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To: ericthecurdog
If this is directed at me, then I concur that your screen name is accurate. If this is NOT directed at yours truly, them I most humbly beg your forgiveness for my previous remark.
25 posted on 06/07/2002 12:25:48 PM PDT by KentuckyWoman
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To: KentuckyWoman,kevinjdeanna, nonliberal, PurVirgo, Tomalak, WillaJohns, GADIST64, NJ Freeper, Fut
Great Post.

Pinging Young Freepers!

Those who slam the idea of a NWO are experiencing Cognitive Dissonance. To entertain the notion that something sinister may be after control of you and yours, you have to challenge your belief system. Read what you can, take what you can digest and leave the rest. It takes time, but the truth is worth it. I think anyone who has become aware of this movement, started out trying to debunk it, which is understandable.

Try a google search of Cognitive Dissonance that to see why there are blinders on your brain. Young people indeed need to know they have a right to question and debate issues, and need not just accept everything they are told to be the truth.

Chapter 16
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
of Leon Festinger
Festinger considered the human need to avoid dissonance as basic as the need for safety or the need to satisfy hunger. It is an aversive drive that goads us to be consistent. The tension of dissonance motivates us to change either our behavior or our belief in an effort to avoid a distressing feeling. The more important the issue and the greater the discrepancy between behavior and belief, the higher the magnitude of dissonance that we will feel. In extreme cases cognitive dissonance is like our cringing response to fingernails being scraped on a blackboard—we’ll do anything to get away from the awful sound. Any young people care to comment on this?

26 posted on 06/07/2002 1:32:37 PM PDT by madfly
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