Reply #2: Cognitive dissonance. [View All]

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Stuff at this level usually produces cognitive dissonance
in the reader.

When your sense of security is deeply tied to believe
that the powers that be are beneficial to and protective
of the people they govern.

When presented with this contradiction, I think most
people hold it against the presenter for the their bubble
of comfort and trust being interrupted.

I thought it was interesting. I remember when the
radiation experimentation on unwilling and uniformed
people was exposed and declassified in the mid-nineties,
I found it shocking. Universities studies feeding
radioactive cereal to mentally handicap children in the
50's and 60's. I could only think what did the people
who did that tell them self to justify it.