Between this, the impossible numbers in the original laboratory study of cognitive dissonance, and a recent failure to replicate a basic dissonance effect, things aren’t looking great for [cognitive dissonance].¹ But that only makes me believe in it harder!
Concept by Terry Godier @tg that I didn’t know I needed. HTT @manton
Love for…
Part of a non-Tolkien thread on micro.blog; this post reminded me of the TeaWithTolkien community.
@calebgreene @teawithtolkien.bsky.social
| ❝ | That Western civilisation as we know it owes a very great deal to those, Augustine not least, who generated a vision of work, prayer and belief that overcame the decay and collapse of the Roman Empire. |
Andrew Sullivan today.
Paul Monk, writing about hope and peril for Venezuela in The Australian quotes Ellsberg:
There are situations, Ellsberg observed, …“in which the US government, starting ignorant, did not, would not learn. There was a whole set of what amounted to institutional ‘anti-learning’ mechanisms working to preserve and guarantee unadaptive and unsuccessful behaviour: the fast turnover in personnel; the lack of institutional memory at any level; the failure to study history; to analyse or even record operational experience or mistakes; the effective pressures for optimistically false reporting at every level, for describing ‘progress’ rather than problems or failures, thus concealing the need for change in approach or learning.”
| ❝ | The problem with all of us being so much more a hive mind than we realize is that knowledge problems that ripple across our a information ecosystems can become not just threats to individuals with weak character or bad habits, but the equivalent of colony collapse.† |
~Erin Kissane [Landslide: a ghost story](https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/)