Why it is hard to wake up friends and family
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She's so right. I find it's helpful to listen a ton and then take two or more contradictory ideas that the other person holds and pit them against each other. You gotta bring their own cognitive dissonance up to the surface. Like she said, it's an extremely painful process for them and you gotta be delicate. You also can't accomplish it all in one sitting. It's little by little. I'm working on some people now.
Ultimately, I don't think I'll be successful on my own. I think it'll take massive events occurring in the political world for them to wake up.
My ultra liberal aunt only woke up when Twitter banned Trump. She's also an alternative health practitioner so the vaccines were the next big wake up event for her.
Most liberals operate on deep feelings vs deep thinking. Your love & compassion is the best way to help them see that cognitive dissonance. Great work fren & keep at it. How awesome will it be once she (any of them really) does fully turn around?
Take the first few moments of astrology references out and the rest of it is very straightforward and makes perfect sense. It took me a while to figure out how to approach red pilling my husband but my strategy is to talk about old events first. We’ve talked about the Titanic, with very little resistance because learning a dark secret from 100 years ago doesn’t hurt. We’ve talked about JFK because learning Bush killed him 60 years ago doesn’t hurt that comfort zone either. Next up is 9/11, then more modern issues. I’m hoping by the time we get to current events I’ve conditioned him to realize government lies and corruption is the norm and be accepting of realizations he has lashed out about before.
That's a great approach. I'll try that myself. Thanks.