Cognitive dissonance isn’t just a glib insult to taunt reality-averse shitlibs; it’s also a serious mental disorder which our shitlib brethren could manage with many years of therapy.
Cognitive Dissonance and the Liberal Mind (via Kevin MacDonald)
Liberals are nothing if not morally smug and self-righteous. So they engage mental gymnastics to avoid changing their beliefs when confronted, e.g., with Muslim treatment of women. This article nails it.
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Dissonance produced when holding mutually exclusive beliefs is actually nothing short of a form of mental trauma. Facts that challenge one’s self-identity as a morally righteous person can result in agony, producing a feeling of desperation akin to starvation or intense thirst.
Unsurprisingly then, the resulting discomfort can push the sufferer to great lengths of irrational and extreme behavior in order to obtain relief. Understanding cognitive dissonance, therefore, may go far in explaining our opponents’ aggressiveness and, given the growing unreality of today’s society, their increasingly toxic and desperate behavior.
Ironically, the smarter shitlibs tend to be the ones most afflicted by acute cogdis. They have to do something useful with those superfluous IQ points, and reconciling their false beliefs with reality, utilizing an increasingly complex and byzantine system of ego-assuaging rationalizations, allows them to “blow off” some insula-dominant steam.
For this reason, I don’t think the shitlib cogdis problem will resolve itself any time soon. There’s too much at stake for shitlibs, and in fact a number of them get a thrill from concealing and warping reality behind a funhouse mirror of sophistry. Many shitlibs love the feeling they get from “getting one over” on normals, and to do this convincingly shitlibs have to first get one over on themselves.
Shitlib cogdis is therefore both pleasurable and painful to them. More painful for some, more pleasurable for others. The smartest shitlibs feel something akin to accomplishment when they can successfully reorient a commonsensical framing of a simple issue into a twisted degenerate over-complicated facsimile of the issue.
The only permanent solution to shitlib cogdis is societal cataclysm that drives them underground, where they can freak to their hearts’ content without subverting healthy society. Hypothetically, there is a threshold of mental anguish and self-abasement beyond which even a shitlib with a PhD in poopytalk can’t tolerate, and we may be reaching that threshold as evidenced by the unhinged attacks of shitlibs against plain speaking heretics, and the stepped-up intensity of gaslighting and deplatforming of dissident realtalkers.
The crazy person is craziest right at the moment of therapeutic breakthrough.
Provoking shitlib agony has the opposite effect for realtalkers… it is a source of tremendous amusement. Studies have repeatedly shown that conservatives are happier than liberals. It is because what conservatives believe is congruent with observable reality.
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You are giving them too much credit. Unhappy people become liberals in order to hurt happy people.
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The liberals are always pointing to Uncle Adolf as the “greatest evil”, but the greatest evil (as proven through history) is when the liberals (and their close cousins, the Communists) gain power. They truly make life a living hell for their own nation’s citizens, placing them below the “other”, and the value of human life is zero if you are not a true “party member”. The liberals readily aligned themselves with Joe Stalin, made excuses for his conduct, and denied his genocidal atrocities were occurring. True evil cognitive dissonance. As Trump noted, these people CANNOT be trusted with the reins of power.
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YES.
And I worked in medicine for years; clinical for about two, so my word is gold.
Most people are nuts, esp. in the military.
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What do you label someone that doesn’t fit any of the diagnostic criteria in the multiple versions of the DSM-N and ICD-N?
This is serious question by the way.
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Oh I’m sure the (((doctors))) that vote on whether something should be entered into the DSM will invent some category.
Now, of course there is such a thing as a psychiatric disorder but most stuff in the DSM is bullshit and just invented. Just normal reactions to stress or depression that every normal person experiences that (((they))) turn into a pathology. I’d guess that at least 1/2 of the 50k psychiatrists in the US are seltzer drinkers.
I don’t know if many of you know this but in the DSM there is an appendix and these are things that a psychiatrist should Not consider a mental disorder depending on your culture.
For example, if someone from Haiti said he was possessed by the devil because an evil person put a voodoo spell on him and is trying to make him into a zombie because he’s really a King that would be normal. If a westerner did this he’d be a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur.
It would be like going to a doctor and he tells you your BP is 200/150 but it’s ok because you’re from Tonga and it’s normal.
Not much of a science here.
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Dr.Benway:
For example, if someone from Haiti said he was possessed by the devil because an evil person put a voodoo spell on him and is trying to make him into a zombie because he’s really a King that would be normal. If a westerner did this he’d be a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur.
It would be like going to a doctor and he tells you your BP is 200/150 but it’s ok because you’re from Tonga and it’s normal.
Not much of a science here.
Doc, I know that headshrinker practice is (((irreproducible pseudoscience))) as superstitious as palmistry, and peddled as yet another religion (with legal force) by the international tribe of priests; but you are not making your case here.
When anthropology was still a scientific discipline, it was well-known that nigger thought processes are radically different than a White man’s. In particular, niggers are extremely superstitious by White standards—because niggers are fundamentally animistic. They lack a clear distinction between what White men deem “natural” versus “mystical”.
This is why, as still acknowledged (with various excuses) by today’s “anthropologists”, many tribal niggers can be physically killed by a witch-doctor’s curse. Their subjective perceptions of reality so accept the curse as real as to cause what cannot be other than a psychosomatic reaction, with lethal results. White men are powerful beings who are inexplicably immune to witch-doctor curses; this must have gained the White man some respect in Africa, until the White man showed himself to be a contemptibly weak, submissive fool who gives away free food.
If a White man so completely believed in a curse that the belief could cause his body to physiologically cease functioning, then you would say that that man had a mental defect—perhaps some type of schizophrenia. It’s severely abnormal, by White standards. But it is perfectly normal for niggers. If the DSM makes allowance for this, that is not the problem—the problem, rather, is that it makes anti-exceptions for Whites by deliberately pathologizing normal White behaviors (including sexually-specific behaviors in both sexes).
Moreover, although a BP of 200/150 may be abnormal (and potentially lethal) for any race, you as a physician should know that the races have significant physiological differences: Quite different requirements for various nutrients (e.g. Vitamin D), different rates of childhood development, different susceptibility to various diseases (including HIV transmission through normal heterosexual copulation), very different tolerances for some drugs (and alcohol!)—and of course, drastically different IQ means and standard deviations. The brain is indeed an organ of the body. Physiologically, morphologically, and mentally, the races are overall so different that all reputable scientists from Linnaeus forward considered them to be different species, before the taxonomy was fixed by political fiat on one so-called “Homo sapiens”.
Racially unaware medicine is actually gross malpractice on a grand scale, a part of the cost of political correctness; but that’s another discussion…
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I should add: Failure to adequately account for race in drug design, clinical trials, and prescribing practice is one of my (many) complaints against the medical establishment generally, and Big Pharma in particular.
N.b. “adequately”. Yes, I know that there is some consideration of racial differences; it’s minimized, and not nearly enough. And I know that some drugs are considered more or less race-specific; this gives the shitlibs fits, and only occurs where the racial difference is so extremely drastic that it cannot be papered over in a mass of statistics, at the cost of patient health. So much of modern medicine is based on Procrustean statistical formulae that fit masses of hominids into an acceptable range based on an “eh, good enough” standard, which I suppose is understandable in a mass-man society so stupid and self-destructive that it can accept democracy as a form of government.
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@Aristarchus
I’m not disagreeing with what you wrote but these are the same people who will claim that race(group) is a social construct. These seltzer drinkers probably do know there’s a difference but will try to mask it as some sort of cultural difference instead of just saying there are racial differences.
That example was for Africans but there are some that apply to Orientals. Like Koro where the patient has the delusion that his penis is retracting into his body and will disappear and will tie it to the bedpost or have relatives watch it while he’s asleep.
Then there’s Bang-utot where a dozen cases are reported in Manila every year of people dying in their sleep due to a nightmare.
I think though that are Oriental delusions may have some physical cause like Koro being circulatory and Bang-utot due to central sleep apnea(rare because most is obstructive apnea)
The point though is that these things are viewed differently. If I were to tell a psych that my dick was disappearing or that I’m worrying about dying from a nightmare it would be different from a Chinaman saying the same thing.
And btw, everyone on earth today is Homo sapiens, not another species. You’re forgetting though that modern man is actually a unique subspecies called Homo sapiens sapiens (the 2nd sapiens being the subspecies)
So while the Negro or Bantu group may be H sapiens they may not be the subspecies H sapiens sapiens.
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@Aristarchus
I wouldn’t call them race specific drugs but there are some drugs that are used by everyone that may work better for Negroes, like drugs for hypertension.
There may be a difference in how their bodies handle sodium. If you outside in the hot Summer working or exercising etc sweating you may need to take a salt pill or suffer serious consequences. Negroes may have adapted to this by conserving sodium although anyone at a certain point can have an electrolyte problem.
Living in a more temperate area from their W African origin, even blacks living in cool parts of Africa or the north may be a problem with BP especially if eating salty Euro diets.
Watermelons and other melons may be good for them because there’s no sodium and a lot of clean fluid. If you say this you are a racist :o)
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Haha, you’re very optimistic 🙂 no they will carry cogdis to their graves. Hopefully the apocalyptic flammenwerfer can be programmed to detect a certain threshold of cogdis and target its heat accordingly.
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Omfg
PhD in poopytalk
He he he
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Cogdis for the right is believing since young you team is greatest
Then the crushing reality it is the greatest evil ever known
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Off topic, but has anyone been able to access AE’s blog over at Unz today? Says page doesn’t exist.
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After the déluge, those crazy -isms will be looked upon as temporary derangements.
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Let em swim
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“Therapeutic Breakthrough” is one possibility. Another is the “great delusion” of Biblical prophecy.
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Psychiatry is such a farce. They have no diagnostic code for Does Not have a Mental Illness in any of the DSMs. Literally everything is a symptom. They even dried to add the crash that comes after having a cup of coffee be added as a mental illness. The DSM and ICD is a tool of the weak to fool the stupid to think there’s something wrong with the strong.
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Those codes are actually billing codes.
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The Liberal Extension of “Two Truths”
From the article:
So they engage mental gymnastics to avoid changing their beliefs when confronted, e.g., with Muslim treatment of women.
Why pathologize what can be perfectly well explained as ordinary religious behavior?
Liberalism is a mystical religion without the benefit of gods or an afterlife. It is based on a devout Faith in things that cannot be observed in reality, and even contradict observed reality—for the most obvious and blatant example, “human equality”. This is why a liberal can almost never be dissuaded from his beliefs by facts and logic: Premises of Faith can almost never be assailed by Reason.
Just as various Christian denominations (including some of the most eminent and intelligent Christian scholars in history) have had a “Two Truths” doctrine explicitly dividing the spheres of Faith and Reason, the liberals not only accept such a doctrine impliedly, but extend it to an unlimited relativism. This perfectly well explains how feminists can accept Muslims’ treatment of women. There is a truth for “us”, a truth for “them”, a truth for men, a truth for women, a truth for Ugly Oppressor Privileged Whites, a truth for Noble Niggers, etc., ad nauseam. All of these truths are more or less matters of Faith, without even a hint of Reason.
Now, examine how liberals assiduously avoid following Darwin to his logical conclusions. Darwinism is perforce “racist” (and indeed, Charles Darwin himself was quite a “racist”). Liberals cherry-pick bits of Darwin they feel are useful for an attack on Christianity, embrace those parts as articles of Faith, and call any full application of Reason on this subject a “racist pseudoscience”. Is this a matter of “mental gymnastics” or “cognitive dissonance”? Or are they simply doing the equivalent of what Christians do to reconcile Biblical Creation stories with modern science?
Christians, what we have here is matter of the mote and the beam. I do not intend that as a criticism; and I am aware that most devout Christians are proud of their Faith as such, even when it contradicts their Reason. Rather, I invite you to see clearly: If you want to convert liberals, understand foremost that you are assailing their Faith and must somehow unravel it. Reason will not work. Neither will pathologization, which is a liberal-Jewish “schtick”. There is no easy answer.
A Faith can be assailed by the moral force of a more powerful Faith; but that will succeed only in some cases. It can also be eaten away by Doubt. You probably know of at least a few cases where some liberal began having doubts about the equality of niggers and Whites; they typically respond with some ritualized means of reassuring themselves of their own Faith, lest they be damned as “racist”. What is ultimately needed in each case is a religious epiphany, i.e. conversion from one Faith to another. Men who genuinely abandon all Faith are extremely rare, and such women are even rarer. Pretend otherwise at your peril.
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I’m not a follower of the Galilean Guru but let me correct one thing you said about Faith. It isn’t just blind Faith.
If you believe that Jesus is a god and rose from the dead then you can believe that what he said and everything else is true based on faith that he’s a god.
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In other posts, I’ve oft spoken of Faith as a matter of premises. Yes, indeed, what rises from that foundation may be (but is usually not!) a structure of perfectly sound logic. If you really want an eye-opener on this point, dig into some Biblical Flat Earth material. Those folks actually have much sounder arguments than the Young Earth Creationists, who are intellectually sloppy lightweights by comparison. The only way I can disagree with them is on premises!
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180 Post and top kek. 100% on point.
One thing that always drives me fucking nuts is when moderates and normies start in with the logic & reason approach that is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes. Then they cannot wrap their mind around how someone can be so blind or have such insane double standards.
When you view leftism as the radical religious cult that it is, it all snaps into place. They really aren’t doing anything new too which is the interesting part. When you kill God, you will find a replacement of some sort. And we have history books full of seriously irrational shit done in the name of the religion of the choice for whomever.
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It’s all just a trick used to manipulate people.
It’s doublethink as in 1984 and although it was supposed to be about a totalitarian state in the future Orwell likely had the (((marxists))) in mind.
It’s funny but after Trump won the election they tried to use this 1984 stuff on him like he was Big Brother lol
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Beaut of a post.
Craziest at the point of a breakthrough into reality, or death.
True adults, who accept the very hard realities of life, and therefore true responsibilities unto Life and Love, make sure they build a society in which the crazies are identified and that choice between Reality and Death is made very, very clear to them.
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You not making sense of are u saying America has not been able to build a society of love yet
Because they have not identified the abortiom
Doctors and removed them yet
Like people that actually kill
Babies every day
Yet Will idemtity other people as bring crazy
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It is indeed a good piece. A thoughtful and illustrative analysis of the mechanics of the broken mental state of our enemies.
But also sheds light on the dangers of a pathology that is both serpentine and robust in the face of observable truths.
The entrenched ego investment of the leftoid religion of death is something to behold.
For me, this issue is what drew me across the forbidden red pill rubicon: where intersexual dynamics and politics share the same root system.
I just won’t accept that a man can call himself red pill as it relates to women and mating but play host to some variant of the liberal virus.
Na, you can’t salt the earth and then redpill your way into golden fields of wheat.
There are sides. If the blackpills are right, soon the reckoning will cull the truth from the ether of our comfortable delusions and the gradients will grow stark.
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Smollet Charged With Felony
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/police-jussie-smollett-now-a-suspect-for-filing-a-false-police-report/ar-BBTSqxv?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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When I saw this I gave myself a Barney Stintson like ‘self 5’.
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Another thing about the common shitlib is that she doesn’t believe in demons possessing the powerful and so when zhe attacks someone like Trump it is all simply a hysterical rant about a mundanely crooked “racist, sexist, anti-Semite homophobe,” ie., a “white supremacist.”
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