Cognitive Dissonance

[lehighguy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/op...mp;oref=slogin

What strikes me is how he can catalogue how ineffective and detrimental his policies were to the children in paragraph one, they go on to continue advocating them in paragraph two. How does the author manage this cognitive dissonance.

Paragraph 1:
"On a warm winter afternoon in Guangzhou, I accompanied Chinese police officers on a factory raid in a decrepit tenement. Inside, we found two dozen children, ages 8 to 13, gluing and sewing together fake luxury-brand handbags. The police confiscated everything, arrested the owner and sent the children out. Some punched their timecards, hoping to still get paid. (The average Chinese factory worker earns about $120 a month; the counterfeit factory worker earns half that or less.) As we made our way back to the police vans, the children threw bottles and cans at us. They were now jobless and, because the factory owner housed them, homeless. It was “Oliver Twist” in the 21st century. "

Paragraph 2:
What can we do to stop this? Much like the war on drugs, the effort to protect luxury brands must go after the source: the counterfeit manufacturers. The company that took me on the Chinese raid is one of the only luxury-goods makers that works directly with Chinese authorities to shut down factories, and it has one of the lowest rates of counterfeiting.

Where exactely does he think these kids are going home too? Assuming they even have a home, its probably worse in rural china then where they were.

[Nielsio]

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Much like the war on drugs, these kind of policies are batshit insane and the Chinese government, Western governments AND the author of this article hates the poor and the middle class.

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[morphball]

This is a fluff article that has been endorsed by Luis Vuitton or Coach or Prada. LOL, buy a knock-off and you fund Hezbollah.

IMO, the cognitive dissonance is the result of one of two things:

1. One the author hated doing this job and did a bad one; or

2. The author believed it himself because he is stupid and it shows in his writing.

This was an entertaining read. Bin Laden is the new boogeyman. Anytime you do something naughty, you help his cause.

[Nielsio]

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This was an entertaining read. Bin Laden is the new boogeyman. Anytime you do something naughty, you help his cause.

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Right. It's the new religion. Instead of satan, it's now 'the terrorists' that you are helping.

[Phil153]

How does this cause cognitive dissonance? They're too different issues.

Just because criminals suffer from laws doesn't invalidate the enforcement of those laws.

[lehighguy]

He's saying that low wage factories in China are bad for "exploited" workers and need to be stoped, yet at the same time saying that they are actually good for the workers and they really want these jobs.

[cpk]

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Much like the war on drugs, these kind of policies are batshit insane and the Chinese government, Western governments AND the author of this article hates the poor and the middle class.

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So you support fraud?

[PLOlover]

you think that's bad, it was on crooksandliars.com, a video of msnbc report where the reporter said that it's good that chinese goods have lead in the toys and poison in the food, because if china cleaned up their act prices would go up and americans would have to pay more. so be thankful for that poison in your food. wasn't a joke either. it was on hardball I think.

[pvn]

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Much like the war on drugs, these kind of policies are batshit insane and the Chinese government, Western governments AND the author of this article hates the poor and the middle class.

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So you support fraud?

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How many people buying a "Louis Vitton" purse for $20 think they are getting the Genuine Article?

[Nielsio]

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Much like the war on drugs, these kind of policies are batshit insane and the Chinese government, Western governments AND the author of this article hates the poor and the middle class.

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So you support fraud?

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Ofcourse.