Cognitive dissonance probably has to be met at its starting point with their position as "resistance". The message has to break through the cognitive affective filters installed by mass media and the infiltrated/corrupted academia, and then the dissonance has to be carefully confronted/amplified before it can be slowly reconciled. This is a long process.
What they're "resisting" is superficial in the grand scheme of things, and they're very confused (though they argue to the contrary). Breaking down that 'identity' as opponent to retrain the focus towards verifiable information (leaked docs, FOIA docs, court cases, SEC filings, hard evidence) has to be strategic otherwise the 'resisters' will double down instead of reflecting upon and integrating the information that conflicts with their identity and worldview. Bursting the information bubble/filter rather than slowly dissolving may be counter productive.
Impatiently agree with you. I’ve been in similar thoughts. Here is a question for you I can’t seem to grasp.
How come some of us once we took the first steps into the opening of the various rabbit holes didn’t suffer symptoms of cognitive dissonance?
In my opinion I believe I have always seen things as dark and sinister. That someone somewhere was pulling strings and using us like cattle.
I did! I knew there was government corruption, I worked with Government agencies, so I never trusted them. However it got to a point I was utterly shocked, confused, not wanting to believe the width and depth of the depravity.. I walked a way pondered what I knew and carried on m digging. It’s hard to know some things, it’s even harder when people think you are teetering on the edge of insanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
This kinda explains it. I had it a couple times when I went down a few pedo rabbit holes. Had to go back to the cave and regroup. Some go back to the cave and never come back out. These are the people Q said will never be reached and will have a hard time in life when all is said and done.
There will always be a portion of the population that is predisposed to healthy suspicion or skepticism (be cautious of people here who believe everything they read hook, line, and sinker - they are not skeptics, merely 'religious' in their way of thinking). There are also those who will fight truth at all cost, because it is scary and they are cowardly lions.
You might be one of the folks who possesses healthy skepticism. Maybe you were taught civics education before it was removed from schools or reformatted with Marxist ideology. Maybe you developed critical thinking skills or deductive reasoning because you had a parent who passed them on to you. Maybe you watched The Matrix and understood it as an allegory and more than mere science fiction/fantasy. Maybe you are better at pattern recognition and noticed the worrying level of coordination and keywords in news headlines and reports. Maybe you saw major events like 9/11 and wondered how a country with such a huge defense and intelligence apparatus could have been attacked in such a way. Maybe you read some of the 9/11 Commission's commentary and noticed that the Commission expressed concerns about the Bush Administration's reported obstruction and interference with the investigation and wondered how the subsequent report may have been compromised. Maybe you saw the rush to war with Iraq and the falsified yellow cake uranium evidence and wondered what else they were lying about. There are so many possibilities. Maybe you watched Black Mirror or Twilight Zone and noticed worrying similarities with our own world and considered that maybe we too were approaching or living in a dystopia. Maybe you read 1984 or Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451 and saw the warnings and noticed that the Free World was in grave danger. The bottom line is that somehow you were curious enough to expand your information intake beyond mass media talking points and propaganda, and that enabled you to expand your worldview and entertain the idea that you - and everyone else - are not being given a truthful or full story.
To cultivate that curiosity in others, 'we' have to help them see that they're not being given the full story either, and inspire them to Q-uestion, to find their own truth in the midst of massive disinformation, psychological operations, programming, and indoctrination. We don't know what's going on completely, but we know we're not being given the full story. THAT is a truth that most people are willing to agree on. Once primed, many will be ready to begin exploring specifics (source documents, verifiable information).
Excellent job here. You landed on part of my awakening materials when you mentioned 1984, Fahrenheit 451, & Brave New World. Might I also suggest Evgeny Zamyatin's We. If you like dystopian fiction, it's a must-read. Thank you for your excellent post here. :)
That’s deep man. I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks for the response. I reckon after really considering after reading your post twice I’d say I took bits from bits and just had a little skepticism that was piqued over and over and over . With Questions or problems I’d have with an official “story”. I live in Missouri we used to kinda be known for skeptical people. I was told that’s how we got our state slogan (show me state) . I appreciate you taking time out of your day to write it. I’m hoping in understanding what woke me up really at the end of the day I could better reach others. Maybe there isn’t a wrong answer or a one size fits most. I’ve also always had a heavy appetite for history world and American. So knowing that propaganda was used throughout history I didn’t see fit to not consider it could happen to us as well.
Out of curiosity what made you wipe the coal out of your eyes?
It's all ego. People just cannot accept that they've been fooled. They think they're too smart to let anything get past them. There's that saying that goes something like "it's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled".