Why People Sacrifice the TRUTH For Social Belonging

Cognitive Dissonance keeps the mind trapped in states of confusion, denial and defense. This makes people an easy target for manipulation. When people are already confused and then bombarded with messages of fear and danger, the brain tends to shut down into dissociation. People can end up consenting to, or even doing, horrific things without realizing how they got there.

The Cognitive Dissonance dissolves in a spontaneous moment.

It’s usually when something so drastic happens, that the truth pierces the person’s denial and they can no longer unsee what they just saw.

That’s the part we can’t control.

It’s the sudden Divine intervention that brings a thunderous shock to pierce the person’s denial.

So how can a person help themselves to break through the dissonance?

By relentlessly facing the truth.

The problem is this goes against our entire biological programming.

As mammals, we are neurologically wired to seek social belonging before truth. We will sacrifice the truth in order to avoid social rejection.

Social rejection feels like a death threat to the mammalian brain.

We automatically seek safety through connection because our brain tells us that we are safe when we are social and connected.

A person in an abusive relationship has difficulty leaving because there’s a sense of belonging. The abusive person usually tells the victim that no one else will ever love or want them. It becomes terrifying to consider leaving.

When a person wakes up to the abuse in a family, workplace or other social group, the same abuse dynamics apply yet it becomes even more difficult to leave due to the group mobbing effect.

When everyone around you is telling you that you’re crazy, wrong, paranoid, lying, misinformed, making things up… it gets very confusing. You’re more likely to doubt your own perspectives before those of the group.

You might start to believe that you’re the one with the problem since you’re the only one in the group who is talking about the problem.

It’s terrifying when there are aggressive members of the group who begin targeting an individual for speaking up about the abuse. The leaders of the abusive group will make an example out of that person in order to show others not to even think about dissenting or challenging the distorted reality to which the group is fully subscribed.

The devastating experience of feeling utterly alone in reality while everyone else is telling you that you’re crazy can drive a person to insanity or even to take their own life.

The same is true in a tyrannical society.

When you wake up to the abuse happening all around you and you start to speak up about it, you will be shamed, blamed, smeared and silenced.

It’s not easy to face the ugly truth. It’s even more difficult when everyone around you is telling you that you’re wrong.

Once the shift of consciousness happens where an individual wants to know the truth and live in the truth, that’s when things start to change. Until then, there’s nothing we can do to convince people of reality when they don’t want to see it.

We can help ourselves to dissolve the Cognitive Dissonance by relentlessly facing the truth. This means catching ourselves any time the mind wants to indulge in fantasy, illusions, lies and toxic hope… then re-directing the mind to focus on the truth and reality.

The shift doesn’t come from outside.

There has to be an internal drive that causes a person to want the truth. That means they’re going to have to want to look into the abyss of darkness in order to make the unconscious conscious. And that usually doesn’t happen until a drastic, spontaneous event has pierced the person’s denial and forced them to see a different perspective.

Drastic events will keep happening around the world with increasing intensity as the abuse and tyranny escalate. Eventually more people are going to be forced to face reality. That will likely lead to a massive fallout of mental health crises in society.

Stiftung Corona Ausschuss (Berlin Corona Investigative Committee) dialog with Reiner Fuellmich, Viviane Fischer and Meredith Miller.