Hey Bob, thanks for this beautiful question. I can't speak for Nabby but NO, I can't truthfully say "all the wankers on FFL", but I can definitely say truthfully that "Bob and Barry" are too un-evolved to have realized experiences and employ CD denial techniques to rationalize their ignorance.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > I hope this will be my last post about cognitive dissonance (CD). I figure if I can get > some answers to this question I'll have both hemispheres firing and I can move on > to the FFL script we're working on or better yet my first "Zombie in My Gas Tank" > interview. > > Preamble > > > If  Leon Festinger (major cognitive dissonance thinker) were to say to me: > "you and Fitzgerald are full of crap. The theory does not include some people > being better at sustaining the discomfort caused by holding two > conflicting ideas in the mind at one time. The theory states that people (as in all) > have a motivational drive to reduce the dissonance (discomfort) and employ > techniques (primarily denial) to reduce the discomfort. > > Question: > > If Leon said this to me and Ravi and Nabby over heard him, could they truthfully say: > "Exactly, which means all the wankers on FFL that question #1 experiences > are actually just too un-evolved to have realized experiences and employ CD > denial techniques to -not unlike the fox with sour grapes in Aesops fable, rationalize > their ignorance". > > Please see the third paragraph at this link: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance >
