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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on February 25, 2004 and belongs in the music category. The previous post was Grey Tuesday, and the next post is Fagograms.

Cognitive Dissonance

I have found the recipe for instant cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance, that psy­cho­log­i­cal phe­nom­e­non which might roughly be described as the dis­com­fort one feels when a cur­rently held belief clashes with a new piece of information.

You will need:

  1. A copy of Heat magazine.
  2. A copy of Good­bye, Baby­lon, the bespoke sex­tu­ple CD com­pi­la­tion of religous musics.

Now, simply play the com­pi­la­tion - any disc will do - and read the magazine.

It’s just a wild trip, man. I’m going to write a report for Erowid about it, right away.

Posted at 3pm on 25/02/04 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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  1. that just made me laugh out loud like a buffoon

    Posted by Donna at 5pm on 25.02.04

  2. This proves that you have very dif­fer­ent belief sys­tems from me! Wonder what hap­pens when you listen to some Wagner and watch “I’m a celebrity get me out of here”.
    Also, a chant is required for the away end at Mill­wall to cause cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance in Dennis Wise’s brain over the belief that he is an able player.

    Posted by Donny at 5pm on 25.02.04

  3. This proves that you have very dif­fer­ent belief sys­tems from me!

    Nah, it works for every­one. No matter what your beliefs, cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance will be pro­voked by read­ing about Shane Ritchie’s pri­vate life while lis­ten­ing to pro­found church music full of pain and longing.

    Talk­ing of Mil­wall, any news on tick­ets? Will give you a bell this evening…

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 5pm on 26.02.04

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