1-“Professor Anne O’Dwyer taught me about cognitive dissonance – the psychological discomfort which occurs when you’re confronted with a set of facts suggesting that what you’re doing or believing is irrational or stupid. You pay $10 to go to a movie, and the movie is pretty bad. But rather than admit that you wasted $10, there’s a tendency to say it isn’t wasn’t really so bad: the acting was impressive, the special effects looked really realistic – whatever you need to tell yourself to convince yourself that you got your money’s worth. You want to feel like you’re not a sucker. We paper over the cognitive dissonance in much of what we do – the fact that this clearly isn’t the best way to be ordering a society, to be living a life – because we’ve got an awful lot invested in the route we’ve been pursuing. To admit that it’s flawed would be too much dissonance to handle.” Pick an issue which you believe the media has “papered over”. Describe how you figured out you were not getting the whole truth. What was the more complex truth & why was it hidden (or more important who benefits from the partial truth & who loses? )What is the cost to you and what can you do about it?
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2-In what way have you been encouraged to “sit back, relax, and enjoy the show” and how can you “grab the steering wheel before we go over the edge”?
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