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"Thought-Terminating Cliches" (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Short circuit - bypass or impede

Cognitive dissonance - conflict from holding two conflicting beliefs simultaneously

So it's a way to either prevent or stop mental frustration due to conflict between two beliefs.

For example, X needs to be fixed, but fixing it will take too much effort. "It is what it is," so we'll just accept it being broken as a given and work around it. If you didn't short-circuit the line of thinking, you'd spend a ton of time on something that can't reasonably be fixed.