Tuesday, October 11, 2022

The persistence of opinions



How deep a dive into this topic is hard to say. Let's just call it speculation for the moment. The topic is what people associate with their identities. If it is what you believe to be true, and it gets associated with your own self image, it may be really hard to change your mind about it.

With respect to political matters, if one's identity is wrapped up in a political view, change may well become impossible. Hence you may get people who won't change their minds in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. Their opinions seem a bit ( shall we say) crazy. It's this identification with ones viewpoint that is at issue. If it isn't changeable at all, regardless of facts, then discussion may be useless. Or so I posit here.

It would seem that these beliefs can be somehow imprinted upon people at a young age. It is almost like in the animal kingdom. A young bird may imprint upon a human and identify more with humans than its own kind. Is that same kind of thing possible with people? I think it might. If you catch someone at a young enough age, you can affect their perceptions for a lifetime.

Something tells me that this has been well known for centuries. After all, Socrates was forced to drink the hemlock for "corrupting the morals of youth". (If memory serves, which it may not. This is a speculation, after all.) It isn't the only example, as there are others.

Thusly, how the young are educated is of prime importance to the state. It may well explain the efforts at teaching kids "CRT". It would not be well to underestimate the significance of this, if my theory is correct. A kid may be turned against his/her parents, community, and country in such a manner.

Once a kid gets indoctrinated with it, it won't be easy to change it, you see. This is precisely why they are so intent upon implementing it.

Likewise, it may be hard to understand why so many people these days seem impervious to facts. There may be a reason for that, and this is offered as a reason why it appears to be the case. I've wondered often why Brandon's numbers seem impervious to the obvious fact that he is an absolute disaster.

A possible cure would be something that can counter the programming. Good luck with that. If your brain is wired, so to speak, in the Marxist paradigm, it may take a traumatic event to break the spell. Hopefully, you won't have a glass of "Kool-aid" in your hands before you step back and ask why are you doing this?

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