{"id":57687,"date":"2020-06-06T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57687"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:21:44","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/06\/cognitive-dissonance-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive dissonance is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gurney had a discussion with one of his readers that left him shaking his head in disbelief:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had an interaction today with a reader that&#39;s indicative of a lot of things that are wrong with our society and why we can&#39;t have nice things. A short (promise) thread.<\/p>\n<p>The reader had read something I&#39;d written a few months ago that was mildly critical of a conservative. +<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgurney\/status\/1268706871499776000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The reader haughtily asked if I&#8217;d ever make such a criticism for a Liberal.<\/p>\n<p>I said yes.<\/p>\n<p>The reader didn&#8217;t believe me, and said, oh yeah, show me an example?<\/p>\n<p>As it so happened, I actually had a column of mine open in another tab; I was referring back to it for research. +<br \/>\n&mdash;<br \/>\nThe column in question contained a perfect example of me saying a very comparable thing about a Liberal as I had about the Conservative. So I had, OK, here you go. Pasted the link and replied. <\/p>\n<p>And the reader replied right away. The reader was very confused.<br \/>\n&mdash;<br \/>\nThe reader had questions about how I could criticize both a Conservative and a Liberal. The reader asked about agendas \u2014 who had insisted I write one piece, and why had they then permitted me to write the other?<\/p>\n<p>I wrote both on my own initiative, I explained. +<br \/>\n&mdash;<br \/>\nAnd I made criticisms of both gentlemen, the Conservative and the Liberal, because they&#8217;d both done things that pissed me off.<\/p>\n<p>The reader didn&#8217;t believe this was possible. There had to be another explanation, or an ulterior motive. +<br \/>\n&mdash;<br \/>\nI eventually disengaged. But I&#8217;ve been thinking about that all day. There&#8217;s a grown-ass person in Canada, totally literate and presents very normally, who really struggled to understand that someone could be critical of both the left and right without being compromised. <\/p>\n<p>END<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Matt-Gurney-tweet-20200604.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Matt-Gurney-tweet-20200604-480x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Matt-Gurney-tweet-20200604-480x278.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Matt-Gurney-tweet-20200604-150x87.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Matt-Gurney-tweet-20200604.png 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gurney had a discussion with one of his readers that left him shaking his head in disbelief: I had an interaction today with a reader that&#39;s indicative of a lot of things that are wrong with our society and why we can&#39;t have nice things. A short (promise) thread. The reader had read something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[1364,139],"class_list":["post-57687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-cognitivedissonance","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-f0r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57687","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=57687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57689,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57687\/revisions\/57689"}],"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=57687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}