Boston Bombing

[TheOTHERmaninblack]

Joe:

I was more on the lines of thinking of how people rationalize dissonant cognitions so as to maintain a psychological homeostasis. I think it would fit in this particular circumstance but I also think your explanation fits better.

Being disconnected from reality is a pathological condition. I have seen 'disconnect' and 'cognition' used together when discussing Schizophrenia, for example. But never has the word 'cognitive' been capitalized in these situations unless it was at the beginning of a sentence. Note that TOMIB capitalized 'cognitive' as if it were a name.

So, let the games start again!

The last comments of this intellectual argument consisted of TOMIB calling Stan a 'dick'.

OK Stan, your shot!

LR1955

I capitalized cognitive because it was at the beginning of a sentence. Granted, the sentence was more a sentence fragment, but that's just the way I write. I'm of the school that believes punctuation to be more an art than a science.


Cognitive disconnect, as I see it, and apart from cognitive dissonance, is the intellectual separation of two conflicting lines of reasoning, but without either the discomfort, or the realization. As though each belief existed complete and separate from any of the others.

So, a person could, for example, hold that all life is sacred, but be completely behind late term abortion and not feel an instant's doubt that either position is any less valid than the other. A kind of compartmentalization. Indeed, if pressed, such folk grow confused that the two concepts might be considered together or affect one another.

To be honest, I've been using the term for so long that I cannot really remember where I first learned it. I will admit to some surprise that you guys hadn't heard it used, and that Google seems to be unaware of it. Maybe I just hang around too many sociopaths :p

In terms of forum habitation, it (albeit tenuously and on a much lower level) could also account for the way that some people treat each thread as though it were its own unique universe, completely divorced from any other thread/sub-forum/forum, and allowing no bleedover of concepts or citation that doesn't exist within its own internal structure.

And to be perfectly fair, I did not actually call Stan a dick. I asked Stan if he was being a dick. A fine point, I'll admit, but still a point.