information--something that's seemingly irrational.

Cognitive dissonance is when a person is "aware" of two things that either are or at least seem contradictory.  If you've never experienced this, you can't believe how totally jarring it is.  Many people just freeze--until they find a way to resolve the contradiction.

How people resolve this conflict depends on how much the contradiction upsets their worldview. If it's trivial they simply put the new information aside, trusting that more information will change the new info to make it not contradict their worldview.  But if the contradiction is too unsettling they often simply reject the newer piece of information.

In extreme cases the brain just freezes, unable to process new information while overwhelmed by the contradiction.

I'll give you an example that's totally outside your experience, because it'll be easier to process:

Novice pilots aren't allowed to fly in clouds, because when you have no visual reference for which way is up, your built-in balance system can trick you, making you think you're turning when you're not, and so on.

The only check on that is a display on your instrument panel that tells whether you're level or turning.  But the signals from your built-in balance system are so powerful--which you've lived your whole life with and it's never been wrong--that novice pilots tend to believe their internal senses over the instrument--usually with fatal results.

Now let's bring that to you:  For your whole life you've been relentlessly programmed to believe what the TV and papers tell you--which is ONLY what the regime wants you to know.  You don't believe you were programmed, but you were--and are.  Accordingly, if you happen see or read something that contradicts the Narrative, what do you think happens?

Sure:  Almost everyone rejects the contradictory information, because it's easier than overturning everything you've been conditioned to believe.

Another example:  Germany has been a highly developed society for several centuries.  Everyone in the world was absolutely stunned when WW1 started, and afterwards thousands of books were written trying to explain how rational, civilized societies could have killed ten million people.  But that's just preamble for what's next:

The kicker is the rise of Hitler that led to WW2.  Almost no one could believe that just 20 years after the end of WW1 the population of the main country that was defeated in that war could be led into a second war.  So we had people in the U.S. who were absolutely certain that Hitler was a reasonable guy who would never go down the same path that killed so many millions just 20 years earlier.

Non-Germans simply couldn't believe that the "good German people" would support a leader who was determined to take them to war again so soon after the last one.  And the refusal to believe that made the nations that eventually fought against German and its allies delay re-arming until almost too late.  (Points if you know the countries that joined Germany in WW2.)

Cognitive dissonance.

"The impossible" happened because Hitler was able to use basic psychological techniques--what we've now shortened to "propaganda"--to convince German citizens to support him, and then to support going to war.

This was SO unlikely that after the war literally thousands of books were written analyzing how those techniques worked.  (Google "Leni Riefenstahl.")

Now:  Do ya think that maybe with the total immersion of current societies to TV and the internet, those techniques are perhaps a thousand times more effective?  

Oh come on!  Don't be deliberately dense!  Of course they're vastly more effective:  Residents of all "advanced" societies are the most thoroughly propagandized people ever.  Most Americans are very much like the “good Germans” of 1938.

SO...when people who've been fed The Narrative encounter information that not only contradicts The Narrative, but does so in hugely shocking, unsettling ways, that encounter produces instant and very serious cognitive dissonance.  And psychology tells us almost everyone will do almost anything to avoid cognitive dissonance.

And how do they do that?  Of course:  By simply ignoring the newer information.  And in a totally predictable move, the bidenharris regime has made that totally effortless, by calling all information that contradicts any part of its Narrative "disinformation" (or "mis-" or "mal-" or similar pejoratives).

One almost can't help but admire how utterly circular--how self-reinforcing--the regime's control of information is.  

If you look closely at “your fellow Americans” you'll find that virtually all of them constantly dismiss any information that contradicts The Narrative spewed by the regime.  Moreover, they're happy to do so, because it avoids cognitive dissonance.  They automatically believe that anything that contradicts the regime must be false.

Wow.  Years from now this will be called (correctly) "willful ignorance."

There are dozens (if not hundreds) of videos on the Net of moronic late-night "comedians" like Steven Colbert doing "jokes" about how anyone who claimed the "vax" would NOT keep you from either getting or transmitting duh Chyna virus was not only a rube, but should be denied all medical care.

Those of us who do our own research knew all along that the vax did NOT prevent people from getting or transmitting the virus.  But almost no one listened--because it contradicted the Narrative Colbert and the regime and all the "cool" elites were pushing.

Perhaps surprisingly, I actually mildly enjoy watching this level of deliberate, willful ignorance play out.  It's the old line "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."  If people are so strongly conditioned by the regime's Narrative that they unthinkingly obey the regime, without question, humanity is far better off without 'em in the gene pool.