...pretending I’m not excited as fuck. ?
I’m all for the “responsible steward to the newly awakened”, but you have to admit....
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I've been accepting defeat, that Biden will be president. Lots of cognitive dissonance for me, so I can understand them better if our Republic is saved. Try it.... only consume their media for a few days, trigger your own cognitive dissonance so you can better empathize.
That is not the right way to do it. Thats like the fallen saying you have to go through it and experience it to be able to relate to it. We are not so simple creations that we are incapable of empathy to those suffering.
Yes. Addicts can find support from other sufferers, but firsthand experience isnt the only way to relate or communicate with people. Plus, self-defeating actions can often become self-fullfilling.
My source on the technique is "propaganda" and "Crystalizing Public Opinion" by Bernays. In the chapters that describe how to resist being influenced by propaganda, the main theme is to "know yourself", and Bernays recommends triggering your own cognitive dissonance is the quickest way to diminish the effect of influencers.
Free thinking! Yay