This is cognitive dissonance and is the mechanic that is fueling so much trumpism. A lot of people made a gamble that "this has to be better than status quo" and now owe the house a lot of money and have to double down or eat their losses
It's so crazy because their whole worldview revolves around indirectly telling people on the spectrum, "I would rather my child be dead than like you." But that's not even true? Like, we still take for granted that their whole ideology is fundamentally false. Children dying for literally nothing.
Makes me think of the Hozier song, Eat Your Young.
"Come and get some
Skinnin' the children for a war drum
Puttin' food on the table, sellin' bombs and guns
It's quicker and easier to eat your young"
It's a evil bit of fucking irony that humans can have kids so easily, but only like 5% of them are actually responsible enough to raise them without fucking them up, or in this case, just killing them.
Exactly. They would have to come to terms with the unthinkable.
Unfortunately this is how natural selection works. I don't say that lightly. The way we get back to herd immunity is when the weakest members of the herd die off.
It would also be admitting that they have been buying into fairytales and lies their entire lives, so yeah, they’re never going to admit that they were wrong. It’s too scary to admit that you may have been wrong about your entire world view so it’s easier to just stay with it.
Cognitive dissonance: Psychological discomfort of conflict between thoughts/beliefs/feelings/values & behavior.
To alleviate the discomfort, people modify behavior so it aligns w/their beliefs/values…...or they modify beliefs/perspective so it aligns w/their behavior.
The degree to which a person is willing/able to modify their perspective is often directly related to their ability to rationalize the dissonant behavior/beliefs.
there's gonna be a deep-dive New Yorker article into the family and the community background that's going to explain how fucked up the American psych is and it's going to stop just short of criticizing capitalism
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"Come and get some
Skinnin' the children for a war drum
Puttin' food on the table, sellin' bombs and guns
It's quicker and easier to eat your young"
Unfortunately this is how natural selection works. I don't say that lightly. The way we get back to herd immunity is when the weakest members of the herd die off.
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To alleviate the discomfort, people modify behavior so it aligns w/their beliefs/values…...or they modify beliefs/perspective so it aligns w/their behavior.
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