CurrentBias :agender_rat: on Nostr: When people have cognitive dissonance, people reminding them of a truth they are ...

When people have cognitive dissonance, people reminding them of a truth they are devoting conscious effort toward reframing are seen as really appealing messengers to shoot at. It seems that even though the stages of grief are tremendously nonlinear, anger follows denial for a reason

Before the message can be bargained with, it must first be the target of unprocessed anger at a fact so large that it represents a fundamental loss of control over life-as-imagined -- fight/flight/freeze