Cognitive Dissonance: Is Civilisation In Retrograde?
Cognitive what? The word in itself is ironically a little trendy these days, bandied about by frustrated ‘conspiracy theorists’ as a verbal slap in the face to those ‘plugged into the
matrix’.
Justified or otherwise, cognitive dissonance – in other words conflicting attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviors which often result in a varying degrees of discomfort or confusion – is
undeniably a major reason for western society drifting further and further from anything resembling conscious, connected community and culture.
Whose fault is it anyway?
Could it be that we are passively – even at times actively – contributing to the decline of society, by refusing to take a good look at our media and peer instilled values and behaviors?
For all the modern thrills and distractions, civilisation is in retrograde and we can’t pretend it’s nothing to do with us. Cognitive dissonance is simple to spot if you’re the open-minded type –
and that probably means you’ve painstakingly wrestled through your own jigsaw puzzle of complicated emotional debris to come up with something resembling consistent moral behaviors. After all,
integrity is not exactly encouraged on the whole.
In 2015, it’s clear that we haven’t all perished in some prophesied apocalypse scenario yet, but why would we remain ‘willfully ignorant’ at a time when it’s more obvious than ever that the world
is suffering from the ill effects of our collective turning away?
Maybe because it’s uncomfortable, or dare I say just plain inconvenient? We have become used to a paradoxical situation where we unconsciously seek out comfort in a very uncertain world, yet we
have become so cushioned in our self-created bubbles that we appear to have forgotten that there is anything else going on outside them, or that we even had a reason for creating them in the
first place.
Here are some of the ways in which need to get a collective grip if we want 2015 to be an improvement. Cognitive dissonance kicks in when we start to convince ourselves that we don’t indulge in
such behaviors; realistically, it’s to be expected that we’re all guilty of a few of them, but January is as good a time as any to get self aware… and that doesn’t mean:
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Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/01/civilization-in-retrograde-are-we-collectively-destroying-the-moral-fiber-of-society/
