That is what it is. Our brains will flat out refuse to process anything that goes against our world view if it can help it. There must be some evolutionary reason we do this.
Yeh, Jung calls it the Shadow...the dark side of ego.
Everyone has this, but some are able to control it while others embrace it. Those that embrace, typically are the narcissists, tyrants, and similar assholes that have a major Dunning-Krueger thing going on.
That's exactly what cognitive dissonance is all about. And yes there is indeed an evolutionary driver for this phenomenon.
Red Queen theory can account for the vast majority of evolutionary mutations that occur and I can't help but think a similar explanation can be attributed to cognitive dissonance.
In short, Red Queen theory can be explained as such:
"The better a prey gets at evolving in ways as to be more difficult to hunt, the better the predator gets at evolving in ways as to become a more effective hunter".
Might seem to be a bit of a tangent at first, but I'm certain these two concepts are related in some way.
That is what it is. Our brains will flat out refuse to process anything that goes against our world view if it can help it. There must be some evolutionary reason we do this.
Yeh, Jung calls it the Shadow...the dark side of ego.
Everyone has this, but some are able to control it while others embrace it. Those that embrace, typically are the narcissists, tyrants, and similar assholes that have a major Dunning-Krueger thing going on.
His dad sounds like the embrace crowd.
it's called the herd. fear drives the herd.
Deep in our DNA
That's exactly what cognitive dissonance is all about. And yes there is indeed an evolutionary driver for this phenomenon.
Red Queen theory can account for the vast majority of evolutionary mutations that occur and I can't help but think a similar explanation can be attributed to cognitive dissonance.
In short, Red Queen theory can be explained as such:
"The better a prey gets at evolving in ways as to be more difficult to hunt, the better the predator gets at evolving in ways as to become a more effective hunter".
Might seem to be a bit of a tangent at first, but I'm certain these two concepts are related in some way.