Re: Cognitive dissonance
On Jan 18, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Although I tried to strike a balance and acknowledge the guy’s personal “contributions” to his predicament, but also look at the broader systemic ramifications of it, I was accused of turning everything into politics and not seeing a personal aspect of it. The conversation ended on a less than friendly note.
Can’t you just read this as two complementary perspectives? The
systemic stuff you’re talking about has to operate on and through
actual people. So the “personal” contributions are just specific
instances of systemic forces. And we’re so programmed with the norms
of our society that the systemic aspect is perpetuated by the sum of
millions of individual experiences.
Doug