• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not quite. Cognitive dissonance is not the act of holding disparate beliefs. It is the mental discomfort that people are SUPPOSED to feel holding two disparate beliefs. Nothing more.

    Cognitive dissonance is the exact thing missing from the kinds of people you describe.

    I don’t care what your opinion of the cars are (their build quality and after market support make them trash regardless), just trying to clear up the actual meaning of “cognitive dissonance”.