Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Yes, just now with the conservative extremist rhetoric and violent acts, the psychotic fear of government,
et al, there are serious problems in America, then again there have been times of worse violence before.

Yep, about everyone would agree totally with ..

that so many people have to struggle for survival in a world as rich in resources as ours.

as looking at history hasn't it always been? Yep, the belief .. hang on, the vast majority of people are basically good aren't they? .. so why has the world always been so unfair? .. i put it down, for many of us, to, lol, something like, 50+ years of cognitive dissonance.

The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop. When the fox fails to reach the grapes, he decides he doesn't want
them anyway, an example of adaptive preference formation designed to reduce cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing them. It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.

Dissonance occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency
in his beliefs, when one idea implies the opposite of another.

LOL, YUP, it is bloody tiring, isn't it. Personally, anyway, .. grunt, dunno,
rationalize .. it does help to understand it will probably always be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance