How are we facing reality? Are we acknowledging the light and dark in ourselves and the world, or denying it?
Cognitive dissonance is a negotiation with reality required to maintain/sustain our illusory sense of self or worldview. The ego-personality-identity defenses protect our self-concept from dissolution. We can’t admit our wrong, and when confronted about it, it leads to embracing the wrong more. New information is rejected through the “backfire” effect, and the wrong belief is held onto more dearly. We condition ourselves to believe in, and love, the things we suffer for.
It is kind of like a Stockholm Syndrome towards untruth. We get Mind Controlled by falsity, and live our lives accordingly, suffering and loving it, defending our suffering. Our attachment to untruth brings us our self-inflicted suffering, yet we don’t care about that self-abuse, and choose to keep loving our self-delusional negotiation with reality.
This is a person who remains attached to falsity, lies, deceptions and illusions. They can’t process contradiction well. They remain attached to lies they use as a basis for their identity. In their ego attachment, they choose beliefs over the truth. Their logically processing capacity is diminished, and therefore accepts contradiction and ignores the truth.
The critical thinking, trivium, imagination, wonder, curiosity, questioning, doubt, etc. is the path of facing the Truth in reality, the good and the bad, the light and the dark, the beauty and horror, to empower ourselves with accurate perspectives and positions on the “game board” of life. This person can process contradiction and choose the most accurate result. They have less ego attachment. This is a free thinker who changes their self-concept, worldview and behaviors instead of altering perceptions to fit preconceptions.
If you have not given previous thought as to how you process data in yourself, then you might be processing data incorrectly and arriving at erroneous conclusions about things.
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What do you do when people are so ignorant they don't even know that they are ignorant?
The answer is get out of the way and stay there.
Sadly It is not safe to educate the un-willing nor is it safe to educate the willing, but we have to try, don't you think? The good news is the experience will help me personally get rid of more of my own ignorance. Funny how the ignorant turn out to be the best teachers. LOL
Well all you can do is speak, and those who don't want to hear don't. Talk to those who want to receive ;) Those who are unwilling don't want it indeed.
What is perception and what is reality, without perception we cannot experience reality, but one have to be careful to make sure he is getting the right perception of reality because perception can be wrong at time. We also need to try our best in educating both the willing and unwilling, who knows where the best result is going to come out from.
Yup, the goal is to align our perception (map) with the actual reality that is (territory).
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You should work on the script for the next Star Wars movie :D
LOL, why's that?
Your philosophy is amazing :D
I'm sorry
You are right the attachment can play a very hard emotional and spicologicamente but in my opinion it is due to our ego to achieve something extraordinary despite the expected ends up hurting rather than achieve something rewarding so we must stop our vision objectively not to fall into that spiral of bitterness and achieve our goals in a nice way because if it is not something that interests you and you do not want to lose it you do not get attached either by ego or something else the important thing is that you take control and do not continue to cheat yourself everything flows thanks for sharing very good post