Scott Adams on Cognitive Dissonance

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28 September, 2007

I see this all the time in the blogosphere.

Besides dissonance, I think many people have a hard time tackling complexity and nuance. It’s much easier to have a simple position consisting of absolute values, and then to view everything through the prism of that worldview.

(Link via Silk-list. Related columns by me: Reason vs Rationalisation. The Comfort of a Worldview.)

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