The JFK Research Site

4/9/2008

"That which is most simple and obvious is the hardest to fathom".

--Edgar Allen Poe

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The Disease of Cowardice to Fight Evil Men: COGDIS

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because most people don't want to admit they don't have the courage to do anything about it. Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all"

--Michael Rivero

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

--Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 B.C. - 347 B.C.)

"A true patriot is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins".

--Frederick Douglas on REAL patriotism

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."

--German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

--2 Timothy 1:7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one's beliefs.

In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one's beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where "cognition" is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.

In popular usage, it can be associated with the tendency for people to resist information that they don't want to think about, because if they did it would create cognitive dissonance, and perhaps require them to act in ways that depart from their comfortable habits. They usually have at least partial awareness of the information, without having moved to full acceptance of it, and are thus in a state of denial about it.