Posted on 02/06/2017 6:57:40 PM PST by MtnClimber
Ignoring the politics of it for the moment, check out this video of Sam Harris debating Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s Real Time show. I’ll teach you how to spot cognitive dissonance in the clip.
Watch for the moment Ben has to hallucinate Sam’s opinion from the reasonable position that many Muslims worldwide have non-liberal views to an hallucination about “All Muslims are bad.” Sam and Bill both clarify their viewpoints, with data, but Ben is struck deaf to it. All he can hear is the absurd absolute “all.” He is literally hallucinating.
I mean that literally. If you asked him after the show what happened, his memory would be sketchy. Ben is both smart and well-informed, relative to the general population and Hollywood in particular. If you think he’s being dumb here, you’re wrong. It just looks that way. This is a literal hallucination.
Cool, right?
The tells for cognitive dissonance in this case:
1. Smart person (Affleck) unexpectedly encounters a far smarter person (Harris). Apparently Ben didn’t read Harris’ bio before engaging. Oops.
2. Harris uses data to make Ben’s argument fall apart. Ben is smart, and knowledgeable, and his ego does not recognize that he could be annihilated on television in this way. This is the trigger for cognitive dissonance. His ego spontaneously generates a literal hallucination to protect his self-image.
3. The hallucination involves turning Harris’ reasonable statement that is backed with data into an absurd absolute about “all Muslims.” Nothing can talk Affleck out of this misinterpretation. He is in full hallucination mode.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...
Please watch the video. Most liberal politicians are either the puppet masters or the believers in non truth. Even Bill Mahr was making arguments that were rejected by Ben hasben.
Also anyone who divorces Jennifer Garner should have their head examined.
Sam Adams blog? I think you meant Scott Adams Blog. ;-)
Although being compared to Sam Adams is pretty nice!
“Cognitiv3e dissonance” is just another term for Satan’s influence forcing people to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.
For later.
You are right, Scott Adams Blog!!! I was also watching TV and probably had cognitive dissonance telling me I wanted a Sam Adams in my hand, though I could not cognitnativavly perceive that I did not.
I totally agree. It is an alignment with untruth.
Made it only halfway through video...was painfully embarrassed for Affleck.
The congressional dermoRATs are just as delusional or else they wish to bring turmoil. Both are leftist tactic.
I was reading the story, and said to myself: "Self, this sound JUST like Scott Adams. Who is this "Sam Adams" guy?"
A Sam Adams in the hand is worth a case of Bud Light in the frig.
Very good!
“Sam Adams” blog?
A lot of the "discussion" on FR and anywhere else on the web is the same sort of joke.
The days talking points, hip meme of the week, change the subject rather than answer a question, broad accusations unrelated to what was said, and so on.
Now getting to the real issue, no, your vaccum cleaner won't suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch so why did you say it would?
;-)
Fascinating video. The take away was that only a Leftist can dare to speak truth to Leftists, and sometimes even that doesn’t work, as this video demonstrates.
I watched half of the vid and couldn’t take it any more. Watching even Steele show forth proudly his ignorance is just too much. Is it even ignorance? or is it just the liberal belief that reality s a mental construct and non utopian situations and people are just the result people having bigoted thoughts. We all only need to get get our thoughts adjusted and we will be transported to Utopia.
You’re right — the video is from October 2014.
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