False consciousness. An enumeration of false consciousness stories. Everyone in the world is deceived except you and your group. Usually contains a seed of truth, but overstates it and ignores/downplays contrary perspectives.
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Most ideologies develop a false consciousness narrative. It makes them feel special, like insiders, like they cracked the code, and now they are part of the secret club, the cool kids, not like all those heathen masses
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It may well be that this is part of why ideologies proliferate, they play on our desire for social struggle and advancement. Its pretty staggering to me that even universalizing ideologies become in practice about "us vs them".
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