You've been on a roll with these nice graphics all evening. Very pleasing to the eye and good information content.
Not exactly.
Cognitive dissonance is when you receive or perceive new information that does not fit into your mental model of things. It jars your paradigm.
One can respond to the dissonance by rejecting the information (truth) and just go back to what they were doing, or by altering your mental model of reality to be more accurate. The person who rejects truth is not seeing things as they truly are, because of prejudice. Prejudice meaning pre-judging, staying attached to the past instead of reacting correctly to new and different stimuli.
Imagine you are piloting a ship and the chart says you can make a safe passage between two islands, so you steer through that theoretical passage. But the depth sounder provides conflicting information: the water here is too shallow and the ship will run around if you attempt the passage. That's cognitive dissonance. A good pilot will weigh the new information and make an informed decision. A sheep stuck on mental autopilot will press through the newly-shallow channel and run around.
Which do you want to be?
Sounds like you are partly clued on some stuff. Wanna join us? It's a wild ride and very time consuming but if you start, you can't leave… and by the way we are helping save the world from stuff that is worse than you can imagine.
Yup,
>Viktor Schauberger
figured out a lot of peculiar stuff about water. What water "likes". To be stored in the dark. To move in channels that swirl or spiral. Other stuff. Mind-blowing really. Someday you'll get time to check it out. The chan has been more than a full time job lately.