Should that not have been,
“I dilute your noble seed, sir.”
(And then I forgot to type the closing question mark.)
Tom, so long as you eschew c…d… you can forget all the question marks you wish.
A niche in time saves Stein.
(Hello, all Asimov fans! :D)
“fucko off!”
At least go with the classics.
It actually means “A condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between one’s beliefs and one’s actions, such as opposing the slaughter of animals and eating meat.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cognitive+dissonance&r=67
So it’s actually the feelings that are a result of the inconsistancy, not the inconsistancy itself.
Well, i just did a search of my own posts and found that i’ve used the term “cognitive dissonance” four times since i joined these Boards. On one occasion i was quoting someone else, and on the other three occasions my use of the term fell squarely within the dictionary definition. For example, on one occasion i used it in a post about anti-abortion campaigners who have abortions themselves.
I feel no special need to parade the term when it’s unnecessary, but if the occasion arises, i will use it again. If we stopped using a term every time there was a complaint that some people don’t use it properly, pretty soon we’d be left with nothing to say. I don’t see why people who know what it means and how to use it properly should restrict their usage just to mollify people who don’t.
Your ideas intrique me. I’d like to learn more. Is there a newsletter to which one can subscribe?
There is a finite quantity of available synonyms when the same damn thing keeps happening. If you keep encountering the same words used to refer to something, it’s because it keeps happening.
Why not instead pit the repetition of the joint use of “Republican” and “hypocrisy”?
You want to pit this because the use of such is redundant?
Hmm. I’ve always thought it meant a kind of emotional Catch22. Like when my dad used to hit me until I stopped crying. The kind of emotional rock/hardplace that causes, what, hysteria, breakdown, etc. If not, then what’s that called?
Oh GOODY! Someone’s hijacking another thread with political partisanship! I can’t remember the last politically-driven post I’d read before that one…
Now, now, dearie, “cognitive dissonance” owes its very *existence * on this board to political threads.
Woe! Woe unto Babylon, and clueless in Gaza! It is foolish to make light of the threat of Cognitive Dissonance, the number one threat to the Republic! How can any sane and reasonable person not recognize the dire nature of this burgeoning plague! Yes, it is true that political discussion revealed the etiology of this menace, but thats only the tip of the Weissberg!
It is disheartening to carry on with this gravely important task, only to be met with mild derision, but I will soldier on! I’m just now finishing a ground-breaking paper on the clear connection between Cognitive Dissonance and the curse of post-modernist irony, and conducting negotiations to have it published in the much-esteemed New Ithaca Shopper, and will apprise you as it unfolds!
Diet Pepsi through the nostrils!!! A fellow Asimov fan!
Well, you better not use it, otherwise you’ll wind up suffering from… umm…
mental discontinuity!
Intellectual hypocrisy?
Ideological incongruency?
I am frightened. Judging from Revtim’s defininition, I suffer (oops, can’t use that word…) I have cogn…uh, I have CD. I can live with it, but the thought that I might be turning into a Republican is too much to bear.
There is hope though. I still have knee jerk reactions and I still gleefully take note of things.
If Conservatives want to talk about CD, they can always join a 12 Step Program.
Is CD really better than LP?
Thanks, Revtim, this definition goes to the heart of my dislike of the term, the fact that when we ascribe the condition to others (seldom do we ascribe it to ourselves, except in a weasly self-depreciating way perhaps), we are guessing at their mental state.
An ad hominem attack dressed up as an incontrovertible insight.
Moriah, I like ‘mental discontinuity’ - very Foucauldian. But might I suggest ‘developmental disjuncture’ as slightly more bamboozling (with the bonus of some nifty alliteration)?
Ohhh yeah. I know when I was a kid, I was incredibly envious of Sloan and his teddy.
Daniel