Yes, of course! And you don't even have to be brain-washed; you just need to be perceptive enough.
Suppose- for the sake of the argument:
You have been fed Christianity- or some sort of ideology like Communism or Graeco-Roman Paganism or Democracy- all your life, you utterly believed in it when you were 2 years old, you believed it when you were 8, and now you are 12 and you still do. And some stupid ass teacher, who dresses like a moron, comes up to you and says: "Listen kid, your tribe's very basis of cultural unity is false".
Now your parents have already told you stories about how the Devil- or the Capitalists or the Communists or the Barbarians- approached people and made them doubt God- or their Nation or their Government- and how that is the wrong thing.
So, what's the first thought that comes up in your mind when you meet this teacher? "This is the work of the Devil- or the Capitalists or the Communists or the Barbarians!" In fact, this is the only thought that makes sense to you, and so you stick with it.
And once you have committed this mortal sin, once you have sold your soul to the "Power of the Group", you can never betray your cultural identity to anything else! Every time you see something that contradicts your beliefs, you say "It's the Devil- or the Capitalist or the Communist or the Barbarian! Why does it keep troubling me?"
Now suppose you get properly educated in your Culture's version of Learning(because you can't manage external heresies lacking a proper ideological basis) and achieve societal stability, any time you meet a 'deluded' person not sworn to your culture's identity, you want to salvage their- or rather their cultural- metaphysical immortality! And so you keep telling them that your Cultural basis is real and theirs isn't. But no matter what you do, they won't believe you, because they are possessed by the Capitalist or the Communist or the Barbarian.
And so, you never change, and continue to be an orthodox, faithful pillar of your community throughout your life.
See how everything up till now makes sense? How toppling a single domino causes the whole line to fall over. That is why children should be taught about Religion- or their culture's myths- until they are old enough to understand logic and see the reason themselves.
LOL! Never had so much fun answering a Quora question before.
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Suppose- for the sake of the argument:
You have been fed Christianity- or some sort of ideology like Communism or Graeco-Roman Paganism or Democracy- all your life, you utterly believed in it when you were 2 years old, you believed it when you were 8, and now you are 12 and you still do. And some stupid ass teacher, who dresses like a moron, comes up to you and says: "Listen kid, your tribe's very basis of cultural unity is false".
Now your parents have already told you stories about how the Devil- or the Capitalists or the Communists or the Barbarians- approached people and made them doubt God- or their Nation or their Government- and how that is the wrong thing.
So, what's the first thought that comes up in your mind when you meet this teacher? "This is the work of the Devil- or the Capitalists or the Communists or the Barbarians!" In fact, this is the only thought that makes sense to you, and so you stick with it.
And once you have committed this mortal sin, once you have sold your soul to the "Power of the Group", you can never betray your cultural identity to anything else! Every time you see something that contradicts your beliefs, you say "It's the Devil- or the Capitalist or the Communist or the Barbarian! Why does it keep troubling me?"
Now suppose you get properly educated in your Culture's version of Learning(because you can't manage external heresies lacking a proper ideological basis) and achieve societal stability, any time you meet a 'deluded' person not sworn to your culture's identity, you want to salvage their- or rather their cultural- metaphysical immortality! And so you keep telling them that your Cultural basis is real and theirs isn't. But no matter what you do, they won't believe you, because they are possessed by the Capitalist or the Communist or the Barbarian.
And so, you never change, and continue to be an orthodox, faithful pillar of your community throughout your life.
See how everything up till now makes sense? How toppling a single domino causes the whole line to fall over. That is why children should be taught about Religion- or their culture's myths- until they are old enough to understand logic and see the reason themselves.
LOL! Never had so much fun answering a Quora question before.
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Guys, I sincerely hope this is a joke.
First- 'Attribution' only comes into the picture when there's Plagiarism. I haven't plagiarized a Word. The only thing taken is the writing style- & you can't put a copy right on that. This is just harassment.
Second- Anudeep Ravi advised me to put in an accredition- which I did at 8:10 IST. Then I get a message at 8:55 IST accusing me of plagiarism.
Now, I do hope Quora isn't still using 56kbps Servers but even in that case, I cry foul. Restore my answer.
This answer should explicitly attribute and provide a link to the source of any content that was originally posted on other sources.
Which I have done.
Lengthy quotations from other sources must be placed in blockquotes.
I haven't used a single quotation. Every single line has been changed.
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Good point- but my last edits- including the credits- were nearly an hour before you guys collapsed this!
Writers must attribute sources and use blockquotes, even if an answer makes some changes/edits to the original material.
Makes no sense as I have already mentioned Pragy Agarwal's answer before anyone flagged this.
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