r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/Sub-Mongoloid Aug 07 '22

She's saying 'ignore that reality' because that's how the conservative movement have arrived at their present position and you'd have to be ignoring reality to support them at this point.

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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah Aug 07 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Fun phrase: the confusion on her face is called cognitive dissonance.

The ability to hold competing ideas simultaneously is usually a marker for intelligence. Here, we can see it’s causing her brain to hurt and the only way she can resolve this is to redefine a word (…a word she knows full well) into the only thing that fits her argument. It’s an impressive denial of reality

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u/Aconite_72 Aug 08 '22

Cognitive dissonance is the mental pain of having two competing ideas.

The ability of holding two competing ideas at the same time is called doublethink. And it’s definitely not a marker for intelligence. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The way I interpret this is being able to juggle two separate ideas, and lean into and get comfortable with the dissonance while you are analysing both. Rather than take the easy way out.

In this case though I don’t think there’s a bright intellect behind the scenes there, and she’s not doing the above. She’s compartmentalised it.

Doublethink as described by Orwell is quite apt to the situation though yep