I'm just one soul in a crowded zone
Surrounded by people but I feel alone
Looking at screens avoiding the truth
Lost in beliefs conflicting like proof.
This world's in pieces mind in chains
Truth feels twisted pleasure and pain
Everyone's living these double-sided dreams
Preaching "go green" driving big machines.
They know it's wrong but the comfort's real
Dissonant thoughts they just can't feel
Milton said it best it's all in the head
Make heaven from hell or chaos instead.
Cognitive dissonance got us all in a trance
Step to the beat but we can't find the dance
Contradict ourselves just to prove we're right
Living in shadows avoiding the light.
They're holding tight to those broken views
Denying facts 'cause the truth feels bruised
Got climate wars and divided stands
Can't clean the world with blood on our hands.
Galbraith said it people twist and they turn
Defending beliefs while the planet burns
Resisting change stuck in this state
Like Burke said evil's fed by the wait.
Tolerate lies let 'em multiply
Watch ideologies fly and collide
Harm spreads easy when beliefs don't shift
The paradox grows the rift just drifts.
Cognitive dissonance got us all in a trance
Step to the beat but we can't find the dance
Contradict ourselves just to prove we're right
Living in shadows avoiding the light.
But sometimes pain brings growth to the mind
Self-reflection trying to break that bind
When we challenge views then the world can bend
The path to change's where the fractures mend.
Society's complex no easy views
Dissonance cuts but it leaves clues
What's real or fake? It's hard to know
Every step's tangled in a fractured flow.
Some seek answers face the discord
Others just bury it keep the norm
Einstein said growth is the change we crave
But Wilde knew truth ain't simple or brave.
In a world of doubles right and wrong collide
Dissonant voices leave nowhere to hide
Yet Franklin knew each era's plight
The cost of change is worth the fight.
Cognitive dissonance left us all in the dark
Finding a spark where beliefs depart
Living in chaos truth's a game of chance
But maybe we'll learn if we take that stance.