thinking about an example i saw last night of someone stating one of their opinions and then straightforwardly that this opinion is bad and just how bizarrely healthy that feels
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what if the problem isn't cognitive dissonance what if the problem is all the pressure to resolve cognitive dissonance for the sake of narrativizing ourselves to others
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Replying to @chaosprime
bruh. meta-cognition. ok, could you please explain what ur tweet means? so someone said "I think 'x', but my opinion is bad" and then what?
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Replying to @HMcfapp
it was basically A: people saying X sucks B: i think X, but i don't go saying it A: X is terrible tho B: yeah, some of my opinions are bad A: so say we all
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Replying to @chaosprime
so, groupthink? you're supposed to think that "X" is bad cuz person A says so?
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Replying to @HMcfapp
no, the point is that B contains conflicting opinions about X without resolving them or pretending to
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Replying to @chaosprime
ex: "I don't know whether or not Joe Biden is racist, but I won't look any further into him to develop an opinion for myself" is that it?
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Replying to @HMcfapp
kinda, that isn't really directly representing a tension, to illustrate the tension it'd be something like "i feel like i should look into whether Joe Biden is racist but i'm not going to"
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Replying to @chaosprime
Ah. so basically gosh darned fence sitters who don’t have motivation to get an opinion
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not really, the example last night was quite definitely an opinion, and not an inconsequential one your example has an opinion, it's "we need Joe Biden whether he's racist or not but i can't say that"
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