Teaching Children About Cognitive Dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is a condition that I had never heard about until the subject of the American MAGA syndrome started the conversation of how and why these people had slipped from reality and appeared unsavable.

Common events that, when logic was applied, would render a consensus of conclusions did not function with this crowd. They defied all logical thinking. They ignored their own best interests and the best interests of their children. It seemed as if survival instincts had been altered and manipulated. They appear under the response of the a threat that awakens the primal instinct to fight or flight. They sure are fighting. They fight imaginary windmills.

It’s impossible to determine if their condition can be reversed or remedied in any way. Since we now know of the existence of cognitive dissonance and the cause being decades on subliminal messages from political groups such as the NRA, the Churches and the constant bombardment from Fox Entertainment, it may be a good time to think how we save our children from this other mental predatory pandemic.

The best example I have encountered so far to determine how you personally use cognitive dissonance is the cigarette smoker who reads the health warning on the cigarette box about how it causes cancer and decides to smoke these cigarettes in spite of the warning with the knowledge that the warning is real. The smoker cannot break with his/her desire and therefore ignores facts that could save the smokers life.

We apply this same principle of evasion to destructive relationships, how we manage our diet, how we manage our finances and just about everything else. People in better control of themselves catch the error of their ways and commit to changes. Others are more gullible and become entrapped in the scheme that wants to own them.

This circle of deceit could possible be broken if we start by recognizing the existence and importance of cognitive dissonance and work towards freeing future generations from it’s mind numbing chains. Time is of essence. This mental impairment is running rampant throughout society and it wants to claim every single one of us.