You can't always get what you want.
The Rolling Stones were right. You can't always get what you want. It may happen on occasion, but really, if we were 100% honest, it rarely happens. And so we change our attitudes, manipulate them sometimes, even. We will do anything to make ourselves believe our desires are the most important. For example, my wiener dog, Carl, believes finding his hidden kong is worth nudging me incessantly for at 12:46 AM. What he doesn't realize is that by doing so, he has interrupted my sleep, heightening the chances that I will forget to feed him in the morning, as I chase my desire to show up to work on time.
Ah, the price we pay for entertainment.
And yet, what happens to us when our desire for goodness and our desire for anything else conflict? We begin down that slippery slope of justification.
Cognitive dissonance, you're an absolute whore.
The Rolling Stones were right. You can't always get what you want. It may happen on occasion, but really, if we were 100% honest, it rarely happens. And so we change our attitudes, manipulate them sometimes, even. We will do anything to make ourselves believe our desires are the most important. For example, my wiener dog, Carl, believes finding his hidden kong is worth nudging me incessantly for at 12:46 AM. What he doesn't realize is that by doing so, he has interrupted my sleep, heightening the chances that I will forget to feed him in the morning, as I chase my desire to show up to work on time.
Ah, the price we pay for entertainment.
And yet, what happens to us when our desire for goodness and our desire for anything else conflict? We begin down that slippery slope of justification.
Cognitive dissonance, you're an absolute whore.
