{"id":55814,"date":"2020-03-25T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=55814"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:34:57","slug":"bonus-qotd-cognitive-dissonance-and-the-very-very-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/03\/25\/bonus-qotd-cognitive-dissonance-and-the-very-very-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus QotD: Cognitive dissonance and the very, very<\/em> woke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Like everyone, I’m tired of the Wuhan Flu freakout. But I owe a debt to future historians to leave them a primary source, so I\u2019m going to do this last brief post on it, then move on. Unless something major<\/em> happens, this is my final word on the subject […]<\/p>\n

We’ve written a lot here on the West’s “crisis of legitimacy.” Well … this is it. Let’s break down some of the big factors in play:<\/p>\n

The first, biggest, and in some ways only factor that matters, legitimacy-wise, is cognitive dissonance<\/em><\/strong>. We spent a lot of time here back in the days arguing about whether or not it’s a real thing […] I finally took the position that it’s real, but only for stuff that rises to level of actual cognition<\/em> … which you just don’t see too much of anymore. Indeed, the whole point of Postmodern Leftism, when you come right down to it, is not having to think. Identity politics gives you The One Right Answer for most every situation; it’s just a matter of filling in the Social Justice Mad Lib. Any apparent conflict between One Right Answers is dealt with by ad hominem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

An example will probably help: Trannies vs. Feminists. Feminists, of course, are all in on The One Right Answer that “gender is just a social construction.” But Trannies actually believe<\/em> this \u2014 if you feel<\/em> you’re really a woman, then you are, your twelve-inch wang be damned. How, then, can impeccably #woke lesbians refuse to have sex with the aforesaid twelve-inch wang, since gender is just a social construction and Thundercock identifies<\/em> as a lesbian? Easy: ad hominem<\/em>. Oh, gender’s just a social construction all right … it’s just that any be-penised individual who “constructs” himself as a lesbian is lying for personal gain (#wokeness, as everyone knows, gives one the ability to read minds).<\/p>\n

This isn’t a problem for the Left as a whole, much less for our entire society, because of the tiny numbers involved. Despite showing up pretty much everywhere in popular culture, gays are a small fraction of the population. Trannies are a fraction of a fraction, and since militant lesbianism is almost entirely political anyway (lesbian bed death<\/a> is very real), about the only place this could possibly be a live issue is on the loonier college campuses.<\/p>\n

Severian, “The Real Crisis”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-03-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like everyone, I’m tired of the Wuhan Flu freakout. But I owe a debt to future historians to leave them a primary source, so I\u2019m going to do this last brief post on it, then move on. Unless something major happens, this is my final word on the subject […] We’ve written a lot here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[1364,254,196,1020,1462,997,764,1363],"class_list":["post-55814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cognitivedissonance","tag-gender","tag-lgbt","tag-progressives","tag-severian","tag-socialjustice","tag-university","tag-wuhancoronavirus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ewe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55816,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions\/55816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}