RE: Open to explore possibility
February 5, 2021 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2021 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Testament to the lasting power of parental and societal conditioning. We may find ourselves, as adults, no longer believing the things that our parents or our society tells us - but that in and of itself doesn't erase the fear or shame or worry or uncertainty which was used to reinforce those abandoned beliefs.
I liken it to convincing someone that their name is bob. Now, they may know that their name is phil, and they may understand that no expression of uncertainty with regards to their name is a genuine reflection of the state of their beliefs about their name - but they may still be compelled by any number of things to state that they just can't know that their name is phil..that they just can't rule out that their true name is bob.
It looks ridiculous from the outside, which is to say coming from people who were not indoctrinated into those beliefs, beliefs which include the impossibility of knowledge as an ideological defense of a knowledge claim - but it's a critical and self aware kind of ridiculousness. Win some lose some, I suppose.
-and before anyone goes apeshit, lol - it should be manifestly apparent that I'm just as much a product of the same thing, with all the usual doubts about things that were central to my own indoctrination as a member of a family with a worldview, and a society with expectations.
Same shit, different stuff.
I liken it to convincing someone that their name is bob. Now, they may know that their name is phil, and they may understand that no expression of uncertainty with regards to their name is a genuine reflection of the state of their beliefs about their name - but they may still be compelled by any number of things to state that they just can't know that their name is phil..that they just can't rule out that their true name is bob.
It looks ridiculous from the outside, which is to say coming from people who were not indoctrinated into those beliefs, beliefs which include the impossibility of knowledge as an ideological defense of a knowledge claim - but it's a critical and self aware kind of ridiculousness. Win some lose some, I suppose.
-and before anyone goes apeshit, lol - it should be manifestly apparent that I'm just as much a product of the same thing, with all the usual doubts about things that were central to my own indoctrination as a member of a family with a worldview, and a society with expectations.
Same shit, different stuff.
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