Cognitive Dissonance & Cultural Breakdown

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As humans, we tend to have overconfidence in what we actually believe and an overrated notion of the rationality of those beliefs. If pressed to describe how we arrive at our beliefs, we might enthusiastically relate a process of logic and level-headed reasoning.

But the truth is, the vast majority of our beliefs do not emerge from the noble halls of logic. Here’s an example: overwhelmingly…