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Volume 1, Issue 1

Systemic Cognitive Dissonance: When Institutions Resolve Contradictions by Redefining Reality

Axel Andersen6 pages116 KB

Abstract

There is a special kind of contradiction that only large systems can pull off with a straight face. The institutional kind where the organisation can simultaneously say 'We've learned from past harms' and 'We're rolling out a new model that recreates the same risk profile' while feeling morally refreshed. This is Systemic Cognitive Dissonance: a structural pattern where contradictions are not corrected—they are managed, rebranded, and exported into someone else's life.

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