This looks like good place to drop this. Perhaps this can help partially explain the vehement opposition to each other. Stuff that happens 'Out There' will fade into the next story and the world will live on. We live together in here. Mike gave us a home. No need to take a chainsaw and cut it in half.
Two Movies on One Screen: Conflicting Narratives of the Renee Good Shooting in Minnesota.
"Anyone following recent events in Minneapolis has likely noticed something strange. People watching the same videos, reading the same headlines, and reacting to the same street-level events often seem to be describing entirely different realities. Conversations quickly break down, not because people disagree about what should be done, but because they cannot even agree on what is happening. It’s as if people are watching two completely different movies on one screen.
The “two-movies-one-screen” concept was first coined by Scott Adams(RIP), the creator of Dilbert turned political commentator, to describe radically different interpretations of the same political events. People with access to the same set of facts come away with completely different understandings of what is happening. In some cases, each side seems genuinely unaware that the other interpretation even exists.
This is not merely disagreement, and it goes beyond ordinary bias. It is also not quite what psychologists usually mean by cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance, first described by Leon Festinger in the 1950s, occurs when people experience psychological discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs or encountering information that contradicts their existing views, and then attempt to reduce that discomfort through rationalization or reinterpretation of the facts. In cases like the Renee Good shooting in Minnesota, however, something else seems to be happening. So, what is going on?
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Two Movies on One Screen: Conflicting Narratives of the Renee Good Shooting in Minnesota