Cognitive Dissonance Theory Case building explained

[Discern4]

I feel like I've been given only half the lesson..

[AntiSocialTroll]

This guy is a fucking idiotic genius. Go die in a life sentence.

[IBsmokin4u]

very good lecture thats for sharing

[truvelocity]

Kind of like those creationist web sites, full of cognitive dissonance with a plethora of thought terminating cliches to hold the mind captive.

[newcoyote]

@truvelocity I don't know. I think creationists must be more deluded than anything. They seem to genuinely believe in the Genesis story with little concern about the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The latter part of your comment is true but only a small part of the issue.

[guitargodslash89]

I feel so stupid now, i found the name in a related video, nervermind.

[guitargodslash89]

What is the speaker's name?where can i find more videos by him?

[myemilrob]

@guitargodslash89 gordon graham. 

[dunngar]

i personally believe there are always conspiracies.. and that money is the reason the upper echelons make decisions for themselves, but against people. Nationalism means nothing to the wealthy, especially if they are indoctrinated into their own line of inheritance like a David Rockefeller.

Certain people on the top meet only with people who are like them, its not a NWO conspiracy, its the plane truth that the powerful preserve their power by unifying their ideals against the public for gain

[Slavestorms]

That's similar to Michael Parenti's world view. A permanent class struggle with small gains and huge losses. The gains are measured in terms of money and the losses are counted in human lives.

One has only to look around to see the decline in freedoms with the rise in the security state to get a clear picture of what the future holds

We appear to be living in 1937 Germany with "I" Watch, Infra Guard, Interpol in charge of the FBI, cameras on every corner & a chip in every pocket. Your papers!

[dunngar]

I agree.. but i also agree that it shouldn't be called NWO, simply because its an old world order, with upgrades.

Certain people use others like pawns in a chess game, but the difference is, everyone can be moved with money, and most people do what they're told, so laws restrict their movement.

People cannot go into business for themselves since competition is too stiff, thus can not ever own their own home, and the American dream becomes a sick nightmare for most people.slaves we are indeed

[motorolarules]

Critical thinking can help us understand this exists in all human beings. It can also create understanding in the fact that the 'powers that be' use this against us with great ease.

We are, in fact, free to think but we are only taught to think a certain way, a 'state' sponsored way. If we come to fully realize true freedom this is when we start getting attention from the enemy of freedom and become subject to 'it's' wrath.

[BarkingBobby]

"The truth is being suppressed." says Slavestorms

You've got the audacity to say this, knowing that your views are allowed in a public forum like youtube? ABSURD!

The age of information has done nothing to suppress your point of view. People today can present their arguments in the worldwide arena of debate like never before.

If there was some worldwide NWO conspiracy, they must be idiots to allow this. Or maybe somebody else is the idiot.

[Slavestorms]

It's called a liberal dialog. You can say anything you want. The illusion of free speech must be maintained. It just never makes the major media. They have their experts and if you ask them, people say blah blah blah. War is inevitable, a whole lot of people are going to have to die so come on and rally round the flag. Forget about your fellow man and just worry about yourself. If we win there will be peace and prosperity, same as it ever was

There is no access to debate. Orders come from above

[Nogard229]

Is the illusion of peace the same as peace? If it is then why can't the illusion of free speech be the same as free speech?

Is war bad, and why?

[Slavestorms]

Peace is a state of mind not a state of America. It's what you are programmed & told to beLIEve it is. War is peace, America goes to war for peace & democracy. We live in a democracy, what are you going to do, vote? Yah right

Free speech is inherent. You are free to say what you have been indoctrinated to say. If you question things & speak too loudly you may end up like JFK, MX, MLK, RFK, Vince Foster, Paul O'Neil, Paul Wellstone, Gary Webb or Daniel Pearl

War is divisive.

[Nogard229]

I applaud your performance, but you didn't answer my question, so let me rephrase it for you.

Is the illusion of free speech the same as free speech, or is the illusion of freewill the same as freewill?

This is a possible solution:

Although they are both illusions, In either case the subject experiencing the illusions will not be able to tell the difference, meaning free speech is the same as the illusion of free speech. Are there any differences?

[jesusgrc1762]

@Slavestorms I couldn't agree more. I just can't help but think of the greatest invisible chain inflicted on a "free society". It's called the income tax. How ironic that this exists in the very country that fought against it to begin with. Freedom of speech, religion, etc are just mere distractions that make the cage seem larger.

[mcmcerson]

@Slavestorms and ghandi even though he wasnt american.

[RedinTheOtter]

However, maybe thats what they want you to think. "Wow they are allowing it, this must all be false." =)

[BarkingBobby]

Well, then they deserve the world. And we get our little piece of it with our homes, cars and cable TVs. NWO? You GO GIRL!

[AntiSocialTroll]

@suchafool990 congrats you win the award for junior G man of the month, make sure they note your porn consumption habbits involving gnomes, and asians.

I have a habbit of downloading farming instrument calendars with scantly clad wimminz.

[dinkolino2]

all psychology is ad hominem

[schinoy]

all right

[itisnthealthy]

How is that??

[dinkolino2]

how else could it be?

[AbsotivelyNothingful]

Information bias.

[Revgirl5]

wow this is great....thanks!

[dinkolino2]

it seems to me he is gathering data to support the theory of cognitive dissonance.. he has to make a living as a mish-mash psychiatrist scharlatan

[schinoy]

yes, hence the definition of a theory and hence psychology is a science.

your argument is ad hominem.

[dinkolino2]

as much as his

[briankofke]

Awesome comments on the right; spot on buddy! It is my hope that we will find this gathering place without even searching.

[creten69]

#4 but then #13 is a little off as actual sleeping and dreaming is the way for everyone to be everyone.

[hopeforamerika]

This is a great video and the notes (to the right) are wonderful.

[barrywilliamsmb]

I think cognitive dissonance is the homeostasis of our minds.

My life forever changed when I learned about CD'ing and being a home boy. As soon as I realized who was creating the resistance to Kaizen in my experience, it was a hail of a lot easier for me to move ahead.

Awareness is an awesome trip and boy, do I enjoy watching videos like this and then checking out the commenters. Intellectual voyeurism man - that's what life is all about!

Thanks Slavestorms.

[canadianbacon007]

Also known as the fallable human syndrome,aka meeting choices, and making them. Big whoopie, opposition in all things. It's an old and universal concept. Humans realizing we are part of nature too. Who could have guessed.

[dnHooligan]

NICE.

[Domzdream]

cognitive dissonance= religion and science. One is documented fact the other is not.

[Clockworkforest]

That is a reaction in line with cognitive dissonance theory.

We all see what we want to, is the best summary of cognitive dissonance. Everyone is effected by cognitive dissonance, including scientists (just another belief system).

[FSPDJ1]

This is absolutely true. Nobody wants to be a loser. The difference is that an opinion based on cognitive dissonance Usually can be picked apart. An opinion based on fact will get abused and dumbed down by the cognitive dissonant, but in time will be shown as truth to a clear thinker.

The argument For a Government society keeps getting pushed over and over again but the clear thinker might realize that over the last 2000 years, Every Country that has tried it either has or is a failure.

[Clockworkforest]

I like that you bring up clarity of thinking, a dusty concept now a days.

[FSPDJ1]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a dusty concept but I would agree with you in that "nowadays", anything goes, it's all about me, I'm entitled and God be *@!&#^ if he gets in the way. "That" is the kind of thinking that has always doomed Any society to death. My impression of "clear" thinking is more along the lines of green/red or yes/no. While the rest of them are contemplating whether the crazy man in the classroom is going to detinate the bomb I'm trying to get a bead on his forehead.

[Clockworkforest]

I hear you.

Clarity of thinking:

/watch?v=mpJcn0Otk7I

Yes though, I agree that it appears that people do not judge themselves beyond the most shallow of degrees.

[Slavestorms]

Opinion to some is truth.