... how we get caught up in good stories when we originally experience them--the suspense which makes us have "willing suspension of disbelief"--and are swept along often without noticing the kinds of pick-ups you list--sometimes blatant and ... aren't likely to notice it since their "Gestalts," spurred by the story suspense they're caught up in, will cause them to assume the people are ...

...are not stupid and keeping them ignorant is a very difficult job. My spin on it is that there would have been no Republic without King Cotton, so willing suspension of disbelief turned into outright cognitive dissonance. The really nice part is that slavery's *solution* was just as entropic and violent as it was, if not moreso. "I...

... the single word that means "The willing suspension of disbelief." _Is_ there such a word? Or maybe I've forgotten that I...reader's willingness to suspend his or her disbelief, a phrase used originally by Samuel Taylor Coleridge... means to accomplish this mindset. In order to promote the willing suspension of disbelief, a fictional text needed to have credibility. Anything physically possible in ...

...>, bblac...@mail.com says... They say the second sign of old age is forgetfulness. I cannot remember the single word that means "The willing suspension of disbelief." _Is_ there such a word? Or maybe I've forgotten that I've forgotten it. --fc I don't know it if there is one. But just for ...

...@mailcom>, bblackie@mail.com says... They say the second sign of old age is forgetfulness. I cannot remember the single word that means "The willing suspension of disbelief." _Is_ there such a word? Or maybe I've forgotten that I've forgotten it. --fc I do not believe there is such a word. If ...

... truth. The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has produced. It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense. ...

... are from truth. The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has produced. It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense. ...

... they are from truth. The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has produced. It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense. ...

... far away they are from truth. The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has produced. It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense. What ...

...how far away they are from truth. The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has produced. It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense. Hatter...