The pandemic was like a case study in cognitive dissonance of Orwellian proportions. So much about it was defined by the lies that covid spazzes told themselves to solve the broken connection between their actions and the values they preach.
Interesting remark about "the values they preach". It seems so often what is preached and what is practiced are polar opposites. Preach "inclusive" but if you lean "conservative" you are not to be tolerated. Preach "liberal" but refuse to accept any view counter to a narrowly defined acceptable narrative e.g. "freedom of choice" unless that choice involved to whom you sell your baked goods, what school your kids attend, or what caliber you choose to carry.
This too was part of Orwell's formula. More evidence Orwell was in fact a time traveler who'd been here ;-).
The pandemic was like a case study in cognitive dissonance of Orwellian proportions. So much about it was defined by the lies that covid spazzes told themselves to solve the broken connection between their actions and the values they preach.
It was also a global Asch Experiment, Stanley Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment--all delightfully rolled into one.
Exactly. Those three experiments explain how the complicit enter always enables atrocity.
https://dystopianliving.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-compliance
Interesting remark about "the values they preach". It seems so often what is preached and what is practiced are polar opposites. Preach "inclusive" but if you lean "conservative" you are not to be tolerated. Preach "liberal" but refuse to accept any view counter to a narrowly defined acceptable narrative e.g. "freedom of choice" unless that choice involved to whom you sell your baked goods, what school your kids attend, or what caliber you choose to carry.
This too was part of Orwell's formula. More evidence Orwell was in fact a time traveler who'd been here ;-).