Cognitive Dissonance (War After Unnamed War)
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_ Music: April 29 - May 2, 2019. Text: Feb., 2014 ~~ COGNITIVE DISSONANCE At least we knew when bullets flew where bodies might lie: in a retreat from folly outfitted. Our chance of death grew closer the earlier we learned to repeat what was marked on the page. Though in church no death -- a hard pew only -- our school texts tallied wars, and whose rage succeeded; they advanced a point of view till next dispute. In this way we were made obsolete, and in each place two (or more) shot into a conscription, a furled flagsweep, untangled from Thou Shalt Not. Though I would prefer engagement be sought not for bloody naught, my neighbor speaks as if asleep: war after unnamed war, slogans taught, some vague notion of a Holy See. ~~ Cognitive dissonance, the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. The unease or tension that the conflict arouses in people is relieved by one of several defensive maneuvers: they reject, explain away, or avoid the new information; persuade themselves that no conflict really exists; reconcile the differences; or resort to any other defensive means of preserving stability or order in their conceptions of the world and of themselves. The concept was developed in the 1950s by American psychologist Leon Festinger and became a major point of discussion and research. ~~
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