RELS 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Dissonance, Ingroups And Outgroups, Sibling Rivalry
4 Oct 2016
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Tribal, national, religious identity divides us into groups. Altruistic evil evil committed in a sacred cause, in the name of high ideals. The 21st century has failed to address the most fundamental of human needs, the search for identity. The rise of secularism a creed that tells us that we lives are pointless masses of evolutionary cells does not speak to us in the way that a creed that tells us we are not made in the image of. Both the social animals outside of our in-group apply to survival of the ttest. We are good and bad bc we are human. We are social animals and we live and thrive in groups. Dualism happens when cognitive dissonance become unbearable, when the world as it is, is simply too unlike the world as we believed it ought to be p. 48. It makes you dehumanize and demonize your enemies. It leads you to see yourself as a victim.
