Ben Jones, don't you know that "American Values" have changed to sex and violence? That's all anyone cares about anymore. Just look at politics.

Criminals are actually better at finding non-violent ways to commit crime than law enforcement is at finding non-violent ways to stop it. For every trucker that tries to run through a road-bloack, there are ten who calmly out-smart the authorities.

"Despair!"

Stop me before I start making sense L/Black

The hat sends out a very strong message;

I'm a freak

By "democratic" I don't mean "democrats".

Democracy passes into despotism.
- Plato

All democratic leaders are slime. Because honest people cannot be elected.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
- Adolf Hitler

It seems pretty obvious

Sounds lik a good scam; By the way bro, I'm stranded on this beach, I have no money to get home.

You've heard of animal imprinting, right?

Well maybe this chick thinks rover is her/his parent.

My pleasure.

Cool! Because of it's distributed pressure it probably reduces the risk of causing injury as well.

Hmm, Kind of fibonacci. If it was perfectly sequenced I wonder what it would look like.

Seriously, I thought this was bigger. I just noticed the coin next to it. It is probably one of those tuning screws from a musical instrument.

All that sort of thing definitely revolves around egotism though. There would be no dissonance or need for reduction strategies in this event if "birthers" hadn't attached themselves so strongly to the viewpoint within the social domain. If I secretely believed Obama was a fake, I could change my mind now and no one would be any wiser. But if I had made it a public image, I would find it harder to let go of my conviction, and feel the need to defend my-self.

I'm pretty sure this is just called "Denial".

Cognitive Dissonance is a state of holding two conflicting view-points, such that a tension exists between the two.

For example; I would like chocolate cake, but I would like vanilla cake just as much, I can't decide!

And I think this differs from "Cognitive Dissonance Reduction" strategies.

Suppose I believe that Obama was not born in the USA. Then this document comes out, now my mind may be in a state of dissonance; my belief in Obama's origins is at variance with the evidence of his birth certificate. To reduce or resolve this dissonance I rationalize (using reason to justify a presupposition // making excuses) that it must be fake.