i find myself objecting to the constant misuse of the phrase cognitive dissonance, it has become a meme, people use it as if they knew something.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when a persons mouth and behavior is contradicted by their own beliefs and thoughts.
It is manifest in increased heart rate, palpitations, sweat, nervousness.
There is no way for anyone to know if a person is experiencing cognitive dissonance, because it is a personal feeling of discomfort.
Thus one can not tell if others are feeling cognitive dissonance, and the statement that cognitive dissonance has become normalized in the USA is ridiculous, unless the author has some kind of psychic powers.
For further explanation:
Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that occurs when someone holds conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. It can cause people to feel uneasy, stressed, or anxious.
Signs of cognitive dissonance
Emotional discomfort: Feeling uneasy, stressed, or anxious without a clear reason
Self-justification: Making excuses to align actions with beliefs
Avoidance: Ignoring or dismissing information that challenges current beliefs
Guilt: Feeling guilty over past decisions
Shame: Feeling shame or embarrassment regarding a decision
Wanting to be healthy but not exercising regularly or eating a nutritious diet
Knowing that smoking is harmful but continuing to smoke
Skipping exercise and sitting at a desk all day, and later feeling guilty
Working in a meat factory while being a vegetarian
How people resolve cognitive dissonance
People often change, justify, or ignore the conflicting information to resolve the tension.
People may also try to change their behavior to reduce the discomfort.
I was thinking about cognitive dissonance when I said in another message we don't know what the military is thinking when they are faced with an order to obey the commander-in-chief if Trump uses the military against citizens. Soldiers are individuals, and resolving a soldier's cognitive dissonance might mean they will change their behavior to reduce the discomfort—decide not to obey—thereby influencing the members to join them.
As a retired member of a special ops unit, and enlisted then as team leader, I will tell you what the military thinks and feels..Nothing they obey orders.
Mutiny within the ranks is virtually unheard of.
if they obey orders there is no cognitive dissonance, if they refuse to obey orders, then they are guilty of either mutiny, if en masse, or a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and will be court martialed.
Here is a personal example of cognitive dissonance and how it is dealt with.
I converted to Catholicism to please my ex wife, she wanted to get married in the Iglesia San Jose, aka Church of the Golden Altar. I really didn't believe, but I became a fanatic traditional Catholic, a Knight of Columbus, and a member of a trad rad croup, that celebrated underground Latin Masses.. That was my way of dealing with cognitive dissonance. I had even flirted with becoming Greek Orthodox and attended their masses.
A soldier who is given orders to act against is own conscience and belief will experience all of the physical signs I mentioned., and suffer PTSD.
Mr. Farrar, when I was in ROTC training to become a lieutenant in the infantry, we learned from guys returning from Vietnam that the life of a lieutenant as short. The major cause of their death was murder by their own men. It was called "fragging." This was one of the bits of information which convinced me of the terrible power of the military to ruin the life of a young man. Having said that; I must add that the four most honorable men I have ever known were infantry, combat veterans. Two served in WW1 and two in Vietnam.
The actual incidents of fragging were few, from what I have heard, no more than two.
On the other hand there were a lot of troops, not just Lt's killed by friendly fire.
when yo are in combat, the last thing you want is to have your safety and mission compromised by some asshole, and a lot of people lose it under stress, and there is no stress like being under fire.
A smart Lt (butter bar), as soon as he is assigned a unit, will quickly glom onto the senior enlisted member, if in a platoon it would be the lst Sergeant
My Dad was a Warrant Officer and adjutant of the 1st Joint Assault signal company in the Pacific, (5th Amphib, 4th MarDiv). He was sent to Platoon Leaders Class in preparation for the invasion of Japan, but Japan surrendered, though commissioned he was RIFed (reduction in force) down to his enlisted rank which was MSgt) and as such he was called as cadre (lst Sgt) of the remobilized 1st MarDiv (Guadalcanal), Easy Company 2/7th. If he hadn't been riffed he would have been either a battalion commander or on the division staff.
But when he was a butter bar, he was just another butter bar, despite his part in winning the Solomon's and Marshall's.
I was an E-7 when I was commissioned, quite a let down, basically starting all over. no one not even the enlisted who knew me, considered me anything but an ignorant and naive butter bar. I had a Lt Col, who wanted me to marry his teenage daughter. gad I was recently divorced, had three children of my own, but he saw a young naive butter bar.
I led a small team, and my senior NCO treated me like a typical butter bar, I made the big decisions (of which there were really none) and me made the little ones, basically I sat behind a desk, while he ran the team.
After I got promoted to a silver bar, a fresh, untested, didn't know Jack Captain was assigned to my team for mentoring, he worked for me for a couple of months until he got his feet on the ground, and then took over command.
But I have o confess, that if I had ever parachuted into a really hot situation, there was one enlisted person on my team that would have died from friendly fire.
i find myself objecting to the constant misuse of the phrase cognitive dissonance, it has become a meme, people use it as if they knew something.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when a persons mouth and behavior is contradicted by their own beliefs and thoughts.
It is manifest in increased heart rate, palpitations, sweat, nervousness.
There is no way for anyone to know if a person is experiencing cognitive dissonance, because it is a personal feeling of discomfort.
Thus one can not tell if others are feeling cognitive dissonance, and the statement that cognitive dissonance has become normalized in the USA is ridiculous, unless the author has some kind of psychic powers.
For further explanation:
Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that occurs when someone holds conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. It can cause people to feel uneasy, stressed, or anxious.
Signs of cognitive dissonance
Emotional discomfort: Feeling uneasy, stressed, or anxious without a clear reason
Self-justification: Making excuses to align actions with beliefs
Avoidance: Ignoring or dismissing information that challenges current beliefs
Guilt: Feeling guilty over past decisions
Shame: Feeling shame or embarrassment regarding a decision
Wanting to be healthy but not exercising regularly or eating a nutritious diet
Knowing that smoking is harmful but continuing to smoke
Skipping exercise and sitting at a desk all day, and later feeling guilty
Working in a meat factory while being a vegetarian
How people resolve cognitive dissonance
People often change, justify, or ignore the conflicting information to resolve the tension.
People may also try to change their behavior to reduce the discomfort.
I was thinking about cognitive dissonance when I said in another message we don't know what the military is thinking when they are faced with an order to obey the commander-in-chief if Trump uses the military against citizens. Soldiers are individuals, and resolving a soldier's cognitive dissonance might mean they will change their behavior to reduce the discomfort—decide not to obey—thereby influencing the members to join them.
As a retired member of a special ops unit, and enlisted then as team leader, I will tell you what the military thinks and feels..Nothing they obey orders.
Mutiny within the ranks is virtually unheard of.
if they obey orders there is no cognitive dissonance, if they refuse to obey orders, then they are guilty of either mutiny, if en masse, or a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and will be court martialed.
Here is a personal example of cognitive dissonance and how it is dealt with.
I converted to Catholicism to please my ex wife, she wanted to get married in the Iglesia San Jose, aka Church of the Golden Altar. I really didn't believe, but I became a fanatic traditional Catholic, a Knight of Columbus, and a member of a trad rad croup, that celebrated underground Latin Masses.. That was my way of dealing with cognitive dissonance. I had even flirted with becoming Greek Orthodox and attended their masses.
A soldier who is given orders to act against is own conscience and belief will experience all of the physical signs I mentioned., and suffer PTSD.
Mr. Farrar, when I was in ROTC training to become a lieutenant in the infantry, we learned from guys returning from Vietnam that the life of a lieutenant as short. The major cause of their death was murder by their own men. It was called "fragging." This was one of the bits of information which convinced me of the terrible power of the military to ruin the life of a young man. Having said that; I must add that the four most honorable men I have ever known were infantry, combat veterans. Two served in WW1 and two in Vietnam.
The actual incidents of fragging were few, from what I have heard, no more than two.
On the other hand there were a lot of troops, not just Lt's killed by friendly fire.
when yo are in combat, the last thing you want is to have your safety and mission compromised by some asshole, and a lot of people lose it under stress, and there is no stress like being under fire.
A smart Lt (butter bar), as soon as he is assigned a unit, will quickly glom onto the senior enlisted member, if in a platoon it would be the lst Sergeant
My Dad was a Warrant Officer and adjutant of the 1st Joint Assault signal company in the Pacific, (5th Amphib, 4th MarDiv). He was sent to Platoon Leaders Class in preparation for the invasion of Japan, but Japan surrendered, though commissioned he was RIFed (reduction in force) down to his enlisted rank which was MSgt) and as such he was called as cadre (lst Sgt) of the remobilized 1st MarDiv (Guadalcanal), Easy Company 2/7th. If he hadn't been riffed he would have been either a battalion commander or on the division staff.
But when he was a butter bar, he was just another butter bar, despite his part in winning the Solomon's and Marshall's.
I was an E-7 when I was commissioned, quite a let down, basically starting all over. no one not even the enlisted who knew me, considered me anything but an ignorant and naive butter bar. I had a Lt Col, who wanted me to marry his teenage daughter. gad I was recently divorced, had three children of my own, but he saw a young naive butter bar.
I led a small team, and my senior NCO treated me like a typical butter bar, I made the big decisions (of which there were really none) and me made the little ones, basically I sat behind a desk, while he ran the team.
After I got promoted to a silver bar, a fresh, untested, didn't know Jack Captain was assigned to my team for mentoring, he worked for me for a couple of months until he got his feet on the ground, and then took over command.
But I have o confess, that if I had ever parachuted into a really hot situation, there was one enlisted person on my team that would have died from friendly fire.
Maybe in the Americale Division.