An excellent article by CGI member, oldcurmudgeon. CGI is RMN's readers forum.

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Cognitive dissonance – what is it, and why should I care?

As this ever more rapidly global nightmare unfolds, and the truth about this so called “virus” and the “vaccine” to deal with it, morphs into a full blow crisis we need to consider many things in order to maintain both our sanity and our safety. And one of these things that we need to take very seriously is the well-known physiological concept of Cognitive Dissonance. Why? Because over 100 million Americans have allowed themselves to be “jabbed” with a poison that is slowly killing them . . . BUT many of them WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS REALITY!

Cognitive dissonance is a condition where the individual’s mind is subjected to a condition where it is being forced to reconcile two, or more, mutually conflicting ideas. When this condition manifests the individual mind will seek to reconcile these differences by WHAT EVER MEANS NEEDED in order to maintain a balance with underlying personal philosophy and belief systems. In other words, “The vaccine will keep me safe, so my sickness can’t be caused by the vaccine”.

Reports are coming out – even now – about doctors and other healthcare people dismissing any suggestions that people are experiencing side effects to the “vaccine” because to do otherwise would be to accept that their whole world view is in jeopardy. Nearly all doctors are “pro vaccine” to the point of near fanaticism and to be faced with a situation where in it is the vaccine that is the problem is a “truth” that they simply cannot accept!

But it isn’t just doctors that we need to be concerned about, it is the many millions who have truly believed that they were the “smart ones” because they rushed out and got “vaccinated”. We have all seen examples of this, examples of these folks ridiculing people who challenged the idea of this “jab” being safe, or for that mater even effective, and then died a short time later. But what of the many millions who have not yet gone to that “great beyond”? They are starting to become sick, starting to show signs of physical and mental impairment, etc., but will NOT consider that it was the vaccine that did this to them – how many of them will be able to overcome their cognitive dissonance and accept their fate? How many of them will “act out”, become “irrational”, demand “answers”, and so on? And in what form will they do all of this? With violence, or some other form of socially crazy actions?

And what about those close to us, friends and family members, who smugly assured us that “they are just fine, no side effects, and now they are safe while we are the problem”? This is the stuff of nightmares! How do you deal with someone who is in the grip of manic denial? And all the more so when you dearly love them, but also know that there is nothing that can be done for them?

We all need to prepare ourselves for this horror show that is about to engulf our nation, and our world. But to do so we need to overcome our own “cognitive dissonance” and recognize that this IS GOING TO HAPPEN – we tired, they did not listen, it is not our fault, and even though we are boiling with anger and hurt, we must bone up, and do what we can with a measure of reason and calm determination . . . the future of our society depends on us doing so.