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This gets worse with age as [[neuroplasticity]] diminishes and changing our minds becomes increasingly difficult. Whilst cognitive dissonance in society is fine in regard to innocuous issues such as what is the best football team to support, when it comes to more pertinent issues such as what action to take in regards to the ecological crisis dissonance on these ideas can be deadly. As Max Planck said "''A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it''” however the question arises given the potential [[Ecological Crisis Timeline|timeline of the ecological crisis]] do we have the time needed to overcome societies dissonance? | This gets worse with age as [[neuroplasticity]] diminishes and changing our minds becomes increasingly difficult. Whilst cognitive dissonance in society is fine in regard to innocuous issues such as what is the best football team to support, when it comes to more pertinent issues such as what action to take in regards to the ecological crisis dissonance on these ideas can be deadly. As Max Planck said "''A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it''” however the question arises given the potential [[Ecological Crisis Timeline|timeline of the ecological crisis]] do we have the time needed to overcome societies dissonance? | ||
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''“if you are not a liberal at 20 you have no heart and if you are not a conservative at 30 you have no brain''” has been long thought of as an aphorism in folk wisdom. The phrase suggests that people become more politically conservative as they grow older. However, several more recent empirical studies suggest political attitudes are stable across time<ref>'''Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age?''' The Journal of Politics. Peterson, J. C., Smith, K. B., & Hibbing, J. R. (2019). doi:10.1086/706889 </ref>. | |||
A possible reason for this is that when people adopt political views in their younger years this forms part of their ego and cognitive dissonance works as a metaphorical shield protecting them from change. As they become less neuroplastic with age, this concretes their views beyond change. It is thought that whichever end of the political spectrum people identify as this can be altered in either direction by the use of [[psychedelics]]. | |||
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