Cognitive Dissonance.

Anecdotes from the world of cognitive dissonance.

Recently I happened to meet a young lady, European but not British/Irish, very articulate in English. I'm keeping her origins somewhat vague of course. It's my spergy dilemma; what was she really saying to me?

She was explaining to me how she had just moved here, to [redacted], in the last few weeks. 

She told me how nice it was here, how she could walk home at night alone in safety. Not like where she had been until recently - which was in Birmingham. She then when on to explain how much she had loved Birmingham "with all it's diversity".

Okay . . . 

I think it's safe to say that we are aware of the high degree of correlation between the safety, or lack thereof it, nice young white girls and the levels of enriching diversity. Of course, officially, we're not supposed to notice that at all.

But was she noticing?

Was she dog whistling that the lack of safety corelated with the diversity and she was virtue-signaling her love of it and fealty to Regime dogma to cover herself lest I get the wrong idea? Or was she actually brainwashed enough not to join the two issues together and thus happy to illustrate her lack of recognition of the dissonance?

Then, around the same time, I met another lady speaking to her for the first time in years. [As above, got to be careful here, don't want to get in trouble] She's half US/Brit by parentage. Raised UK but spent much of her life in the US. Earlier she had mentioned her liking for people different to herself - implying it to be a manifest human virtue. Then later telling me her US city of choice to live in would be Chicago. But she was emphatic - she likes the North Side. Then went on to state, explicitly, not the South Side. The heavily 93% black-enriched, South Side. The at-least-two-murders-a-day South Side. You know, that South Side.

With her I feel we're in deeper. Because she's got a black hubby and mixed race offspring. She's not just mouthing Regime dogma, she's living it. Yet we can detect the same dissonance lurking just below the surface. Is she somehow noticing yet not noticing in an Orwellian style? Do both these women simply step over it or somehow rationalise it away? Easy enough to do as the entire formal public, but very shallow, culture reinforces this around the clock - as long as they don't think too much or too deeply.