I would also like to know why it's so difficult, can someone explain it please?
Well, I've failed my psychology exam so I'm no expert, but I assume it's the same mechanism which allowed for monarchies and the like; people viewed the king as someone inherently superior to themselves because of his status as The King. Because they are better than us, we believe them to be perfect (this because I believe most people are at all times have both a superiority and inferiority complex; they are better than I am, but I am awesome so they must be perfect.). This same mechanism I think applies to all who we admire; we think that they are better than us and thus they must be infallible.
We don't like it when something we thought infallible defies are illusions. See; French revolution, English Civil War etc...
I think. Maybe.
It's called cognitive dissonance and it's very uncomfortable.
Psyc knowledge coming in unannounced.
If Nya is saying cog diss is why it's difficult for us to see the two sides of Shou, she is correct. It's why I had issues at first about the whole deal. But ya know, I am both an avid supporter of gay marriage and a devoted Catholic and I (after a bit of thinking, mind you) was able to reconcile the two rather nicely. So, there are plenty of ways to have seemingly repulsively contrasted aspects to your personality while at the same time not having cognitive dissonance about it.
The term for putting people who have an upper-edge in experience/credibility in a subject varies depending on the situation, but in general that whole concept in scarily accurate. You were partially correct about all people having both an inferiority and superiority complex (boiling what those terms are standing for in this situation down to those two respective terms is quasi-incorrect and unfair, but the idea is the same and would just be arguing semantics at that point). And when people are shown that their leaders and pedestaled people are actually not all that hot, they revolt in some way. It involves more than just cog diss at that point (depending on your psychological belief field, your prognosis changes), but the ideas are all still there.
