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Cool “Cognitive Dissonance” images

A few nice Cognitive Dissonance images I found:

Here it comes… ?


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cougar sighting


Image by Ian Ruotsala
From the Aug. 14th, 2009 Palo Alto weekly. The Cougars Convention announcement is weird enough; but, it got placed next to the mountain lion sighting article. My brain was temporarily scrambled when, flipping through this newspaper, I glanced at this page.

Image by Laser Burners

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Nice “Cultural Beliefs” photos

Some cool Cultural Beliefs images:

Chicago: atrium, Jim R. Thompson Center, 100 W Randolf St


Image by jetzenpolis
photo: 10/11/2004

BIG ROUND ROOF HOLE

Standing on the southeast corner of the building, on the corner of W. Randolf St. & N. Clark St., looking up, I took this shot of the Jim R. Thompson Ctr. (Jim Thompson was an llinois state governor from 1977-1991, a member of the Republican Party, although Chicago is famous for being a political stronghold of the Democratic Party "machine.")

Helmut Jahn, a German architect, designed the building. It was opened in 1985 as the State of Illinois Center, later renamed in 1993 for Gov. Jim Thompson.

Wikipedia: Jim R. Thompson Center
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Thompson_Center

CHICAGO VS. "DOWNSTATE" ILLINOIS

Illinois culture is divided between "city" (Chicago) and everything else ("downstate"). This division is widely recognized throughout Illinois, especially in state government politics. If you can sum up the difference between the two parts of the state in terms of personalities, you could pick Richard M. Daley (mayor of Chicago: 1955-1976) as the iconic political figure of the city and Abraham Lincoln as the iconic political figure of downstate Illiniois.

The suburbs of Chicago are a neutral cultural ground between the two geographic divisions of Chicago and downstate Illinois. The suburbs mix together different characteristics of the city and downstate.

Traditionally, Chicago is an electoral bastion of the Democratic Party "machine," not only in statewide elections but also national elections. Chicago machine politics under Mayor Richard J. Daley are infamous for having "thrown" the election to a fellow Irish Catholic canidate in the 1960 U.S. Presidential elections: John F. Kennedy. The ballot returns from Chicago wards were withheld from the vote count until after ballots from downstate were counted. The suspicion is that Chicago’s Democratic Party machine stole the election by adding extra votes for Kennedy.

Of course, there are many other cultural divisions within Chicago, of course. The city is divided by race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and every other possible division you can think of in American society. But the division between "city" and "downstate" is especially important because of how conscious people can be of it and the reflection of this cultural division in the political thinking of the state.

If Chicago is Democratic, then downstate is Republican. Again, not every Chicagoan is a Democrat. Some are Republican. Some are socialist, too, or Communist or anarchist or libertarian or, for that matter, are neo-Nazi. In other words, big cities – simply because of their large populations – contain people with many different points of view on politics, religion, or anything you can think of.

Nor is this cultural division between Chicago and downstate Illinois limited to just the poltical differences between Democrats in Chicago and Republicans downstate. This cultural division also shows other fundamental differences in temprament.

Chicago, similar to many East Coast cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, takes the view that emotions should be shown without restraint. "Deep," "heavy" emotions are to be given high regard. It’s taken for granted that the depth with which emotions are felt gives them the "weight" of seriousness.

On the old "Route 66" television series from the first half of the 1960s, the character of Buzz Murdock described everything in Chicago as being "heavy."

Nonetheless, Chicago is emotionally unrestrained only in comparison to its Midwest cultural surroundings. Chicago is notably more emotionally restrained than New York City, for example.

This attitude in East Coast cities also has a class affiliation that is much more obvious than it is in Chicago, though. It is the residents of the outer boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island) who hold the cultural belief that their lack of emotional restraint shows "strength of character" and "heart&quot. Manhattan is different. The outer boroughs angrily berate everybody else. They punish others with their moral judgments that hold nothing back. The more emotional pain inflicted, the better. This is mistaken as "strength of character."

Again, Manhattan is a different story. If you talk about "Manhattan" and "New York City," you are probably talking about two different groups of people. Manhattan is the great urban magnet for art, theatre, publishing, corporate headquarters, stock brokerages, banks, etc. Manhattan is stylish, sophisticated, urbane, well educated. It’s not as raw or harsh in voice or manner as the outer boroughs.

(At least, it’s not outwardly raw and harsh. There is plenty of competition in Manhattan’s "rat race&quot. Having a college degree from a "good" school and good manners doesn’t always prevent people from becoming rats or jerks, of course.)

Without quite recognizing it perhaps, the Loop in Chicago seems to have more and more the feel of being a Manhattan. The Loop as the city’s Central Business District (CBD) has a much different feel than what is seen as the classic Chicago character: broad shouldered, rough mannered, unionized working class.

It’s as if downtown, having becoming to the city’s large tall buildings downtown has lost interest in them, taking them for granted as part of its ordinary, everyday background. "Bigness" for its own sake has lost its appeal. Downtown cares more about being "intelligent" and "creative" than in being big enough to throw your weight around and impress (intimidate) others.

"Manhattan" culture is, more or less, traditional East Coast WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) culture in one of its most sophisticated, tolerant, urbane forms. The essential characteristics of East Coast WASP culture are "open mindedness," "tolerance," and "rationality," Emotions are curbed in WASP culture for the sake of politeness.

(Of course, WASP culture as the leading culture of the East Coast is probably the dominant culture of the United States and is associated with many of the historical justices of American society. Unfortunately, it is rarely given credit for its ability to criticize and reform itself into becoming ever better versions of its former selves.)

Downstate is culturally more "masculine" than the city. In fact, downstate cultural attitudes bear a strong resemblance to the "rugged individualism" of the Rocky Mountain states of the American West (and their ideological propensity toward a laissez faire capitalist libertarianism).

2010/365/289 Remembering Granny


Image by cogdogblog
It’s one day after what would have been my grandmother’s 108th birthday. This was part of the sign at an antique store in Payson called "Granny’s Attic"

I never called this as a kid, it was more of a fun name I used after I moved away to Arizona. She loved to laugh. I sure miss her, and I have not made any progress on doing the next iteration of her digital story.

Happy belated birthday, Granny. I really hold onto the cultural belief that we truly die when other people stop telling their stories.

what is “brain washing” to you?

by Zachary Robert Repko

Question by went right: what is “brain washing” to you?
define it in your own words
there are a variety of answers, many with the same basic elements I am going to extend the expiration and such to say
Thank you all for the answers so far they are all “neat” and some over lap, but they each hold original ideas, if we all sat in a room together and looked at all these answers, we could probably “put together” one powerhouse definition….

Is brain washing always bad?

Best answer:

Answer by Sirius Black
Brain Washing is the action of erradicating any free thought or possibility of free thought and replacing it with your own (or that of whoever you are working for).

What do you think? Answer below!

Q & A: What is your definition of cult “religion “…?

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issue lest they be Forgotten : What is your definition of> religious cult “”…? Best Answer:
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