Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Cognitive Dissonance
cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance. Pronunciation: \'käg-ne-tiv\\'di-se-nen(t)s\ The experience of finding oneself in an Israeli hummus restaurant and karaoke bar, on the edge of a volcanic lake, in Guatemala, on a monday night, with a group of Israeli ex-soldiers singing "wonderwall", "dancing queen" and various hebrew pop songs, while eating hummus and falafels.
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That's not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when you're hanging out in a bar with some Israeli's eating hummus, and you're entire life you've thought Israel is a fucken awful country populated with awful people, and the garbanzo bean is fucken poisonous, and you're having a great time, but because your entire world view revolves around the fact that Israel is awful and the garbanzo bean kills you, you can't have a good time cause it's easier to accept that you're having a bad time, rather than the idea that there might be Israelis who aren't awful, and the possibility that the chickpea could be tasty. What you describe is more adequately described as fun.
ReplyDeleteyeah i'm pretty pissed. i'm at work and you're eating hummus. i think i should just quit and move to mexico and live off my savings...
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