This is your brain bending reality to make you feel better. It’s called cognitive dissonance – when our brain is confronted with conflicting ideas such as ‘Joss Whedon is a feminist hero’ and ‘Joss Whedon is a cheating husband’. To avoid cognitive dissonance, our brain tries to bend our interpretation of reality so the two conflicting ideas are not in conflict any more. Photo: VISUAL HUNT/Robert Couse-Baker
So, Monday September 4 is a holiday.
But for me, this celebration of a successfully hosted SEA Games with our greatest ever medal haul has been marred by a report in the Thai press that says “the officiating at KL2017 is the worst... ever seen”. This was the opinion of Thana Chaiprasit who has been Thailand’s chief of delegation at several international events, including the Olympics, Asian Games and SEA Games.
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